This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. With a new introduction and commentary and a revised translation, this edition acknowledges advances in textual research and also provides more background information for the reader. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discovery of fire to the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms.
- ISBN10 0140446109
- ISBN13 9780140446104
- Publish Date 26 May 1994 (first published 1 December 1965)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 8 August 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 336
- Language English