Lucretius

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: WORK

• De rerum natura, didactic poem on Epicurean philosophy in six books (On the Nature of Things).

Editio princeps

• Brescia, ca. 1473.

Standard edition

• Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex, 3 volumes, edited, with translation and commentary, by C. Bailey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947, 1950).

Translations in English

• Lucretius: On the Nature of Things, translated by Cyril Bailey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910); Of the Nature of Things: A Metrical Translation, translated by William Ellery Leonard (London: Dent / New York: Dutton, 1916); The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus, translated by Rolfe Humphries (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968); On the Nature of Things, translated, with an introduction, by Martin Ferguson Smith (London: Sphere, 1969); Lucretius: About Reality, translated by Phillip F. Wooby (New York: Philosophical Library, 1973); On the Nature of Things: De Rerum Natura, translated by Palmer Bovie (New York: New American Library, 1974); De Rerum Natura, edited and translated by W. H. D. Rouse, revision and new text, introduction, notes, and index by Martin Ferguson Smith, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975); The Nature of Things, translated by Frank O. Copley (New York: Norton, 1977); On the Nature of the Universe, translated by R. E. Latham, revised, with an introduction and notes, by John Godwin (London and New York: Penguin, 1994); On the Nature of Things, edited and translated by Anthony M. Esolen (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995); Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, edited by Hugh de Quehen (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996); On the Nature of Things, translated by John Selby Watson (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1997); On the Nature of the Universe, translated by Sir Ronald Melville, with an introduction and explanatory notes by Don P. and Peta G. Fowler (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Commentaries

• H. A. J. Munro, T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex, 3 volumes, fourth revised edition (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell / London: Bell, 1886); William Augustus Merrill, T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex (New York: American Book, 1907); William Ellery Leonard and Stanley Barney Smith, T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1942); Cyril Bailey, Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex, 3 volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947, 1950); E. J. Kenney, Lucretius: De Rerum Natura, Book III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971); C. D. N. Costa, Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1984); John Godwin, Lucretius: De Rerum Natura IV (Warminster, U.K.: Aris & Phillips, 1986); Robert D. Brown, Lucretius On Love and Sex: A Commentary on De Rerum Natura IV. 1030-1287 (Leiden: Brill, 1987).