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Coaxing and Seducing

Richard Jenkyns

  • Lucretius: ‘On the Nature of the Universe’ translated by Ronald Melville

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Richard Jenkyns, Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford, is the author of The Victorians and Ancient Greece, and, most recently, of Virgil’s Experience.

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