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The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius is a sustained and impassioned protest against religious superstition and irrationality. The poem takes the form of a detailed exposition of Epicurean physical theory - an extreme materialism designed to remove and discredit popular fears of the gods, death and an afterlife. Book III is generally accepted to be the finest in the whole poem; Lucretius argues there that the soul is as mortal as the body and shows that human response to the fact of mortality and death can be at once rational, dignified and liberating. Professor Kenney's commentary is the first to give proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry; it can be read with profit by all students of Latin from senior school level upwards.

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Lucretius Carus, Titus. --- Lucretius Carus, Titus --- Lukrecjusz Karus, Tytus --- Lukret︠s︡iĭ Kar, Tit --- Lucrezio, Tito --- Lucrèce --- Lucrez --- Lucrecio Caro, T. --- Caro, T. Lucrecio --- Carus, Titus Lucretius --- Lucretius --- Lucrezio Caro, Tito --- Lucrecio --- Lucreti Cari, T. --- Lucreci --- לוקרציוס קרוס, טיטוס --- Lucrèce --- Lukrez --- Lucretius Carus, Titus. - De rerum natura. - Book 2. - Lines 1-332.

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"The edition offers a new critical text of De rerum natura. It has been established after fresh collation of the manuscripts and a critical evaluation of previous editorial scholarship. It is equipped with a critical apparatus, an apparatus of sources and an apparatus of repeated lines. The preface discusses the manuscript tradition of Lucretius and the way the text and apparatuses have been constructed."--

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