Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
99-44 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 theori...
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Lucretius(?–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 o...
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Biography Essay"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 ...
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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 o...
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"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 d...
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In the following excerpt, originally written in 1884, Bergson contends that Lucretius's study and love of nature and its laws helped to make his writings more poetic than those of either Democr...
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In the following excerpt, Allison describes the early circumstances of Lucretius, the factors that led him to become a devoted follower of Epicurus, and Lucretius's views on nature and the huma...
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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.
Of the Stoics, those f...
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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 ...
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In the following essay, Montserrat and Navarro examine Lucretius's explanation of the water cycle and praise his use of plain language.
1. Introduction
The lack of research work on ancient m...
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In the following essay, Kaufman rejects Lucretius's argument of symmetry between the times of pre-life and post-death because the former does not fulfill deprivation requirements.
Assuming t...
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Every 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 ...
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Do you know about this: the whole black-hole/B-flat revelation? It’s pretty amazing, and it’s been out there for a while (it’s, you know, out there on another level, of course) an...
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Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Lucretius(?–C. 55 Bce)
Lucretius
Lucretius
Critical Essay by Henri Bergson
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