Lucretius on Death and Anxiety: Poetry and Philosophy in DE RERUM NATURA

Charles Segal

Lucretius on Death and Anxiety: Poetry and Philosophy in DE RERUM NATURA
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
292
ISBN
9780691631479

Lucretius on Death and Anxiety: Poetry and Philosophy in DE RERUM NATURA

Charles Segal

In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in

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