Author: William Ellery Leonard
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: sex, libri, natura, rerum
Number of Pages: 896
Published: 1942-10-15
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0299003620
ISBN-13: 9780299003623
The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius is a sustained and impassioned protest against religious superstition and irrationality. The poem takes the form of a detailed exposition of Epicurean physical theory - an extreme materialism designed to remove and discredit popular fears of the gods, death and an afterlife. Book III is generally accepted to be the finest in the whole poem; Lucretius argues there that the soul is as mortal as the body and shows that human response to the fact of mortality and death can be at once rational, dignified and liberating. Professor Kenney’s commentary is the fir
Author: Ammianus Marcellinus
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: supe, qui, libri, gestarum, rerum
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3519019779
ISBN-13: 9783519019770
Author: Huub Van de Sandt
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: novum, testamentum, iudaicarum, rerum, compendia, didache
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 0800634713
ISBN-13: 9780800634711
Author: Historische Kommission
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: geschichts, quellen, sterreichische, austriacarum, rerum, fontes
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $37.75
ISBN-10: 0559706707
ISBN-13: 9780559706707
Authors:Mark Musa, Francesco Petrarca, Barbara Manfredi,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: fragmenta, vulgarium, rerum, canzoniere, petrarch
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0253213177
ISBN-13: 9780253213174
"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch’s Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet’s own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied by brief but useful notes... " -- Chronicles"As well as skillful and fluent verse renderings of the 366 lyrics that make up this milestone in the development of Western poetic tradition, Musa offers copious and up-to-date annotation
Authors:H. Schreckenberg, K. Schubert,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: iudicarum, novum, testamentum, vol, rerum, compendia, traditions, christian, literature, jewish
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $61.00
ISBN-10: 9023226534
ISBN-13: 9789023226536
Author: Lucretius
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: palevsky, imprint, classical, literature, joan, translation, natura, nature, things, poetic, rerum
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-08-06
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0520254252
ISBN-13: 9780520254251
This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. De Rerum Natura is Lucretius’s majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology in an epic that unfolds over the course of six books. This sumptuous account of a secular cosmos argues that the soul is mortal, that pleasure is the object of life, and that humanity has free will, among other ideas. Renowned author, translator, and poet David R. Slavitt has captured Lucretius’s elegance as well as his philosophical profundity in this highly
