Lucretius entire
The complete De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus — the six-book Epicurean poem on the nature of things: atoms and void, mortal soul, and a universe with no gods to fear — translated in a single voice, with the Latin facing every line. A glossary of every name and a cross-reference index sit alongside.
What makes this different
A few things, taken together, set this edition apart. Click any to expand.
The whole poem, one sustained voice.
De Rerum Natura by one hand under a single style guide, so its six books read as the one continuous argument they are — few complete editions give it in a consistent modern voice.
Built to be navigated.
The single long poem set to the standard book-and-line numbering with a parallel Latin toggle, so any passage is findable instead of a wall of verse.
A real glossary.
Every named god, person, place and technical term — atoms, void, the swerve — defined and cross-referenced, which plain editions omit.
From the Latin.
Read from Lucretius's Latin directly, not adapted from a prior English version. The text comes from open scholarly sources.
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