CONTENTS
Preface
INTRODUCTION
PARALLEL LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY
Bibliography and abbreviations
Glossary
Index
The purpose of this edition is to demonstrate the quality
and interest of book VI: the intellectual curiosity of the analyst
of earthquakes, volcanoes and marvellous phenomena, the rhetorical
and philosophical powers of a thinker who wants to make his interpretation
of Epicureanism both cogent and vivid, the deep humane compassion
of the chronicler of the Plague at Athens, the sheer brilliance
of the poet whose verse inspired all later writers in the tradition.
This edition of the book is designed to make the poem accessible
to readers who have not picked up Lucretius before and so the
background has been treated as fully as possible in the permitted
space.
John Godwin is the head of classics at Shrewsbury School and the editor of Lucretius De Rerum Natura IV in this series.
208pp. (1991) cl 499 6 £35 / $59.99, pb 500 3 £16.50 / $28
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PARALLEL LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Bibliography and abbreviations |
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