Inspired by Stephen Greenblatt's book The Swerve, I've had a go at reading John Dryden's excellent verse translation of Lucretius' thoughts on the fear of death (themselves derived from Epicurus) 17:25: click on the link below for the audio to begin playing (or right click to download = control click for Macs)
Nigel Warburton reads John Dryden's translation of Lucretius
There is a text of Dryden's poem online here
