Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Book V

For a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much material of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance. This is true, above all, of the fifth book, which begins by building a strong case against what has recently become called 'intelligent design, ' and ends with an account of human evolution and the development of society.

Monica R Gale is Associate Professor in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. She is the author of Myth and Poetry in Lucretius; Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, and other books and articles on the poetry of the late Roman Republic and the Augustan period.

List of Illustrations	p. iv
Preface	p. v
Abbreviations	p. vii
Introduction
Lucretius and the Late Republic	p. 1
Epicurus and his Philosophy	p. 4
The Didactic Epic	p. 8
De Rerum Natura V: Cosmology and Human Prehistory	p. 10
Language and Style	p. 12
The Transmission of the Text	p. 13
Note on references to the Presocratic Philosophers	p. 15
De Rerum Natura V	p. 17
Commentary	p. 109
Bibliography	p. 217
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