On the Nature of the Universe

Lucretius
On the Nature of the Universe



Издательство: Oxford University Press
Жанр: Oxford University Press

Качество: Хорошее
Страниц: 320
Формат: pdf, fb2, epub

This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view.