On the Nature of Things (UK Edition)

by Lucretius Carus, Titus; Smith, Martin Ferguson

• ISBN13: 9780872205871
• ISBN10: 0872205878
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura -- long out of print -- is virtually unknown. Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography. Martin Ferguson Smith is Professor of Classics Emeritus, Univ. of Durham, United Kingdom. Among his scholarly achievements are his revisions of the Rouse translation of De Rerum Natura for the Loeb Classical Library.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Introduction	vii
Lucretius	vii
On the Nature of Things	x
Epicurus and Epicureanism	xviii
The Structure of Lucretius' Poem	xxxi
Suggestions for Further Reading	xxxv
Abbreviations and Conventions	xxxviii
On the Nature of Things	1	(211)
Book One	1	(33)
Book Two	34	(32)
Book Three	66	(33)
Book Four	99	(36)
Book Five	135	(42)
Book Six	177	(35)
Index	212