place
Athens
also: Cecropia, city of Pandion
The chief city of Attica. In the proem to Book 6 Lucretius hails it as the first to give mortals grain and laws and as the home of Epicurus; it is also the scene of the great plague that closes the poem.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §6.1 Athens
Athens, chief city of Attica; in Lucretius's reckoning the first state to give mortals grain and law, and the home of Epicurus. It is also the city of the closing plague.