The Villa Council Presents: Lucretius and the Toleration of Intolerable Ideas
A lecture presented by Stephen Greenblatt
How does one take in concepts that are initially alien or offensive? Pulitzer Prizewinning author Stephen Greenblatt considers why and how Lucretius' great poem "On the Nature of Things"the core ideas of which were utterly repugnant to the Christian culture of Renaissance Europeeluded the period's tight web of censorship and repression, playing a crucial role in an age in love with beauty.

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