The Author: Michael M. Repetzki was born in Essen in 1967. From 1987 to 1989 he studied English and Latin at the university of Bonn. From 1989 to 1994 he completed his studies at the university of Münster, where he graduated in 1994. In 1996, the DAAD awarded him a scholarship to work on the Evelyn manuscripts in the British Library; he submitted his thesis to the Faculty of Arts at Münster in 1997. He is currently teaching at the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Göppingen.

• Contents: Epicurean cosmogony and cosmology – Infinite space and infinity of worlds – Vacuum – Concept of matter – Matter in motion – (Im)mortality of the human soul – Vita contemplativa vs vita activa – Editions of Lucretius – Commentaries on Lucretius/Epicureanism.