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Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Iii (aris And Phillips Classical Texts) (bk. 3) by Titus Lucretius Carus; P Michael Brown is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of freeing mankind from religious fears. The third book not only seeks to demonstrate that, since the soul is mortal, there can be noafter-life, but also aims to reconcile the reader to the prospect of the end of his consciousness. This edition incorporates a new text and prose translation and is designed to set the book in the context of the
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Titus Lucretius Carus; P Michael Brown
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips; Liverpool University Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780856686955
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Poetry, Religion, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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