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Lucretius | | Birth Date: |
c. 99 B.C. | | Death Date: |
c. 55 B.C. | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Lucretius
1,207 words, approx. 4 pages
 Lucretius (99-ca. 55 B.C.), full name Titus Lucretius Carus, was a Latin poet and philosopher. His one work, De rerum natura, a didactic poem in hexameters, renders in verse the atomistic philosophy of Epicurus, forerunner of the modern-day atomic... summary from source:
Biography of Lucretius
9,418 words, approx. 31 pages
 "When a single day brings the world to destruction, only then will the poetry of the sublime Lucretius pass away." This judgment by the Roman poet Ovid, written in the generation after Lucretius's death, has been echoed by such writers as Voltaire and... summary from source:
 Biography of Lucretius
9,261 words, approx. 31 pages
"When a single day brings the world to destruction, only then will the poetry of the sublime Lucretius pass away." This judgment by the Roman poet Ovid , written in the generation after Lucretius's death, has been echoed by such writers as Voltaire and... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) Summary
108 words, approx. 0 pages99-44 B.C. Roman writer and philosopher who is remembered for his poem De rerum natura (On the nature of things). De rerum natura provides an exposition of the theories of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, a philosopher revered by Lucretius. The poem... summary from source:
 Lucretius(?–C. 55 Bce) Summary
3,433 words, approx. 11 pagesLucretius(?–C. 55 Bce) Little is known of Lucretius (d. ca. 55 BCE [Donatus, Life of Virgil ] or perhaps a few years later; cf. Hutchinson 2001) apart from his poem in six books, On the Nature of Things ( De rerum natura ), an exposition in... summary from source:
 Lucretius Information
2,148 words, approx. 7 pages
Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BC- ca. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De Rerum Natura, <i>On the Nature of...
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4/9/2006: 1,595 words, approx. 5 pagesEvery once in a while someone will ask me, “Why don’t you write about Rosanne Cash anymore? And hey, whatever happened with your marriage proposal to her?” It’s true that I was one of the first (or, anyway, one of the most effusive) to praise... summary from source:
The New York Observer I Got Rosanne Cash's Black Cadillac Album And Barely Survived
4/9/2006: 1,596 words, approx. 5 pagesEvery once in a while someone will ask me, “Why don’t you write about Rosanne Cash anymore? And hey, whatever happened with your marriage proposal to her?” It’s true that I was one of the first (or, anyway, one of the most effusive) to...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by John D. Minyard
21,011 words, approx. 70 pages
In the following excerpt, Minyard analyzes the De rerum natura and discusses the tactics Lucretius employed in the work to demonstrate to readers the failure of old world views and the superiority of Epicureanism.
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Critical Essay by James H. Nichols, Jr.
8,606 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following excerpt, Nichols examines elements of Lucretius's thought present in the works of Thomas Hobbes, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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