![]() Peter Knox, editor of Oxford Readings in Ovid Leonard’s passionate introduction is a signal milestone in the history of the poem’s reception, while the notes in Smith’s commentary are a helpful guide to interpretation.” “For students approaching Lucretius this remains the only commentary in English on the entire work in one volume. It features an introduction to Lucretius’s life and work by William Ellery Leonard, an introduction to and commentary on the poem by Stanley Barney Smith, the complete Latin text with detailed annotations, and an index of ancient sources. Now available in paperback, this annotated scholarly edition of the Latin text of De Rerum Natura has long been hailed as one of the finest editions of this monumental work. ![]() In it, he set out to explicate the universe, embracing and refuting ideas of the great Greek philosophers. C.) is known primarily as the Roman author of the long didactic poem De Rerum Natura ( On the Nature of Things). Paul Friedländer, American Journal of Philology (1945) ![]() “A volume which no student of Lucretius, of the classics, of philosophic literature can afford to ignore.” ![]() UW Press - : De Rerum Natura The Latin Text of Lucretius Edited by William Ellery Leonard and Stanley Barney SmitĮdited by William Ellery Leonard and Stanley Barney Smith ![]()
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