Lucretius

Lucretius pointing to the casus, the downward movement of the atoms. From the frontispiece to ''Of the Nature of Things'', 1682 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 either a friend or client of Gaius Memmius, to whom the poem was addressed and dedicated. ''De rerum natura'' was a considerable influence on the Augustan poets, particularly Virgil (in his ''Aeneid'' and ''Georgics'', and to a lesser extent on the ''Eclogues'') and Horace. The work was almost lost during the Middle Ages, but was rediscovered in 1417 in a monastery in Germany by Poggio Bracciolini and it played an important role both in the development of atomism (Lucretius was an important influence on Pierre Gassendi) and the efforts of various figures of the Enlightenment era to construct a new Christian humanism. Provided by Wikipedia
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    De la naturaleza : libro primero / by Lucretius Carus, Titus

    Published 1948
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    De la nature des choses : poeme / by Lucretius Carus, Titus

    Published 1829
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    De la naturaleza de las cosas : poema en seis cantos / by Lucretius Carus, Titus

    Published 1946
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    De la naturaleza de las cosas / by Lucretius Carus, Titus

    Published 1985
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    De la nature / by Lucretius Carus, Titus, 98-55 a.C

    Published 1967
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    De la nature / by Lucretius Carus, Titus, 98-55 a.C

    Published 1947
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    On the nature of things / by Lucretius Carus, Titus, 98-55 a.C

    Published 1952
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    De la nature / by Lucrecio Caro, Tito, 98-55 a.C

    Published 1940
    Other Authors: “…Lucretius Carus, Titus…”
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    De la natura de las cosas / by Lucrecio Caro, Tito, 98-55 a.C

    Published 1984
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    De la natura / by Lucrecio Caro, Tito, 98-55 a.C

    Published 1986
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    De rerum natura. by Lucrecio Caro, Tito, 98-55 a.C

    Published 1948
    Other Authors: “…Lucretius Carus, Titus…”
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    Studi lucreziani / by Lucrecio Caro, Tito, 98-55 a.C

    Published 1945
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    Lucrece et l'épicurisme. by Boyancé, Pierre

    Published 1963
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    Lucrece / by Ernout, A.

    Published 1940
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    Antología Lucreziana / by Sofo, Vincenzo

    Published 1946
    Other Authors: “…Lucretius Carus, Titus, 98-55 a.C…”
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    La poesía de Lucrecio / by Disandro, Carlos Alberto, 1919-1994

    Published 1950
    Other Authors: “…Lucretius Carus, Titus, 98-55 a.C…”
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