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On the Nature of Things

Author
Lucretius
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
8 hours 28 minutes
ISBN
9781802565713
Published
27 April 2025
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • Lucretius
  • Epicurus
  • Epicurean
  • philosophy
  • peace
  • freedom
  • pain
  • fear
  • nature
  • ethics

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Lucretius sings atoms, chance, and a cosmos that runs without the old gods’ spite. Fear of death, the pull of desire, and the calm that reason can buy. Spoken as philosophy you can feel: useful when you want a cooler mind and a clearer sky.

Author

Lucretius (c. 99–c. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher whose single surviving work, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), set out the atomist philosophy of Epicurus in luminous hexameter verse. The poem argues that the universe operates by natural laws, not divine will — an idea that rattled orthodoxy for two millennia.

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