Lucretius On the Nature of the Universe Издательство: Oxford University Press Жанр: Oxford University Press Качество: Хорошее Страниц: 320 Формат: pdf, fb2, epub This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view.