# Lucretius

> A Roman poet who wrote one long poem explaining Epicurean physics - atoms falling through the void, the soul as mortal matter, pleasure as the highest good - and then vanished from history. The manuscript nearly disappeared for a thousand years.

*1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/lucretius

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** -94
- **Died:** -55
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Titus Lucretius Carus lived in the first century BC and left almost no biographical trace; the only certainty is that he knew Gaius Memmius, the man to whom he addressed his sole work. That work, De rerum natura, is a didactic poem laying out Epicurean philosophy in Latin hexameter. It influenced the Augustan poets - Virgil drew on it for the Aeneid and Georgics, Horace less directly - but then sank into obscurity through the Middle Ages. In 1417 a humanist named Poggio Bracciolini found a manuscript copy in a German monastery. The rediscovery fed the Enlightenment's interest in atomism and helped shape a new Christian humanism, giving Lucretius a second life centuries after his death on October 15, 55 BC.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 71.2 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Academics, #Writer / Author, #Poetry, #Philosophy, #Literature, #Ancient History

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