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Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

By Lucretius

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The third book of Lucretius' great poem on the workings of the universe is devoted entirely to expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter, 'is nothing to us'. The soul is not immortal: it no more exists after the dissolution of the body than it had done before its birth. Only if this fact is accepted can men rid themselves of irrational fears and achieve the state of ataraxia, freedom from mental disturbance, on which the Epicurean definition of pleasure was based...Show more

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9780521173896

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Cambridge University Press

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2014

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Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

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