CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Lucretius, Aponia
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Classics 210: greek & roman classics in english. Lucretius; on the nature of things: afterlife: When you are dead, there is nothing afterwards no afterlife. Book three and against this same life, when a few particles of heat have dispersed and air has been ejected out through the mouth, it at once deserts the veins and leaves the bones . By removing this fear, people are able to live within their confines more happily: role of the gods. Book one invocation to venus to not have war. Mother of the descendants of aeneas, pleasure of humans and gods, life-giving. Venus, it is you who beneath the gliding signs of heaven make the ship-bearing sea and the fruitful earth teem with life . People believed gods did not punish or reward: importance of pleasure.
