On the Nature of the Universe
- List Price: $13.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/1999
Description:
This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view.
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