About this edition

A complete edition of the surviving works of Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99–c. 55 BC), translated in a single voice with the Latin alongside.

What's here

The whole of the De Rerum Natura — six books — translated from the Latin and presented in order, with a headnote, an optional Latin-parallel toggle, and an apparatus of named-entity glossary and cross-references linking the argument to itself and to its sources.

From the Latin

Every translation was produced by reading the Latin text directly, not by copying or adapting any prior edition. The Latin comes from open scholarly sources.

How to use this

The Works index opens the poem; the chronology places Lucretius's life and the poem on a timeline. The glossary is the named-entity registry — every person, place, and deity the poem names. Search spans the whole corpus.

Citation and reuse

The translation, the headnotes, and the editorial apparatus are released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — share and adapt with attribution, non-commercial use only, derivatives under the same licence.

Status

1 work translated in this language.