A universe speckled with infinite worlds that are born, flourish, and die; a theory of evolution that anticipates Darwin, a theology that traces the delusion About God, indoctrinates humanity into the carefree bliss of gods who neither punish nor reward, and celebrates the mortality of the soul. An encouragement for sex without romantic admixtures, a Happiness Guide that disdains metaphysical consolations.
Can these issues give rise to great poetry? The answer is given by the Roman Lucretius, the most faithful of Epicurus’s materialistic and therapeutic philosophy, in De Rerum Natura, written in the 1st century BC.
The metrical translation of the epic is accompanied by an extensive study on Lucretius’s persistent presence in the Christian Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment up to the gurus of postmodernity and the activism of the second decade of the 21st century – and from Machiavelli and Voltaire to Palamas and Karyotakis.
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Product Details
- Author
- Titus Carus Lucretius
- Publisher
- Gutenberg
- Subtitle
- The Legacy of a Persistent Gardener
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789600122077
Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 643
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- Release Date
- 01/03/2021
- Publication Date
- 2021
Content
- Philosophical Movement/School
- Enlightenment
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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