On the Nature of Things
(Paperback)
Available Formats
Hardback
Published: 1st September 2001
Paperback
Published: 1st September 2001
Paperback
Published: 1st February 2002
Publishing Details
On the Nature of Things
By (Author) Lucretius
Translated by Martin Ferguson Smith
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
1st September 2001
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Poetry by individual poets
871.01
Physical Properties
Paperback
262
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
227g
Description
Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura -- long out of print -- is virtually unknown. Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography. Martin Ferguson Smith is Professor of Classics Emeritus, Univ. of Durham, United Kingdom. Among his scholarly achievements are his revisions of the Rouse translation of De Rerum Natura for the Loeb Classical Library.
Reviews
"In Smith's translation, the annotations are particularly helpful providing a wealth of supplementary information..." -- Practical Philosophy, Spring 2003.
Author Bio
Lucretius; Translated by Martin Ferguson Smith
