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One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.

Lucretius´ poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not by gods; and that by believing this men can live in peace of mind and happiness. He bases this on the atomic theory expounded by the Greek philosopher Epicurus, and continues with an examination of sensation, sex, cosmology, meteorology, and geology, all of these subjects made more attractive by the poetry with which he illustrates them.

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"Stallings´s verse translation . . . actually transforms [this] recondite poem about cosmology and human nature into an intellectual page-turner." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

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Stallings, A. E.
A. E. Stallings is an American poet and translator. She has published three books of original verse, Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), and Olives (2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her verse translation of Lucretius´ The Nature of Things (2007) is published in Penguin Classics.

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