Titled De rerum natura in Latin, On the Nature of Things, written
by Titus Lucretius Carus and translated by John Selby Watson, is an
epic poem and philosophical essay in one. Written with the intent
of explaining Epicurean philosophy to the Romans, the original poem
was divided into six books and written in dactylic hexameter. The
overarching principle in the book explains the human role in a
universe ruled by chance. Notable is the absence of the gods the
Romans depended upon; though LUCRETIUS invokes the goddess Venus in
the poem's opening lines, he uses her merely as an allegory for
sexual and reproductive power. Other themes throughout the poem
include the nature of the soul and mind, why we sense and feel and
think, principles of the void and atomism, the creation and
evolution of the world, and celestial and terrestrial phenomena
(and their differences). It tries to explain human life and purpose
in a nutshell, or the nature of the Universe--a way for people to
cope and understand in a confused and terrifying world. TITUS
LUCRETIUS CARUS (c. 99 BC - 55 Be was a Roman philosopher and poet.
Very little is known about his life, and his only known work is the
epic poem on Epicurean philosophy, On the Nature of Things. He
dedicated the work to the famous Roman orator and poet Gaius
Memmius, who may have been a friend, and it is thought that he may
have died before he finished editing the poem, as it ends rather
abruptly. The book's translator, JOHN SELBY WATSON (1804-1884), was
a British translator and writer, convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment for murdering his wife in 1872.
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