A Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura

A Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
Publisher: Lexington Books
Authors: Lee Fratantuono
Published on: 2015-06-03
Page Count: 519 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: Philosophy
Maturity Rating: NOT_MATURE
Language: en
Embeddable: Yes
PDF Available: Yes
EPUB Available: Yes
ISBN-13: 9781498511551
ISBN-10: 1498511554
... body;287 from riding a horse we have advanced in four lines to the ghastly horror of attaching farming implements to weapons of war—a terrible perversion of the arts of the field—and a hybrid ... insanity.289 Early in human history, man had ...

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