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Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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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, soberly prohibitive, artfully decorative or passionately
emotive as best suits his argument, reinforcing it with vivid and
compelling imagery. This new edition has been completely revised,
with a considerably enlarged Commentary and a new supplementary
introduction taking account of the great amount of new scholarship
of the last forty years.
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