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George Santayana's Essay on Lucretius (1910) 29
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Background and Analysis: "Roman Poets of the Republic" by William Sellar (1881) 19
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Munro Translation of Lucretius 16
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Albert Einstein, "Foreword to Lucretius" 16
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The "Daily" Lucretian 16
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Was De Rerum Natura intended as satire? A lecture by THM Gellar-Goad. 14
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The Light Side of the Moon: A Lucretian Acrostic by Leah Kronenberg 14
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Best Lucretius translation? 12
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Readings From Lucretius In Latin 12
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The Garland of Tranquility and a Reposed Life 10
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Attempts to Identify the Translator of the Daniel Brown Edition 7
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Lucretius Book Study Group (SASA) 6
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Notable Quotations and the Reception of Lucretius 6
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The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 5
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The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 4
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Lucretius' Expressions of Epicurus' Atomoi 4
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The Wormwood Illustration In Lucretius 3
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Butterfield's "The Early Textual History of Lucretius" 3
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The End of the De Rerum Natura 3
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Leonardo and Lucretius (and De Rerum Natura in Italy) 2
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A Video Lecture Series on Lucretius By Monte Johnson 2
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Browsing in the closed stacks today... 2
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Sade's Lucretian Poem - "La Vérité" (The Truth), Translated w/ Article Attached 2
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Lucretius commentary in LATIN! 1
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Dicuil’s Liber de Astronomia and the Carolingian Reception of De Rerum Natura by Fabio Tutrone 1
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Good Article by Grzelak Highlighting the Ethical Components of "On The Nature of Things" - It's Not Just Physics! 1
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Lucretius in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
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De Rerum Natura Early Manuscript - codex oblongus
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De Rerum Nature - 6.3 vs. Modern Understanding of Lightning
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LUCRETIUS AND HIS DE RERUM NATURA SIX CENTURIES AFTER (Article/Interview - David Sedley)
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Anti-Natalism: The Opposite of Epicureanism 8
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Ecclesiastes what insights can we gleam from it? 4
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Grumphism? LOL
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