Reply #4: I hope Greenblatt's book will cause more people to read Lucretius

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How amazing that his philosophical ideas seem so modern today. We have such a filtered view of history. We need to be informed that people were able to imagine the world in ways that did not conform to the ideas that led to the dark ages long before the Renaissance and the beginning of technology that made it possible for us to verify so many of the things Lucretius was able to think about.