Treasures of Lucretius, Selected Passages from the 'De Rerum Natura'

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