• 导读
  • This book was a considerable influence on the Augustan poets, particularly Virgil (in his Aeneid and Georgics, and to a lesser extent on the Satires and Eclogues) and Horace, and it played an important role both in the development of atomism

  • 内容简介
  • 《物性论》是卢克莱修的唯一传世作品。该诗集分6卷,用抑扬六步格写成,其内容主要是阐明伊壁鸠鲁的哲学,尤其是原子论学说。由于伊壁鸠鲁本人著作的大量散失,卢克莱修的《物性论》对研究伊壁鸠鲁学派的思想具有重大意义。

    The sheer ambition and scale of Roman philosopher Lucretius' epic poem On the Nature of Things distinguishes it as belonging in a class of its own. It is on the one hand a sublime and powerful poem, and on the other an encyclopaedia of the world from an Ancient Roman perspective.

  • 作者简介
  • 提图斯·卢克莱修·卡鲁斯(约前99年~约前55年),罗马共和国末期的诗人和哲学家,以哲理长诗《物性论》著称于世。他继承古代原子学说,特别是阐述并发展了伊壁鸠鲁的哲学观点。反对神创论。

    Titus Lucretius Carus ( c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De rerum natura about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which is usually translated into English as On the Nature of Things.

  • 目录
    • BOOK I
    • BOOK II
    • BOOK III
    • BOOK IV
    • BOOK V
    • BOOK VI