Lucretius: on the nature of things
(2016)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media : Made available through hoopla, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781787240117 (electronic bk.) MWT11792360, 1787240118 (electronic bk.) 11792360
LANGUAGE
English
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On the Nature of Things is an epic didactic poem aiming to explain Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles
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