On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)
Author: first_name: Titus Lucretius
last_name: Carus
Language: English
Year: 1916

On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers, the original Latin version (entitled <em>De Rerum Natura</em>) was written in the form of an extended poem in hexameter, with a beauty of style that was admired and emulated by his successors, including Ovid and Cicero. The version read here is an Eng