On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Ca...

Yesterday Framed in To-day - A Story of the Christ, and How To-Day Received Him by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In this unusual Christian novel, Pansy asks a bold question: what if the story of Christ unfolded not in ancient Judea, but in late nineteenth-century North America ...  Show more

Workers Together, or An Endless Chain by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion Workers Together, or An Endless Chain follows Dr. Stuart Everett, the energetic new superintendent of Packard Place Sabbath School, as he refuses to let religion remain a once-a-week habit. Instead, he chal ...  Show more

The poet Lucretius's major work is a six-book poem on epicurean philosophy and physics. Doesn’t sound exactly promising? But his contemporaries and poetic descendants RAVED about it, even Cicero, who is mean about everyone. Ovid says that ‘the verses of sublime Lucretius will die ...  Show more

Naomi Alderman's tale is of Lucretius, author of a 2000 year old poem that theorised about atoms and the natural world. Written in the first century BCE, during a chaotic and frightening time when the Roman Republic was collapsing, Lucretius encouraged people to feel free through ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics. The Poetics is, as far as we know, the first ever work of literary theory. Written in the 4th century BC, it is the work of a scholar who was also a biologist, and treats literary works with the detached analytical eye of a ...  Show more

Not even imprisonment could stop the Marquis de Sade from writing his insanely intense, unrelenting erotica - and not even Sade's eventual death could stop his secret manuscript, temporarily hidden in a Bastille wall to protect it from looters and revolutionaries, from haunting i ...  Show more