CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PARALLEL LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY
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Index
Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration,
attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes
with the object of freeing mankind from religious fears. The third
book not only seeks to demonstrate that, since the soul is mortal,
there can be no after-life, but also aims to reconcile the reader
to the prospect of the end of his consciousness. This edition
incorporates a new text and prose translation and is designed
to set the book in the context of the whole poem and of the Epicurean
philosophical system, to explain and elucidate its argument, and
at the same time to analyse some of the literary and artistic
features which contribute to Lucretius' poetic achievement and
stature.
P. Michael Brown is a former lecturer and now Honorary Research fellow of the Department of Classics, University of Glasgow. He is the editor of Horace Satires I in this series and has also edited Lucretius I.
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