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In the work of another author in late Republican Rome, Virgil writes in the second book of his Georgics, clearly referring to Lucretius, that " Happy is he who has discovered the causes of things and has cast beneath his feet all fears, unavoidable fate, and the din of the devouring Underworld.
* Summarizing the creationist view of Lucretius's role: " As this is the viewpoint of modern evolutionists, the reader may appreciate that Lucretius, not Darwin, has been the principal spokesman for evolution during the last two millennia.
The Italic goddess Mater Matuta " Mother Morning " has been connected to Aurora by Roman authors ( Lucretius, Priscianus ).

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Lucretius refers to Memmius by name four times in the first book, three times in the second, five in the fifth, and not at all in the third, fourth, or sixth books.
The implied meaning of " destroying " something is to undo its existence, to make it not there anymore, and this cannot be so: if the void is that which does not exist, and if this void is the implied destination of the destroyed, then the thing in reality cannot be destroyed, for the thing ( and all things ) could not have existed in the first place ( as Lucretius said, ex nihilo nihil fit: nothing comes from nothing ).
The Romans invented the seaside villa: a vignette in a frescoed wall at the house of Lucretius Fronto in Pompeii still shows a row of seafront pleasure houses, all with porticos along the front, some rising up in porticoed tiers to an altana at the top that would catch a breeze on the most stifling evenings ( Veyne 1987 ill. p 152 )
Lucretius maintained that he could free humankind from fear of the gods by demonstrating that all things occur by natural causes without any intervention by the gods.
In this he argued that there was clear lack of logic in the materialistic view of the world and concluded: " When I bring all this together it is impossible for me to understand on what scientific grounds is founded this resurrection of the old materialistic view of the world that had its first great expression from Epicurus and Lucretius.
The 1st century BCE Roman poet, Titus Lucretius Carus, in his work De Rerum Natura, wrote: " But ' tis that same religion oftener far / Hath bred the foul impieties of men :" A philosopher of the Epicurean school, Lucretius believed the world was composed solely of matter and void, and that all phenomena could be understood as resulting from purely natural causes.

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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.
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.
The first three books provide a fundamental account of being and nothingness, matter and space, the atoms and their movement, the infinity of the universe both as regards time and space, the regularity of reproduction ( no prodigies, everything in its proper habitat ), the nature of mind ( animus, directing thought ) and spirit ( anima, sentience ) as material bodily entities, and their mortality, since, according to Lucretius, they and their functions ( consciousness, pain ) end with the bodies that contain them and with which they are interwoven.
The 1st-century BC Epicurean philosopher Lucretius interprets the myth of Sisyphus as personifying politicians aspiring for political office who are constantly defeated, with the quest for power, in itself an " empty thing ", being likened to rolling the boulder up the hill.
With the exception of a few major writers, such as Cicero, Caesar, Lucretius and Catullus, ancient accounts of Republican literature are glowing accounts of jurists and orators who wrote prolifically but who now can't be read because their works have been lost, or analyses of language and style that appear insightful but can't be verified because there are no surviving instances.
The sources of the Aetna are Posidonius of Apamea, and perhaps the pseudo-Aristotelian De Mundo, while there are many reminiscences of Lucretius.
Many of the most valuable manuscripts in the Laurentian library are by his hand, amongst them those of Lucretius and of twelve comedies of Plautus.
Many passages from Virgil's poetry are indebted to Lucretius: the plague section of Book 3 takes as its model the plague of Athens that closes the De Rerum Natura.
Additionally, some of these reproduced lines are themselves adapted from works by Virgil's earlier literary models, including Homer ’ s Iliad and Odyssey, Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica, Ennius ' Annals, and Lucretius ' On the Nature of Things.
His chief editions are: Horace ( 1561 ); Lucretius ( 1564 ), on which see HAJ Munro's preface to his edition ; Cicero ( 1566 ); Cornelius Nepos ( 1569 ); Demosthenes ( 1570 ), completing the unfinished work of Guillaume Morel ; and Plautus ( 1576 ).
His translation of the elegies of Propertius, Elegien von Properz ( 1798 ), and that of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura ( 2 vols., 1831 ) are deservedly praised.
The cosmogony of Hesiod and the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius are important philosophical poems.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Lucretius.

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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 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.
Lucretius cited this episode to make the point: " Superstition ( religio ) was able to induce so great an evil.
* Analysis of Lucretius ' " conversion " challenge in terms of designing a " meme " that would compete with the surrounding memes of creationism ; " as doctors sweeten bitter medicine with honey ", so Lucretius sweetened the conversion pill as poetry.
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.
Her association for Romans of the first century BCE with Artemis was so thorough that Lucretius identifies the altar of the goddess at the sacrifice of Iphianassa ( Iphigeneia ) in Aulis as Triviai virginis aram.

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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.
** De rerum natura by Lucretius ( Latin Literature, Epicurean philosophy )
Some scholars consider the epic poem On the Nature of Things by Lucretius to present in one unified work the core arguments and theories of Epicureanism.
The Latin poem De Rerum Natura by Lucretius ( ca.
Strauss argued that Machiavelli may have seen himself as influenced by some ideas from classical materialists such as Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius.
Their movement is influenced by the Parenklisis ( Lucretius names it Clinamen ) and that is determined by the chance.
9 ) laughs at this: it is referred to also by Lucretius and Horace.
Four men, led by Lucius Junius Brutus, and including also Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Publius Valerius Poplicola, and Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus incited a revolution, and as a result Tarquinius and his family were deposed and expelled from Rome in 509 B. C.
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.
If this is true, Lucretius must have been dead by 54 BC.
He attempts this by expounding the philosophical system of Epicurus, whom Lucretius glorifies as the hero of his epic poem.
Lucretius compares his work in this poem to that of a doctor healing a child: just as the doctor may put honey on the rim of a cup containing bitter wormwood ( most likely Absinth Wormwood ) believed to have healing properties, the patient is " tricked " into accepting something beneficial but difficult to swallow, " but not deceived " by the doctor.
The earliest recorded verdict of Lucretius ' work is by Cicero, who calls Lucretius's poetry " full of inspired brilliance, but also of great artistry ".
Some scholars consider the epic poem On the Nature of Things by Lucretius to present in one unified work the core arguments and theories of Epicureanism.
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.
9 ) laughs at Ennius for this: it is referred to also by Lucretius ( i. 124 ) and by Horace ( Epist.
Lucretius, in De Rerum Natura, mentions Iphianassa being sacrificed by her father on the altar of the " Virgin of the Crossways " ( Triviai virginis ) Diana at Aulis as an offering to ensure a successful voyage, in undoubted reference to the tradition of Iphigeneia.

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