![]() I had regarded it as something of literary value, yes, but mainly as a glimpse of the way the ancients thought, without any particular current relevance. ![]() I didn’t, and later, puzzled, I began leafing through it again. "We don’t need ideas of that kind." And she instructed me to throw the book in the rubbish. "You’ve no business to be reading that," she said. She met my enthusiasm with a stern reprimand. ![]() Like Stephen Greenblatt, I came across a cheap copy in a secondhand bookshop, and like him, I dipped into it with surprise and delight.Ī couple of days later, expecting a pat on the back for making a start on a text which had not so far appeared on our high school syllabus, I showed the copy to my Latin teacher, a Polish nun. I have a little story of my own about the discovery of Lucretius’ philosophical poem On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura). ![]()
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