No heroes, no gods, no battles, no epic speeches. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic epic poem of some 7,500 lines, written entirely to promote the abstract philosophy of Epicureanism. Lucretius was a Roman poet and philosopher who lived from about 99 to about 55 BC. (Book V, lines 1,140 and 1,141) Titus Lucretius Carus What once was too-much-feared becomes in time Sometimes slipping in slangy phrases for the hell of it: Sometimes like the guy sitting next to you at the bar: Wheel in their courses, and what impulse moves It has an attractive variety of tones, from the lofty and heroic to the accessible and demotic, sometimes sounding like Milton: Fluent, full of force and vigour, it captures not only the argumentative, didactic nature of the poem but dresses it in consistently fine phrasing. This is a hugely enjoyable translation of Lucretius’s epic poem De rerum natura which literally translates as ‘On the nature of things’.
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