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.

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.

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

Lucretius wrote this epic poem to " Memmius ", who may be the Gaius Memmius who in 58 BC was a praetor, a judicial official deciding controversies between citizens and the government.

Apparently, Lucretius wrote On the Nature of Things in an attempt to convert Gaius Memmius to atomism, but was unsuccessful.

* Gaius Memmius ( Poet ), the poet, orator, tribune of the people in 66 BC, and believed to be the dedicatee of Lucretius ' On the Nature of Things

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

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.

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.

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.

* Lucrezia ( given name ): an Italian name, feminine of the Roman name Lucretius.

Writing four centuries after Lucretius ' death, he enters under the 171st Olympiad the following line: " Titus Lucretius the poet is born.

Michel de Montaigne, in one of his Essays, On Books, lists Lucretius along with Virgil, Horace, and Catullus as his four top poets.

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

A Roman poet Lucretius, in 50 BC, said " Linen-awning, stretched, over mighty theatres, gives forth at times, a cracking roar, when much ' tis beaten about, betwixt the poles and cross-beams ".

Lucretius in his first century BC philosophical poem On the Nature of Things denied the existence of centaurs based on their differing rate of growth.

Famous principles like " nothing can touch body but body " first appeared in the works of Lucretius.

In Lucretius the Earth is a mother, Venus, to whom the poem is dedicated in the first few lines.

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.

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.

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

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

Le Sage also clearly pointed out, that he was not the first one who described such a mechanism, and referred to Lucretius, Gassendi, Hermann and Bernoulli.

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.

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.

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

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.