Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe
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Жанр: Oxford University Press
Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2010
This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view.