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Lucretius - Wikipedia
Titus Lucretius Carus (/ ˈtaɪtəs luːˈkriːʃəs / ⓘ TY-tuhs loo-KREE-shuhs; Latin: [ˈtitʊs lʊˈkreːtɪ.ʊs ˈkaːrʊs]; c. 99 – October 15, 55 BC [2]) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things ...
Lucretius | Roman Epicurean Poet & Philosopher | Britannica
Lucretius (flourished 1st century bce) was a Latin poet and philosopher known for his single, long poem, De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things). The poem is the fullest extant statement of the physical theory of the Greek philosopher Epicurus.
Lucretius (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Titus Lucretius Carus (mid-90s to mid-50s BCE) was the author of a Latin, six-book didactic poem on Epicurean physics, the De rerum natura, henceforth DRN, usually translated The nature of things or On the nature of the universe. Largely by accident, the DRN is our fullest source for Epicurean, atomist physics. Lucretius’ rendering of technical Greek prose into Latin verse, combined with the ...
Lucretius | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Lucretius (c. 99—c. 55 B.C.E.) Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) was a Roman poet and the author of the philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), a comprehensive exposition of the Epicurean world-view. Very little is known of the poet’s life, though a sense of his character and personality emerges vividly from his poem. The stress and tumult of his times stands in ...
Why Death is Nothing to Fear: Lucretius and Epicureanism
In his epic poem De Rerum Natura (On The Nature of Things), Roman philosopher Lucretius outlines why, even though there may be no overarching design to life, we have nothing to fear in death.
Lucretius | The Poetry Foundation
Lucretius then gives possible explanations for dawn and sunset, for the light of the moon, and for eclipses. Throughout the rest of the book Lucretius comes down from the heavens to present a kind of universal history of the earth and of humankind. The earth, the great mother of all, first brought forth trees, then birds, then larger animals.
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things | Loeb Classical Library
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99–ca. 55 BCE, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In six books compounded of solid reasoning, brilliant imagination, and noble poetry, he expounds the scientific theories of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, with the aim of dispelling fear of ...
Lucretius: De Rerum Natura, the Poem That Restarted Modernity
Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99–55 BC) was the Roman poet whose De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) presented the Epicurean philosophy of Epicurus in six books of Latin dactylic hexameter — the most ambitious and accomplished philosophical poem in Latin literature. The atoms and the void, the mortality of the soul, the gods' indifference to human affairs, and the philosophy of pleasure ...
Lucretius - Wikiwand
Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. Very little is known about Lucretius's life; the only certainty is that he was ...
Lucretius: the Great Poet and Articulator of Epicurianism | Early ...
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus, c. 99—c. 55 B.C.) was a Roman poet and the author of the philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), a comprehensive exposition of the Epicurean world-view. “On the Nature of Things” was rediscovered in a monastic library in 1417 by Poggio Bracciolini, Stephen Greenblatt, in his 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Swerve: How ...
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