The Nature of Things (Penguin Pocket Hardbacks) (Dover Philosophical Classics) (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)

by Lucretius

Frank O Copley (Translator)

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This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence and helped shape the modern world.
  • ISBN10 0393090949
  • ISBN13 9780393090949
  • Publish Date 12 January 1998 (first published 17 December 1977)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 208
  • Language English