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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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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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 (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Lucretius(?-C. 55 Bce)
Lucretius
Lucretius
