by Titus Lucretius Carus · Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253067580
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«De la nature des choses» is Lucretius's philosophical poem, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback format (695 pages, in French).
Didactic poem in which Lucretius expounds Epicurean philosophy: reality is composed of atoms in motion and natural phenomena have material causes. The work seeks to free human beings from fear of the gods and death, and combines doctrinal exposition with literary and persuasive ambition.
The original title is De rerum natura. This 2002 edition includes the text in French and Latin, with a translation by Bernard Pautrat and introduction, bibliography and notes by Alain Gigandet.
For readers interested in ancient philosophy, Latin poetry and Epicurean thought.
Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. Very little is known about Lucretius's life; the only certainty is that he was either a friend or client of Gaius Memmius, to whom the poem was addressed and dedicated. De rerum natura was a considerable influence on the Augustan poets, particularly Virgil and Horace. The work was almost lost during the Middle Ages, but was rediscovered in 1417 in a monastery in Germany by Poggio Bracciolini. It played an important role both in the development of atomism and the efforts of various figures of the Enlightenment era to construct a new Christian humanism.
