Lucretius

12 Dec 2011 15:28

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I read about half of De Rerum Natura when I was younger and my Latin was better; when I am older and my Latin is better I should like to translate the whole thing. The Leonard translation is on-line, but I don't like it very much. The translation by Anthony Esolen, not on-line, is the best I've run across. (When I am much older, I should like to translate it into ancient Chinese, and Chuang Tzu into Latin, to confound the philologists of the future.)

To read:
• Alison Brown, The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence [Blurb]
• Gordon Campbell, Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on De Rerum Nature Book Five, Lines 772--1104 [Review in BMCR, 2004.06.26]
• Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern [Rather over-the-top subtitle... Blurb]
• George Hadzsitis, Lucretius and His Influence
• Gerard Passannante, The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition [blurb]
• David N. Sedley, Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom