De La Nature, Traduction Nouvelle
- Authors
- Lucretius Carus, Titus
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. (Great Britain)
- Tags
- science , philosophy , history , poetry , classics
- Date
- 1928-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.32 MB
- Lang
- fr
Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
According to Lucretius's frequent statements in his poem, the main purpose of the work was to free Gaius Memmius's mind of the supernatural and the fear of death. He attempts this by expounding the philosophical system of Epicurus, whom Lucretius glorifies as the hero of his epic poem.