Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things – one of the glories of Latin literature – provides a vivid poetic exposition of the
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Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De
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The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem
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Explores how Deleuze's thought was shaped by Lucretian atomism – a formative but often-ignored influence from ancie
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Consensus holds that Lucretius admired the literary prestige of Homeric epos, the form that Ennius famously introduced t
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This book is devoted to modern heavy tanks of the world. Here are the best models and tactical and technical specificati
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This volume contains a collection of papers on the philosophical and cultural background of Lucretius' De rerum nat
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This book represents the cutting edge of theoretical works on Confucianism. Starting from Confucianism’s comeback in mod
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