Nature of Things - Couverture souple

Lucretius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393090949 ISBN 13 : 9780393090949

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1977

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Titus Lucretius Carus--Lucretius--was a Roman poet and philosopher (ca. 99 BC - ca. 55 BC). His only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things.

Frank O. Copley was a preeminent translator of Latin. His publications include Catallus: The Complete Poetry; Plautus: Menaechmi, Mostellaria, Rudens; Vergil: The Aeneid and Lucretius's On the Nature of Things.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 1977
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393090949
• ISBN 13: 9780393090949
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne