Lucretius III : a history of motion.

Lucretius III : a history of motion.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	NAIL, THOMAS.
Imprint:	[S.l.] : EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS, 2022.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Lucretius Carus, Titus. -- De rerum natura. Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Criticism and interpretation. Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13914772

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ISBN:	9781474494984 1474494986 1474464238 9781474464239 1474464246 9781474464246 9781474494991 1474494994
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	A guidebook to living in a world that's destined to die, through a new reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.
Other form:	Print version: 9781474494991 Print version: 1474464238 9781474464239 1474464246 9781474464246
Standard no.:	10.1515/9781474494984

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
A Note on the Translation and Text
Acknowledgements
Preface: Death in the Time of Covid
Introduction: The Birth of Death
Book V
1. Making History
2. The Birth of the World
3. The Death of the World
4. It's a Turbulent Whirled
5. Evolutionary Materialism
6. A Brief History of Language
7. Eros and Civilisation
Book VI
8. A Hymn to Ruin
9. As Above, So Below
10. Of Poisons and Plagues
Conclusion: Unmaking History
Afterword
Index