Lucretius
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Sep 17, 2026
Steven SeitelNARRATOR
Footnote.
Steven SeitelNARRATOR
Lucretius, V. 1448 sequentes, where the word progress is pronounced.
Steven SeitelNARRATOR
Usus et impigris simul experientia mentis polatim docuit peditentem progredientes.
Steven SeitelNARRATOR
Sec unum quidquid polatim protrahit aetas in medium ratioque in luminis erigit oras.
Steven SeitelNARRATOR
End of footnote.
Steven SeitelNARRATOR
The gradual amelioration of their existence was marked by the discovery of fire and the use of metals, the invention of language, the invention of weaving, the growth of arts and industries, navigation, the development of family life, the establishment of social order by means of kings, magistrates, laws, the foundation of cities.
Steven SeitelNARRATOR
The last great step in the amelioration of life, according to Lucretius, was the illuminating philosophy of Epicurus, who dispelled the fear of invisible powers and guided man from intellectual darkness to light.
Steven SeitelNARRATOR
But Lucretius and the school to which he belonged did not look forward to a steady and continuous process of further amelioration in the future.
LeniNARRATOR
The prose writers, like Democritus and Anaxagoras, as far as we can judge from their fragments, never attained to a periodic style.
LeniNARRATOR
And hence, we find the same sort of clumsiness in the Timaeus of Plato which characterizes the philosophical poem of Lucretius.
LeniNARRATOR
There is a want of flow, and often a defect of rhythm.
LeniNARRATOR
The meaning is sometimes obscure, and there is a greater use of apposition and more of repetition than occurs in Plato's earlier writings.
John Van StanNARRATOR
Thus not only did they make some extra money, but memories which would otherwise have rapidly faded were turned over to new minds to play a similarly beneficent part in aiding the careers of the owners.
John Van StanNARRATOR
The fine image of Lucretius was realized and the torch of learning was handed on from generation to generation.
John Van StanNARRATOR
Had O'Donovan's business been as widely known as it deserved, the curse of Cram would have gone to roost forever and a finer physical race of Englishmen would have been produced.
John Van StanNARRATOR
In the hands of honest students, the invention might have produced intellectual giants, for each scholar could have started where his predecessor left off and added more to his wealth of lore, the modern standing upon the shoulders of the ancients in a more literal sense than Bacon dreamed.
Robin WaterfieldGUEST
And it is incredibly, incredibly difficult.
Robin WaterfieldGUEST
So for me, I mean, I did those two volumes in Euripides, but I swore to myself that I would never do any more translation poetry because you absolutely have to be a poet to translate poetry.
Robin WaterfieldGUEST
And I am not.
Robin WaterfieldGUEST
I translate prose because I'm a very prosaic person.
Tommy HersantNARRATOR
Our knowledge of Democritus is derived only from references to him in the classical writings.
Tommy HersantNARRATOR
But a very complete account of his atomic theory is enshrined in the great poem De Rerum Natura of the Roman philosopher-poet Lucretius.
Tommy HersantNARRATOR
In that poem, Lucretius has presented to us the philosophy of Epicurus, a philosopher regarded by his followers as divinely inspired and revered as the founder of a religion, or at least of a philosophy practiced as a religious duty.
Tommy HersantNARRATOR
Lucretius lived in the first half of the century before Christ, and therefore belongs to the last period of the Roman Republic.
Tommy HersantNARRATOR
Epicurus taught in Athens at the end of the fourth and beginning of the third century BC.
Tommy HersantNARRATOR
Democritus was a century earlier still.
Tommy HersantNARRATOR
The philosophy of Epicurus was an ethical theory.
Tommy HersantNARRATOR
He accepted and adopted the atomic theory of Democritus as the scientific basis of his ethics.
LennyNARRATOR
The prose writers, like Democritus and Anaxagoras, as far as we can judge from their fragments, never attained to a periodic style.
LennyNARRATOR
And hence we find the same sort of clumsiness in the Timaeus of Plato which characterizes the philosophical poem of Lucretius.
LennyNARRATOR
There is a want of flow, and often a defect of rhythm.
LennyNARRATOR
The meaning is sometimes obscure, and there is a greater use of apposition and more of repetition than occurs in Plato's earlier writings.
NoahHOST
It is not wet by rain, and there's snow doesn't fall on it, but it's, uh, you know, always bright light that runs around it and, uh, it, the cloudless sky covers it.
NoahHOST
This is a passage that is translated by Lucretius in his De Rerum Natura somewhere, and it's, so it's, it's like one of these...
NoahHOST
Monica Gale, one of the Lucretian scholars, uh, I think makes the point that this is a kind of, uh, you know, Lucretius cribs certain, you know, poetry is, is not necessarily poetry and myth are, are complicated-
TristanHOST
Mm-hmm
NoahHOST
... especially in Lucretius.
NoahHOST
But, uh, here he takes something that kind of works for the Epicurean theory where the gods are un- totally undisturbed.
NoahHOST
Anyways, this is, this is why I'm familiar [laughs] very familiar with this-
LeniNARRATOR
The prose writers, like Democritus and Anaxagoras, as far as we can judge from their fragments, never attained to a periodic style.
LeniNARRATOR
And hence, we find the same sort of clumsiness in the Timaeus of Plato, which characterizes the philosophical poem of Lucretius.
LeniNARRATOR
There is a want of flow, and often a defect of rhythm.
LeniNARRATOR
The meaning is sometimes obscure, and there is a greater use of apposition and more of repetition than occurs in Plato's earlier writings.
David WalesNARRATOR
Music of a gentle, monotonous kind has been prescribed in the medical treatment of Romans, Greeks, and even of comparatively modern Europeans.
David WalesNARRATOR
John Mason Goode, in his translation of Lucretius' De Naturam Rerum, mentions, among others, Galen, Theophrastus, and Aulus Gellius.
David WalesNARRATOR
An anonymous writer in the press of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under date of December 23, 1888, takes the ground that its use should be resumed.
David WalesNARRATOR
The noise made by medicine men around the couch of the sick is no better, no worse, than the clangor of bells in Europe.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
He was one of those rare individuals who actually liked reading the really great men.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
It is always something of a shock to find a man reading Milton and Spenser, Homer and Lucretius, Shakespeare and Chaucer for fun, but West read them all and liked them.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
It was all of a piece with his discriminating literary judgment that he disliked Virgil intensely.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
His reading, especially in poetry, was wide, and it was always somehow hitched on to his life.
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