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  • 032 - Book VI Part 4 The Plague Athens

    032 - Book VI Part 4 The Plague Athens
    2026/02/13
    On the Nature of Things, penned by Titus Lucretius Carus in the first century BCE, stands as one of the most significant surviving works on Epicurean philosophy and science from antiquity. Rather than a mere academic treatise, the original Latin text (De Rerum Natura) unfolds as an exquisite poem in hexameter, lauded for its stylistic beauty that influenced later writers like Ovid and Cicero. The English verse translation by William Ellery Leonard, crafted in the early twentieth century, faithfully captures both the vocabulary and meter of Elizabethan poetry, alternating between pentameter and hexameter. Across its six untitled books, Lucretius explores a wide array of subjects, from the universes physical nature to the intricacies of the human mind and body, all while striving to illuminate the darkness of the mind created by superstition and ignorance. Through his enlightening verses, he invites us to uncover natures aspect, and her laws. (Summary by Daniel Vimont)
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    16 分
  • 031 - Book VI Part 3 Extraordinary and Paradoxical Telluric Phenomena

    031 - Book VI Part 3 Extraordinary and Paradoxical Telluric Phenomena
    2026/02/13
    On the Nature of Things, penned by Titus Lucretius Carus in the first century BCE, stands as one of the most significant surviving works on Epicurean philosophy and science from antiquity. Rather than a mere academic treatise, the original Latin text (De Rerum Natura) unfolds as an exquisite poem in hexameter, lauded for its stylistic beauty that influenced later writers like Ovid and Cicero. The English verse translation by William Ellery Leonard, crafted in the early twentieth century, faithfully captures both the vocabulary and meter of Elizabethan poetry, alternating between pentameter and hexameter. Across its six untitled books, Lucretius explores a wide array of subjects, from the universes physical nature to the intricacies of the human mind and body, all while striving to illuminate the darkness of the mind created by superstition and ignorance. Through his enlightening verses, he invites us to uncover natures aspect, and her laws. (Summary by Daniel Vimont)
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    46 分
  • 030 - Book VI Part 2 Great Meteorological Phenomena Etc

    030 - Book VI Part 2 Great Meteorological Phenomena Etc
    2026/02/13
    On the Nature of Things, penned by Titus Lucretius Carus in the first century BCE, stands as one of the most significant surviving works on Epicurean philosophy and science from antiquity. Rather than a mere academic treatise, the original Latin text (De Rerum Natura) unfolds as an exquisite poem in hexameter, lauded for its stylistic beauty that influenced later writers like Ovid and Cicero. The English verse translation by William Ellery Leonard, crafted in the early twentieth century, faithfully captures both the vocabulary and meter of Elizabethan poetry, alternating between pentameter and hexameter. Across its six untitled books, Lucretius explores a wide array of subjects, from the universes physical nature to the intricacies of the human mind and body, all while striving to illuminate the darkness of the mind created by superstition and ignorance. Through his enlightening verses, he invites us to uncover natures aspect, and her laws. (Summary by Daniel Vimont)
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    47 分
  • 029 - Book VI Part 1 Proem

    029 - Book VI Part 1 Proem
    2026/02/13
    On the Nature of Things, penned by Titus Lucretius Carus in the first century BCE, stands as one of the most significant surviving works on Epicurean philosophy and science from antiquity. Rather than a mere academic treatise, the original Latin text (De Rerum Natura) unfolds as an exquisite poem in hexameter, lauded for its stylistic beauty that influenced later writers like Ovid and Cicero. The English verse translation by William Ellery Leonard, crafted in the early twentieth century, faithfully captures both the vocabulary and meter of Elizabethan poetry, alternating between pentameter and hexameter. Across its six untitled books, Lucretius explores a wide array of subjects, from the universes physical nature to the intricacies of the human mind and body, all while striving to illuminate the darkness of the mind created by superstition and ignorance. Through his enlightening verses, he invites us to uncover natures aspect, and her laws. (Summary by Daniel Vimont)
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    9 分
  • 028 - Book V Part 7 Beginnings of Civilization

    028 - Book V Part 7 Beginnings of Civilization
    2026/02/13
    On the Nature of Things, penned by Titus Lucretius Carus in the first century BCE, stands as one of the most significant surviving works on Epicurean philosophy and science from antiquity. Rather than a mere academic treatise, the original Latin text (De Rerum Natura) unfolds as an exquisite poem in hexameter, lauded for its stylistic beauty that influenced later writers like Ovid and Cicero. The English verse translation by William Ellery Leonard, crafted in the early twentieth century, faithfully captures both the vocabulary and meter of Elizabethan poetry, alternating between pentameter and hexameter. Across its six untitled books, Lucretius explores a wide array of subjects, from the universes physical nature to the intricacies of the human mind and body, all while striving to illuminate the darkness of the mind created by superstition and ignorance. Through his enlightening verses, he invites us to uncover natures aspect, and her laws. (Summary by Daniel Vimont)
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    39 分
  • 027 - Book V Part 6 Origins and Savage Period of Mankind

    027 - Book V Part 6 Origins and Savage Period of Mankind
    2026/02/13
    On the Nature of Things, penned by Titus Lucretius Carus in the first century BCE, stands as one of the most significant surviving works on Epicurean philosophy and science from antiquity. Rather than a mere academic treatise, the original Latin text (De Rerum Natura) unfolds as an exquisite poem in hexameter, lauded for its stylistic beauty that influenced later writers like Ovid and Cicero. The English verse translation by William Ellery Leonard, crafted in the early twentieth century, faithfully captures both the vocabulary and meter of Elizabethan poetry, alternating between pentameter and hexameter. Across its six untitled books, Lucretius explores a wide array of subjects, from the universes physical nature to the intricacies of the human mind and body, all while striving to illuminate the darkness of the mind created by superstition and ignorance. Through his enlightening verses, he invites us to uncover natures aspect, and her laws. (Summary by Daniel Vimont)
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    8 分
  • 026 - Book V Part 5 Origins of Vegetable and Animal Life

    026 - Book V Part 5 Origins of Vegetable and Animal Life
    2026/02/13
    On the Nature of Things, penned by Titus Lucretius Carus in the first century BCE, stands as one of the most significant surviving works on Epicurean philosophy and science from antiquity. Rather than a mere academic treatise, the original Latin text (De Rerum Natura) unfolds as an exquisite poem in hexameter, lauded for its stylistic beauty that influenced later writers like Ovid and Cicero. The English verse translation by William Ellery Leonard, crafted in the early twentieth century, faithfully captures both the vocabulary and meter of Elizabethan poetry, alternating between pentameter and hexameter. Across its six untitled books, Lucretius explores a wide array of subjects, from the universes physical nature to the intricacies of the human mind and body, all while striving to illuminate the darkness of the mind created by superstition and ignorance. Through his enlightening verses, he invites us to uncover natures aspect, and her laws. (Summary by Daniel Vimont)
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    14 分
  • 025 - Book V Part 4 Formation of the World and Astronomical Questions

    025 - Book V Part 4 Formation of the World and Astronomical Questions
    2026/02/13
    On the Nature of Things, penned by Titus Lucretius Carus in the first century BCE, stands as one of the most significant surviving works on Epicurean philosophy and science from antiquity. Rather than a mere academic treatise, the original Latin text (De Rerum Natura) unfolds as an exquisite poem in hexameter, lauded for its stylistic beauty that influenced later writers like Ovid and Cicero. The English verse translation by William Ellery Leonard, crafted in the early twentieth century, faithfully captures both the vocabulary and meter of Elizabethan poetry, alternating between pentameter and hexameter. Across its six untitled books, Lucretius explores a wide array of subjects, from the universes physical nature to the intricacies of the human mind and body, all while striving to illuminate the darkness of the mind created by superstition and ignorance. Through his enlightening verses, he invites us to uncover natures aspect, and her laws. (Summary by Daniel Vimont)
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    32 分