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}}[[wikipedia:Lucretius|Titus Lucretius Carus]] (c.99 &ndash; c.55 BCE), known simply as Lucretius, was a Roman poet who believed in Epicurean philosophy:<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1847  "Lucrē'tius"] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature,'' ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> a “strictly mechanistic account of all phenoma” that atoms make up everything in the world, from physical objects to the mind to the soul.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-1173 "Epicū'rus”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature,'' ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> Little is known about Lucretius, although various contemporary authors have written about his life.<ref>"Lucrē'tius” in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.''</ref>
  
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This is the Latin version of ''De Rerum Natura'', or ''On the Nature of Things'', the only known work of Lucretius, is a poem in six books. "The purpose of the poem is to free men from a sense of guilt and the fear of death by demonstrating that fear of the intervention of gods in this world and of punishment of the soul after death are groundless: the world and everything in it are material and governed by the mechanical laws of nature, and the soul is mortal and perishes with the body."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Lucretius wrote with a clear and organizational purpose; even "[the] division of the text corresponds to the Epicurean stress on the intelligibility of phenomena: everything has a systematic explanation, the world can be analysed and understood."<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-1313 "Lucrētius"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World,'' ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).</ref> Each book has a prologue and a conclusion. The prologue in Book 1 "opens with a famous invocation of Venus, goddess of creative life, to grant to the poet inspiration and to Rome peace."<ref>"Lucrē'tius” in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.''</ref>
  
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Latest revision as of 09:04, 11 June 2018

by Titus Lucretius Carus

De Rerum Natura Libri Sex
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Author Titus Lucretius Carus
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Published Londini: Sumptibus & typis Jacob Tonson
Date 1712
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Titus Lucretius Carus (c.99 – c.55 BCE), known simply as Lucretius, was a Roman poet who believed in Epicurean philosophy:[1] a “strictly mechanistic account of all phenoma” that atoms make up everything in the world, from physical objects to the mind to the soul.[2] Little is known about Lucretius, although various contemporary authors have written about his life.[3]

This is the Latin version of De Rerum Natura, or On the Nature of Things, the only known work of Lucretius, is a poem in six books. "The purpose of the poem is to free men from a sense of guilt and the fear of death by demonstrating that fear of the intervention of gods in this world and of punishment of the soul after death are groundless: the world and everything in it are material and governed by the mechanical laws of nature, and the soul is mortal and perishes with the body."[4] Lucretius wrote with a clear and organizational purpose; even "[the] division of the text corresponds to the Epicurean stress on the intelligibility of phenomena: everything has a systematic explanation, the world can be analysed and understood."[5] Each book has a prologue and a conclusion. The prologue in Book 1 "opens with a famous invocation of Venus, goddess of creative life, to grant to the poet inspiration and to Rome peace."[6]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Lucrē'tius" in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
  2. ↑ "Epicū'rus” in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
  3. ↑ "Lucrē'tius” in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.
  4. ↑ Ibid.
  5. ↑ "Lucrētius" in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
  6. ↑ "Lucrē'tius” in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.
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