Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    Hellenistic · Latin

    De Rerum Natura

    Lucretius

    On the Nature of Things: Epicurean physics and peace of mind in Latin verse, in English translation from the Perseus Digital Library. Translated by William Ellery Leonard.

    Chapters
    6
    Variants
    12
    Genre
    Philosophy
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Book 1verse
    2. 02Book 2verse
    3. 03Book 3verse
    4. 04Book 4verse
    5. 05Book 5verse
    6. 06Book 6verse

    In the atlas

    fully mapped

    Figures53

    Memmius · Epicurus · Ceres · Bacchus · Democritus · Apollo · Athena · Cerberus · Homer · Jupiter

    Ideas37

    fear of death · the void · Mind and soul · religio · Arts of civilization · Atoms · Building plumb-line analogy · Centaurs · Death · Doctrine that all things press to the centre

    Places31

    Acheron · Athens · Helicon · Sicily · Acragas · Acropolis · Aegium · Aetna · Aradus fountain · Aulis

    Groups28

    The gods · Greek poets · Greeks · Aegyptians · Aethiopians · Antipodal beings · Athenians · Black generations of strong men with sun-baked skins · Carthaginian host · Commanders

    Events11

    Cosmogony · Curetes' Field of Mars spectacle · Dreaming while asleep · Dreams reflecting waking pursuits · Drifting clouds and stars illusion · Echo phenomena · Epileptic seizure · Horse in the stream illusion · Latin translation of Epicurean philosophy · The Athenian Plague

    Objects21

    stars / constellations · the moon · the sun · Acorn · Alidensian and Cean cloaks · Babylonian coverlets/tapestries · Beds of grass and leaves · Bent oar illusion · Berecynthian pipe · Brass

    Animals35

    Chimaera · Horses · Lions · Swans · Bees · Birds · Calves · Centaurs · Cranes · Cretan Bull

    32 citations · 146 themes · 416 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.