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 theory...
"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 Ge...
"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 G...
On the Nature of Things (Latin: De rerum natura) is a first century BC epic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius that grandly proclaims the reality of man's role in a universe without a god to help him along. It is a statement of personal...
JOHN A. GAVIN, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-22-1997 THE NATURE OF THINGS -- A SUMMER LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN THE HEART OF SUBURBIA By JOHN A. GAVIN, Staff Writer Date: 07-22-1997, Tuesday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- 5 Star, 4...
Robert Kanigel EIGHT LITTLE PIGGIES Reflections in Natural History By Stephen Jay Gould Norton. 479 pp. $22.95 WHAT MAKES Gould so good? What is it about his essays on natural history, of which Eight Little Piggies represents his sixth collection, that his readers...
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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