Post date: Oct 17, 2020 3:56:48 AM
The book, a prose translation of Lucretius’ two-thousand-year-old poem “On the Nature of Things” (“De Rerum Natura”), was marked down to ten cents, and I bought it as much for the cover as for the classical account of the material universe.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/08/08/the-answer-man-stephen-greenblatt