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