369 pages
French language
Published June 28, 1925 by Les Belles Lettres.
Titus Lucretius Carus: De rerum natura (French language, 1925, Les Belles Lettres)
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This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discovery of fire to the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms.
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- Lucretius Carus, Titus. -- Criticism and interpretation.