On the Nature of the Universe

This is a verse translation of Lucretius' only known work, "On the Nature of the Universe", a didactic poem in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor should be helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view.

Product details

• Authors: Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus, Titus Lucretius Lucretius Carus, Ronald Melville
• Assisted by: Don Fowler (Introduction), Peta Fowler (Introduction), Ronald Melville (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.1997
• EAN: 9780198150978
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815097-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies