Titus Lucretius Carus

Lucrèce

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Lucretius Staff

Sénèque (auteur prétendu).)

This is the only known work by the Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus (about 99 B.C. - about 55 B.C.). It expounds the tenets of Epicureanism, a philosophy which believe "pleasure" was best obtained by living modestly, seeking and gaining knowledge about the world, and limiting one's desires.

De Rerum Natura

Virgil

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Désiré Nisard

Lucrèce, Virgile, Valérius Flaccus, Œuvres complètes avec la traduction en français publiées sous la direction de M. Nisard

Lucrèce, Virgile, Valerius Flaccus, Oeuvres complètes

T. Lucretii Cari de Rerum natura libri VI, a Dion. Lambino,... emendati... et... commentariis illustrati, nunc ab eodem recogniti...

University of Oxford

Reader in English Gordon Campbell

Gordon Lindsay Campbell

Lucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species and human prehistory (1st century BC) is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. This commentary seeks to locate Lucretius in both the ancient and modern contexts.

A Commentary on De Rerum Natura, Book Five, Lines 772-1104

Lucretius on Creation and Evolution

Don Fowler

Former Felow and Tutor in Classics Don Fowler

P. G. Fowler

This is the first commentary on Lucretius' theory of atomic motion, one of the most difficult and technical parts of De rerum natura. The late Don Fowler sets new standards for Lucretian studies in his awesome command both of the ancient literary, philological, and philosophical background to this Latin Epicurean poem, and of the relevant modern scholarship.

A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura

Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and he died in the year 55. Writing in the waning days of the Roman Republic - as Rome's politics grew individualistic and treacherous, its high-life wanton, its piety introspective and morbid - Lucretius sets forth a rational and materialistic view of the world which offers a retreat into a quiet community of wisdom and friendship. Even to modern readers, the sweep of Lucretius's observations is remarkable. A careful observer of nature, he writes with an innocent curiosity into how things are put together - from the oceans, lands, and stars to a mound of poppy seeds, from the "applause" of a rooster's wings to the human mind and soul. Yet Lucretius is no romantic. Nature is what it is - fascinating, purposeless, beautiful, deadly. Once we understand this, we free ourselves of superstitious fears, becoming as human and as godlike as we can be. The poem, then, is about the universe and how human beings ought to live in it. Epicurean physics and morality converge.

On the Nature of Things

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