10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LUCRETIUS»
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Lucretius in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Lucretius and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed the course of history.
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The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus
Lucretius Carus
"... [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and proselytizing fervour.' —The Classical Review
Titus Lucretius Carus, 1968
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The Return of
Lucretius to Renaissance Florence
Brown demonstrates how Florentine thinkers used Lucretius—earlier and more widely than has been supposed—to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies.
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Lucretius on the Nature of Things
Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 BCE) was a Roman poet and philosopher whose only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things
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Lucretius: Poet and Epicurean
Drawing on the philosophical teachings of Epicurus, Lucretius seeks to answer these and other big questions in his masterful poem 'On the nature of things'. This book offers a selection of key passages from the poem.
In this short book John Godwin explains Lucretius' great work in its Roman context, assessing the literary and philosophical value of the poem and arguing the merits of the poet's claim to change our lives.
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The Cambridge Companion to
Lucretius
Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity.
Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie, 2007
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Myth and Poetry in
Lucretius
This book will be of interest to all classical scholars but especially to those concerned with Lucretius and with ancient philosophy.
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Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom
This book is designed to appeal both to those interested in Roman poetry and to specialists in ancient philosophy.
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De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things): A Poetic Translation
"De Rerum Natura "is Lucretius's majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology in an epic that unfolds over the course of six books.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LUCRETIUS»
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Teenagers studying the poems of Catullus' contemporary, Lucretius, would likely recognize his description of a French kiss: “They grip, they ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
Poem of the Week by William C. Connolly
Lucretius, Ethereal Fires. Memory is now a mystery to me. As dreams have been. As memories seem to be dreams. As remembered faces seem ... «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
Reflection for the Day
Nil posse creari de nilo. (Nothing can be created from nothing.) Lucretius. WWW.REFLECTIONFORTHEDAY.COM Copyright © 2015 Tom ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
Our Founders, alien-obsessed: Adams and Franklin had a thing …
The Roman poet Lucretius committed Epicurus' cosmic vision to verse in his ancient bestseller, “On the Nature of Things,” which then slipped ... «Salon, Jul 15»
The Classical Education of the Founding Fathers; Was Greek Almost …
Even before he entered, however, he had already read Vergil, Horace, Justinian, Nepos, Caesar, Tacitus, Lucretius, Eutropius, Phaedrus, ... «The Pappas Post, Jul 15»
Anthony Doerr: By the Book
That said, if Lucretius or Pliny the Elder or Livy were transported to 2015 and set up comfortably in an apartment in, I don't know, Tampa, and ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Is Pope Francis the World's Most Powerful Transhumanist?
Lines like these reminded me of the poetry of Walt Whitman, or perhaps better even that most eloquent atheist Lucretius. And there are points in ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Jun 15»
Religion, ecology and academia
... many a scholar would consider the matter settled by the Roman poet Lucretius, who wrote that "religion has led to such a mass of evils..."). «The Economist, Jun 15»
The Worm at the Core, review: 'remarkably upbeat'
Or we can think as Lucretius did: “Why not depart from life as a sated guest from a feast?” As I reached the final pages, I was feeling remarkably ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
