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When you encounter a young person, introduce them to Lucretius' De Rerum Natura...
... and now they possibly love it even more than you do 😍🥰
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☝️ Forming the First Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus 🤝, Caesar gained real power. But would the alliance hold or would it 🫨 crumble under its own weight?
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"In practice the text of #Lucretius rests upon two Leiden manuscripts [...] The older and better is O (Voss. Lat. F. 30)Offsite Link. It was written not long after 800 in the Palace School of Charlemagne. A contemporary corrector, using a distinctive insular hand, emended the text and in places filled up lacunae left by the orignal scribe. This hand has been recognized as that of Dungal" https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3217
More on the Irish scholar Dúngal https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26/dungal/
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Delighted to say that my essay on "Blake, Lucretius and Prophecy: 'The Book of Los'" has just appeared in the "Blake Quarterly"...
Here is the last of the new Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Lucretius' work On The Nature of Things, this one looking at his interpretation of Epicurus' "death is nothing to us"
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things-death-as-nothing-to-us
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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and poet Lucretius' poem On The Nature of Things (De rerum natura), book 4, which presents an Epicurean viewpoint on a number of matters.