On the Nature of the Universe

On the Nature of the Universe

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Author/Contributor(s): Lucretius ; Melville, Ronald ; Fowler, Don ; Fowler, Peta
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date: 02/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view.

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