Lucretius
1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher · Italy · Writers · Lived 94 BC to 55 BC · aged 39
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Something wrong?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.
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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.
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