Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III, 2nd Edition eBook

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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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Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III 2nd Edition is written by Lucretius and published by Cambridge University Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III are 9781316053454, 1316053458 and the print ISBNs are 9781107002111, 1107002117. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780521173896.