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On the Nature of the Universe
On the Nature of the Universe
- ISBN 13:
9780192817617
- ISBN 10:
0192817612
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 06/10/1999
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a 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.
