Book of Donmon Teith

With a commentary giving proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry.

-- A brief biography of Lucretius -- History of materialist theory of the universe -- Detailed discussion of Lucretian originality and style -- Section on meter

Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of fr