http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/04/10#lucretius <P>I read about half of <cite><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0130">De Rerum Natura</a></cite> 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 <a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=785">on-line</a>, but I don't like it very much. The <a href="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=27627&cgi=product&isbn=080185055x">translation by Anthony Esolen</a>, 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 <cite><a href="chuang-tzu.html">Chuang Tzu</a></cite> into Latin, to confound the philologists of the future.) <ul>To read: <li>George Hadzsitis, <cite>Lucretius and His Influence</cite> <li>Gordon Campbell, <citE>Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on De Rerum Nature Book Five, Lines 772--1104</cite> [<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-06-26.html">Review in BMCR, 2004.06.26</a>] <li>David N. Sedley, <cite>Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom</cite> </ul>