ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book V, Part 4: Formation of World & Astronomical Questions by commonvox
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book V, Part 5: Origins of Vegetable and Animal Life by commonvox
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book V, Part 6: Origins and Savage Period of Mankind by commonvox
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book V, Part 3: The World is Not Eternal by commonvox
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book IV, Part 5: The Passion of Love by commonvox
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book V, Part 1: Proem by commonvox
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book V, Part 2: Argument of the Book and New Proem by commonvox
In this section of ON THE NATURE OF THINGS, Lucretius gets into his conceptions of what happens to humans (and animals) when they sleep. In the midst of the discussion, he gets into rather frank (perhaps bordering on unseemly) descriptions of various sleep-time excretions and secretions -- not for the faint of heart!
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book IV, Part 3: THE SENSES AND MENTAL PICTURES by commonvox
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book IV, Part 2: EXISTENCE & CHARACTER OF THE IMAGES by commonvox
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ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book IV, Part 1: PROEM by commonvox
Notable quote from this section: "Of truth, the life of fools is Acheron [hell] on Earth."
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book III, Part 2: NATURE AND COMPOSITION OF THE MIND by commonvox
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book II, Part 5: INFINITE WORLDS by commonvox
http://classic-tales.net/ Excerpt from Classic Tales of Christmas: A Yuletide Collection of Stories, Poems, and Essays - Annotated for Modern Readers Works by Harrison Morris, Alphonse Daudet, John Fox Jr., Max Beerbohm, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Richmal Crompton, Christina Rossetti, and Georg Schuster, with preface and annotations by Daniel H. Vimont This excerpt is from the short story, THE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, by Harrison S. Morris, and begins with an Editor's Note by Daniel H. Vimont. AUDIOBOOK NOW AVAILABLE ON AUDIBLE.COM, AMAZON, AND iTUNES.
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book II, Part 4: ABSENCE OF SECONDARY QUALITIES by commonvox
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book II, Part 3: ATOMIC FORMS AND THEIR COMBINATIONS by commonvox
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Lucretius, Book II, Part 2: ATOMIC MOTIONS by commonvox