Britannica Great Books: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius

by Encyclopedia Britannica, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucretius

Other authors: Robert M. Hutchins

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Britannica, Encyclopedia	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Aurelius, Marcus	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Epictetus	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Lucretius	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Hutchins, Robert M.	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Adler. Mortimer J.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Great Books of the Western World (Volume 12, 1952 ed.)

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On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

The Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus

The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Book 3 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by Lucretius (indirect)

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Mother of the Aeneadae, darling of men and gods, increase-giving Venus, who beneath the gliding signs of heaven fillest with thy presence the ship-carrying sea, the corn-bearing lands, since through thee every kind of living things is conceived, rises up and beholds the light of the sun.

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This work also contains text by Epictetus and by Marcus Aurelius. So please do not combine with "The Nature of Things" by Lucretius.

This is Volume 12 of the first (Robert Maynard Hutchins) edition of the Great Books. It is not the same work as Volume 11 of the second (Mortimer Adler) edition - that contains works by Plotinus.

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Lucretius. The Way Things Are (On the Nature of Things)

Epictetus. Discourses

Marcus Aurelius. The Meditations

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