As you're roaming through the Trial of Instinct in the Final Chapter, you'll meet a strange character named Lucretius. This giant fish will desperately be searching for a Golden Top Knot, which is an ...

In his new book, The Swerve, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt tells the story of an ancient poem and a manuscript explorer, and resurrects a time when people truly loved books. Shakespeare ...

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Before he became a Professor of literature at Harvard, and way before he wrote his classic Shakespeare biography, Will in The World, Stephen Greenblatt was an I'll-read-anything kind of kid. One day, ...

Epicurus didn't like poetry. He thought it was unclear in comparison to prose, and in his own works used prose, often of a sparse and crabby variety. A wise man will be able to talk about poetry, ...

Lucretius (c. 99 B.C.-c. 55 B.C.), author of De Rerum Natura, was a Roman poet and philosopher who explained and expounded the beliefs of the Greek philosopher Epicurus—advocating a happy, tranquil ...

In 1585, the greatest Elizabethan scientist, Thomas Harriot, was sent by his patron, Sir Walter Raleigh, to the nascent English colony in Virginia to assess the natural resources, observe the ...

The subject of Lucretius's six-book poem De Rerum Natura was not war, love, myth or history – it was atomic physics Lucretius (full name Titus Lucretius Carus) lived in the first half of the century ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Part of Lucretius’s genius is his ability to demonstrate difficult abstract concepts with concrete, everyday ...

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