On the Nature of Things — Lucretius (free audiobook) https://openscriptorium.com/books/lucretius.html en-us Translation © 2026 Scriptorium Press, free to share with credit The Epicurean Poem of Atoms and Mortality, Newly Translated from the Latin. Everything is atoms falling through void, the gods do not care, and death is simply nothing to you — an argument made in Latin hexameter around 55 BC, and one of the strangest, most modern books to survive antiquity. All six books, 7,428 lines, translated fresh from the Latin as unrhymed verse: the physics, the attack on religion, the great consolation against the fear of death, and the plague at Athens on which the poem breaks off unfinished. A new plain-English translation made directly from the original language by Scriptorium Press, read in full. Narrated by Scriptorium Press (AI Voice). Free to read, listen to and download at https://openscriptorium.com/books/lucretius.html The Epicurean Poem of Atoms and Mortality, Newly Translated from the Latin. Everything is atoms falling through void, the gods do not care, and death is simply nothing to you — an argument made in Latin hexameter around 55 BC, and one of the strangest, most modern books to survive antiquity. All six books, 7,428 lines, translated fresh from the Latin as unrhymed verse: the physics, the attack on religion, the great consolation against the fear of death, and the plague at Athens on which the poem breaks off unfinished. A new plain-English translation made directly from the original language by Scriptorium Press, read in full. Narrated by Scriptorium Press (AI Voice). 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