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
Did you catch the excerpt of the Dryden translation on sexual appetite? It is absolutely magnificent!
My kindle app tells me it's on page 197 of the book (at least in the American edition)
Posted by: Berto | September 16, 2012 at 03:36 AM