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Lucretius (3953 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lucretius.jpg|200px|right]]'''Titus Lucretius Carus''' (c. [[99 BC|99]] - [[55 BC]]) was a [[Ro...
3: ...[church father]]s, would have wanted to discredit Lucretius's philosophy, which includes disbelief in any kin...
5: ...ased on other evidence that confirms [[55 BC]] as Lucretius' year of death we can then conclude he was born i...
7: However, the only certain fact of Lucretius' life is that he was either a friend or a [[clien...
9: Lucretius attempts in his poem ''On the Nature of Things'' ...

Melchior de Polignac (1406 bytes)
5: ...ter his death by the [[abbé de Rothelin]] (''Anti-Lucretius'', 1745), and was very popular in its day.

99 BC (547 bytes)
11: * [[Lucretius]], [[Latin literature|Latin]] philosopher and poe...

Gaius Memmius (1764 bytes)
1: ...[tribune]] of the people ([[66 BC]]), friend of [[Lucretius]] and [[Catullus]].
5: ... is remembered chiefly because it was to him that Lucretius addressed the ''De rerum natura'', perhaps with t...

Hertzsprung (crater) (3101 bytes)
8: ... across the western rim, and [[Lucretius (crater)|Lucretius crater]] to the southeast.
10: ...rs. A chain of small craters, designated ''Catena Lucretius'', begins at the outer southeastern outer rim an...

55 BC (672 bytes)
13: *[[Lucretius]]

List of Latin language poets (469 bytes)
12: :[[Lucretius]]

Thomas Creech (499 bytes)
2: ...ead Master of Sherborne School. He translated ''[[Lucretius]]''

GWR Bogie Class (744 bytes)
15: * [[Lucretius]]

Hugh Andrew Johnston Munro (2060 bytes)
5: ...on which his reputation rests is his edition of [[Lucretius]], the fruit of many years' efforts (text only, 1...
9: ... was prefixed to a re-issue of the translation of Lucretius in "Bonn's Classical Library" (1908).

On the Nature of Things (9084 bytes)
3: ...n his epic poem, the Roman philosopher and poet [[Lucretius]] argued (among many things) that everything in t...
5: ...a first century BC [[epic poetry|epic poem]] by [[Lucretius]] that grandly proclaims the reality of man's rol...
9: Lucretius's view is austere, but nevertheless he points out...
11: ... ''Dē rērum nātūrā'') is Lucretius's personal statement of truth to an ignorant audi...
17: ...erse is all atoms and void, nothing else. (Hence, Lucretius's view is labeled as [[atomism]].)

The Nature of Things (774 bytes)
3: ...e show is named after a poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "De Rerum Natural"-"[[On the Nature of Things]]....

Classical Latin (1285 bytes)
5: ...ato the Elder]], [[Plautus]] and to some extent [[Lucretius]], differs from the Latin of the "Golden Age" to ...

Sergey Vavilov (1264 bytes)
7: ... the lives and works of great thinkers, such as [[Lucretius]], [[Galileo Galilei]], [[Isaac Newton]], [[Mikha...

Georgics (1632 bytes)
9: ...atus]] and [[Nicander]] are more numerous. Also [[Lucretius]]' ''[[On the Nature of Things]]'' (''De Rerum Na...

Niccolò de' Niccoli (1607 bytes)
5: ... library are by his hand, amongst them those of [[Lucretius]] and of twelve comedies of [[Plautus]].

Ludibrium (1893 bytes)
1: ...laythings of the winds', ''ludibrium pelagis'' ([[Lucretius]]), the plaything of the waves; ''Ludibrio me adh...

Richard Blackmore (1911 bytes)
7: ... philosophical poem, which has equalled that of [[Lucretius]] in the beauty of its versification, and infinit...

Marcus Valerius Probus (2204 bytes)
3: ...grammarians. In this way he treated [[Horace]], [[Lucretius]], [[Terence]] and [[Aulus Persius Flaccus|Persiu...

Tanneguy Lefebvre (1890 bytes)
5: ...creon]] and [[Sappho]], [[Virgil]], [[Horace]], [[Lucretius]] and many others.

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