Lucretius and the Modern World (Classical Inter/Faces) (Classical Inter/faces)
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780715628829
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Fiction; Philosophy; Latin; Literary Criticism; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Poetry / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; General; Literary
First sentence: St Jerome tells us that Lucretius was born in the year 94 BCE; that a love potion rendered him insane; that he wrote his poem in random moments of sanity; that Cicero edited (or maybe proofread) the manuscript he left behind when he committed suicide at the age of forty-four.