![]() ![]() The overall argument of the poem is to present and defend the natural philosophy of the Epicurean philosophical school. The poem consists of about 7400 lines of Latin hexameter, and is divided into six books. We know little about the author, and the securest dating of the poem derives from a reference to it in a letter of Cicero it was probably first published in around 55 BC. It is a work plump with fascinating scientific theories, and one with interesting and influential philosophical ideas also it is, arguably, the latter that account for much of its continuing appeal. ![]() Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura is one of the great epic poems of the ancient world, and, as is claimed in this volume’s introduction, “perhaps the greatest didactic poem ever written in any language”. The great design and pattern of its making.” To expound my doctrine and as it were to touch itĬan hold your mind, while you attempt to grasp Translated from the Latin by Ronald Melville ![]()
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