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On the Nature of Things by Lucretius.
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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, Minadeo attempts to explain the meaning of De rerum natura largely through study of its design and structure.
The biographical tradition on Titus Lucretius Carus is meager in...
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In the following essay, Nugent surveys various representations of women in the De rerum natura.
Epic poetry celebrates the creation of a certain kind of self.1 That creation will often—but not ...
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In the following excerpt, Esolen explains that Lucretius wrote the De rerum natura to fight superstition. He also examines Lucretius's influence on Vergil, Cicero, Horace, and other writers.
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Critical Essay by Richard Minadeo
