Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III
Lucretius
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The third book of Lucretius' great poem on the workings of the universe is devoted entirely to expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter, 'is nothing to us'. The soul is not immortal: it no more exists after the dissolution of the body than it had done before its birth. Only if this fact is accepted can men rid themselves of irrational fears and achieve the state of ataraxia, freedom from mental disturbance, on which the Epicurean definition of pleasure was based. To present this case Lucretius deploys the full range of poetic and rhetorical registers, ... Read more
The third book of Lucretius' great poem on the workings of the universe is devoted entirely to expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter, 'is nothing to us'. The soul is not immortal: it no more exists after the dissolution of the body than it had done before its birth. Only if this fact is accepted can men rid themselves of irrational fears and achieve the state of ataraxia, freedom from mental disturbance, on which the Epicurean definition of pleasure was based. To present this case Lucretius deploys the full range of poetic and rhetorical registers, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521173896
SKU
V9780521173896
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About Lucretius
E. J. Kenney is Professor Emeritus of Latin at the University of Cambridge.
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