• On the Nature of Things

On the Nature of Things

by Titus Lucretius Carus

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On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers, the original Latin version (entitled De Rerum Natura) was written in the form of an extended poem in hexameter, with a beauty of style that was admired and emulated by his successors, including Ovid and Cicero. The version read here is an English verse translation written by William Ellery Leonard. Although Leonard penned his version in the early twentieth century, he chose to adhere to both the vocabulary and meter (alternating between pentameter and hexameter) of Elizabethan-era poetry. (Summary by Daniel Vimont)

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  • 00 - Preface and Remarks on the life and poem of Lucretius
  • 01 - Book I, pt 1 - Invocation and Dedication of the poem. Prais
  • 02 - Book I, pt 2 - Time doesn't have a real existence. Atoms ar
  • 03 - Book 1, pt 3 - Attack on the theory of Anaxagoras. The univ
  • 04 - Book 2, pt 1 - Praise of philosophy. Properties of the atom
  • 05 - Book 2, pt 2 - Attack on those who refuse the theories of E
  • 06 - Book 2, pt 3 - Compound bodies contain atoms of different f
  • 07 - Book 3, pt 1 - Eulogy of Epicurus. Denial of divine power o
  • 08 - Book 3, pt 2 - The substance of the mind and the soul. The
  • 09 - Book 3, pt 3 - Death is the end of man, and nothing should
  • 10 - Book 4, pt 1 - Theory of image. Vision is produced by the i
  • 11 - Book 4, pt 2 - Other senses: sound, taste and odor. Imagina
  • 12 - Book 4, pt 3 - Motion in animals and motion in images. Slee
  • 13 - Book 5, pt 1 - Praise of Epicurus. The world is not eternal
  • 14 - Book 5, pt 2 - Cosmogony according to Epicurus. Causes of t
  • 15 - Book 5, pt 3 - The rudeness of the early life of men. The i
  • 16 - Book 6, pt 1 - Panegyric on Athens. Meteoric appearances in
  • 17 - Book 6, pt. 2 - Origin of water-spouts, clouds, rain, rainb
  • 18 - Book 6, pt. 3 - About the temperature of waters. About magn

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