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.

** De rerum natura by Lucretius ( Latin Literature, Epicurean philosophy )

Lucretius apotheosized Epicurus as the main character of his epic poem De rerum natura.

The Latin poem De Rerum Natura by Lucretius ( ca.

In relation to this discrepancy in the frequency of Lucretius ' reference to the apparent subject of his poem, Kannengiesse advances the theory that Lucretius wrote the first version of De rerum natura for the reader at large, and subsequently revised in order to write it for Memmius.

Other adherents to the teachings of Epicurus included the poet Horace, whose famous statement Carpe Diem (" Seize the Day ") illustrates the philosophy, as well as Lucretius, as he showed in his De Rerum Natura.

** A translation of " De Rerum Natura " by Lucretius.

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.

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

He is remembered chiefly because it was to him that Lucretius addressed the De rerum natura, perhaps with the idea of making him a convert to the doctrines of Epicurus.

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.

* Lucretius the Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura.

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura III.

Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on De Rerum Natura Book Five, lines 772-1104.

Lucretius on Atomic Motion: A Commentary on De Rerum Natura, Book Two, Lines 1 – 332.

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In 1417, for example, Poggio Bracciolini discovered the manuscript of Lucretius, De rerum natura, which had been lost for centuries and which contained an explanation of Epicurean doctrine, though at the time this was not commented on much by Renaissance scholars, who confined themselves to remarks about Lucretius's grammar and syntax.

Named after Lucretius ' De Rerum Natura.

* De Rerum Natura, by Lucretius Carus ( c. 50 BC )

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

Lucretius ' De Rerum Natura serves as Virgil's primary Latin model in terms of genre and meter.

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.

The philosophical text with the greatest influence on the Georgics as a whole was Lucretius ' Epicurean epic De Rerum Natura.

* Lucretius ' de Rerum Natura ( 1st century BC )

G. B. Conte notes, citing the programmatic statement in Georgics 2. 490 – 502, which draws from De Rerum Natura 1. 78 – 9, " the basic impulse for the Georgics came from a dialogue with 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.

Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius in his first book of De Rerum Natura explicitly states his opposition to the concept of ex nihilo creation:

* De Rerum Natura by Lucretius ( 1937 ) translator

The quotation is from Lucretius De Rerum Natura, 2. 1-2

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.

It goes at least as far back as the 5th century BCE in ancient Greece with Diagoras " the atheist " of Melos, and the 1st century BCE in ancient Rome with Titus Lucretius Carus ' De Rerum Natura.

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.

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

Cornelius Nepos, in his Life Of Atticus, mentions Lucretius as one of the greatest poets of his times.

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.

Lucretius, however, replaced moral degradation with the concept of progress, which he conceived to be like the growth of an individual human being.

Lucretius uses the analogy of a vessel, stating that the physical body is the vessel that holds both the mind ( mens ) and spirit ( anima ) of a human being.

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.

In the following consular year ( the consuls now being Publius Valerius Poplicola and Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus ) the Sabines marched toward Rome and were stopped by the river Anio and presumably the consular troops south of it.

In this way he treated Horace, Lucretius, Terence and Persius, the biography of the last-named being probably taken from Probus's introduction to his edition of the poet.

The task undertaken by Lucretius was to clearly state and fully develop these views in an attractive form ; his work being an attempt to show that everything in nature can be explained by natural laws without the need for the intervention of divine beings.