Treasures of Lucretius, Selected Passages from the ‘De Rerum Natura’
Lucretius, Henry S. Salt (Translator)
- Publisher: Watts & Co., London
- Published: 1912
- Length: 64 pages
- Format: Hardback
Content
- Preface
- To Memmius
- Invocation of Venus
- The Curse of Superstition
- The Solace of Philosophy
- An Illusion of Distance
- A Cow Mourning for her Calf
- The War of the Atoms
- The Boundlessness of the Universe
- The World’s Decay
- Epicurus and the Fear of Death
- The Eternal Rest
- Spectres of the Dead
- Fantasies of Colour
- Cloud-Forms
- Echo
- The Pangs of Love
- In Praise of Epicurus
- Nature and the Gods
- The Procession of the Seasons
- Mother Earth
- The Humanising of Mankind
- The Worship of the Gods
