Bruns and Brandt have set forth an alternative theory that Lucretius did at first write the poem with Memmius in mind, but that his enthusiasm for his patron cooled.

Lucretius, like Epicurus, felt that religion was born of fear and ignorance, and that understanding the natural world would free people of its shackles ; however, he did believe in gods.

One of the most eloquent expressions of Epicurean thought is Lucretius ' On the Nature of Things ( first century BCE ) in which he held that gods exist but argued that religious fear was one of the chief causes of human unhappiness and that the gods did not involve themselves in the world.

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

In a letter by Cicero to his brother Quintus in February 54 BC, Cicero said that: " The poems of Lucretius are as you write: they exhibit many flashes of genius, and yet show great mastership.

The great work on which his reputation rests is his edition of Lucretius, the fruit of many years ' efforts ( text only, 1 vol., 1860 ; text, commentary and translation, 2 vols, 1864 ).

The sources of the Aetna are Posidonius of Apamea, and perhaps the pseudo-Aristotelian De Mundo, while there are many reminiscences of Lucretius.

He brought out editions of various Greek and Latin authors: Longinus, Anacreon and Sappho, Virgil, Horace, Lucretius and many others.

His father, who was the author of many papers on various subjects, occupied his son of his own studies early, including the works of the Roman poet Lucretius at the age of 13.

However, Montaigne eloquently employed many references and quotes from classical Greek and Roman, i. e. non-Christian authors, especially the atomist Lucretius.

Greek atomism dates back to 440 BC, as what might be indicated by the book De Rerum Natura ( The Nature of Things ) written by the Roman Lucretius in 50 BC.

Although most of the relevant tissues and endocrine glands had been identified by early anatomists, a more humoral approach to understanding biological function and disease was favoured by the ancient Greek and Roman thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Lucretius, Celsus, and Galen, according to Freeman et al., and these theories held sway until the advent of germ theory, physiology, and organ basis of pathology in the 19th century.

The poet Lucretius is its most known Roman proponent.

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Europe throughout the middle ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Lucretius, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire from religious writers like St. Augustine ( 354 – 430 AD ), to secular writers like Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

The discovery of persistence of vision is attributed to the Roman poet Lucretius, although he only mentions it in connection

* Lucretius, Roman philosopher

Lucretius was the first writer to introduce Roman readers to Epicurean philosophy.

The poet Lucretius is its most well-known Roman proponent.

* Lucretius, Roman philosopher ( b. c. 99 BC )

Brutus, leaving Lucretius in command of the city, proceeded with armed men to the Roman army then camped at Ardea.

* Epicureanism: Epicurus ( Greek ) and Lucretius ( Roman )

Lucretius, a Roman philosopher, claimed Etna was completely hollow and the fires of the underground driven by a fierce wind circulating near sea level.

Gaius Memmius ( incorrectly called Gemellus, " The Twin "), Roman orator and poet, tribune of the people ( 66 BC ), patron of Lucretius and acquaintance of Catullus.

De rerum natura ( On the Nature of Things ) is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.

* William Ramsay, " Lucretius " in William Smith ( editor ), ( 1867 ), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

An application: Famously and controversially, in the philosophy of the Greek Anaxagoras ( at least as it is discussed by the Roman Atomist Lucretius ), it was assumed that the atoms constituting a substance must themselves have the salient observed properties of that substance: so atoms of water would be wet, atoms of iron would be hard, atoms of wool would be soft, etc.

The Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius expressed this principle in his first book of De Rerum Natura ( eng.

In his early youth Le Sage was strongly influenced by the writings of the Roman poet Lucretius and incorporated some of Lucretius ’ ideas into a mechanical explanation of gravitation, which he subsequently worked on and defended throughout his life.

The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: " Dē Rērum Nātūrā " — On the Nature of Things.

The Italic goddess Mater Matuta " Mother Morning " has been connected to Aurora by Roman authors ( Lucretius, Priscianus ).

: Lucretius was a Roman poet.

Lucius ' wife, Lucretia, daughter of Spurius Lucretius, prefect of Rome, " a man of distinction ", made sure that the king's son was treated as became his rank, although her husband was away at the siege.

Spurius Lucretius was swiftly elected interrex ; he was prefect of the city anyway.

Lucretius envisioned a pre-technological man that was " far tougher than the men of today ...

It virtually disappeared during the Middle Ages, but was rediscovered in a monastery in Germany in 1417, by Poggio Bracciolini, and 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.

The note reads: " The first years of his life Virgil spent in Cremona, right until the assumption of his toga virilis, which he accepted on his 17th birthday, when the same two men held the consulate, as when he was born, and it so happened that on the very same day Lucretius the poet passed away.

These are a lot of ifs, and it may be wisest to simply say that Lucretius was born in the 90s BC and died in the 50s BC.

Lucretius was probably a member of the aristocratic gens Lucretia, and his work shows an intimate knowledge of the luxurious lifestyle in Rome.

The poet Virgil was another prominent Epicurean ( see Lucretius for further details ).

Assisted by the assumption that combination always takes place in the simplest possible way, he thus arrived at the idea that chemical combination takes place between particles of different weights, and it was this which differentiated his theory from the historic speculations of the Greeks, such as Democritus and Lucretius.

Lucretius cited this episode to make the point: " Superstition ( religio ) was able to induce so great an evil.

After a " considerable time ", Valerius and Lucretius having been carried wounded off the field in full view of the troops, the army was struck by a panic and ran for the bridge.

Lucretius was soon advised.

In contrast the Medieval European's sense of self was linked to a network of social roles: " the household, the kinship network, the guild, the corporation-these were the building blocks of personhood ", Stephen Greenblatt observes, in recounting the recovery ( 1417 ) and career of Lucretius ' poem De rerum natura: " at the core of the poem lay key principles of a modern understanding of the world.

Santayana was an early adherent of epiphenomenalism, but also admired the classical materialism of Democritus and Lucretius ( of the three authors on whom he wrote in Three Philosophical Poets, Santayana speaks most favorably of Lucretius ).

A Memoir by J. D. Duff was prefixed to a re-issue of the translation of Lucretius in " Bohn's Classical Library " ( 1908 ).