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On The Nature Of Things
Lucretius

On The Nature Of Things

Encyclopaedia Britannica (Jun 28, 1952)
9781595478900
| Hardcover
232 pages
Dewey 808.8 GRE Vol 12

Genre

  • Non-Fiction

Subject

  • Fiction
  • See Great Books Vol 12

Plot

On the Nature of Things (Latin: De rerum natura) is a first century BC epic poem by Lucretius that grandly proclaims the reality of man's role in a universe without a god to help him along. It is a statement of personal responsibility in a world in which everyone is driven by hungers and passions with which they were born and do not understand.