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The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics) by Titus Lucretius Carus, Alicia Stallings, Richard Jenkyns is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not by gods; and that by believing this men can live in peace of mind and happiness. He bases this on the atomic theory expounded by the Greek philosopher Epicurus, and continues with an examination of sensation, sex, cosmology, meteorology, and geology, all of these subjects made more attractive by the poetry with which he illustrates them.
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Titus Lucretius Carus, Alicia Stallings, Richard Jenkyns
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141915371
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (414 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics) (1994)
- Lucretius: The Nature of Things (2010)
- Lucreti de Rerum Natura: Libri Sex (1974)
- On the Nature of Things (1977)
- On the Nature of Things, Translated by Martin Ferguson Smith (Hackett Classics Series) (2011)
- Von der Natur der Dinge (1822)
- The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics) (2015)
- On the Nature of Things, Translated by Martin Ferguson Smith (Hackett Classics Series) (2001)
- On the Nature of Things (Great Books in Philosophy) (1997)
- طبيعة الأشياء [Arabic] (2007)
- On the Nature of the Universe (Oxford World's Classics) (1997)
- Lucretius: De rerum natura V (1985)
- On the Nature of the Universe (Oxford World's Classics) (2008)
- The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics) (2014)
- Lucretius · On the Nature of Things (1977)
- On the Nature of the Universe (Oxford World's Classics) (1999)
- On the nature of things = De rerum natura (1995)
- The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics) (1977)
- On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics) (2005)
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