Lucretius: The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus

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Indiana University Press, Jan 22, 1968 - History - 255 pages
"Mr. Humphries' admirable and exciting translation makes it easy to grasp the shape and the magnitude of Lucretius' conception. It is a formidable task to put 7,500 Latin hexameter lines into English verse, but Mr. Humphries' easy, varied lines are thoroughly readable. (His) greatest success is in persuading the reader to see the poem as a whole, as a single, strange work of art, in which the mind of the natural philosopher is one with the mind of the poet." David Furley, The New York Times Book Review.

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Contents

A Foreword by the Translator
7
Text of the Poem
18
Synopses and Notes
237
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