LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things [Book IV]

Book IV

• “Lucretius treats of the images of Epicurus, by which the senses are excited.

LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things [Book III]

Book III

• “In the third book, he describes the nature of the mind and the soul, commencing with a eulogy on Epicurus, who taught that the world was formed, not by any divine power, but from a fortuitous concourse of atoms, and who succeeded, beyond any other philosopher, in relieving the minds of men from the fear of the gods, of death, and of torments after death.

LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things [Books I-II]

LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things [Books I-II]

Book I

• “Lucretius invokes Venus as the great cause of production.