Lucretius
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Lucretius was a 1st-century BCE Roman poet and philosopher best known for his didactic epic "De rerum natura," which expounds Epicurean physics and ethics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lucretius canonical | 23 |
| Titus Lucretius Carus | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Epicurean philosopher
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Roman philosopher ⓘ Roman poet ⓘ person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| aimOfWork |
to free humans from fear of death
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to free humans from fear of gods ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| deathCentury | 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| genre |
didactic poetry
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philosophical poetry ⓘ |
| historicalReputation |
key source for Epicurean doctrine
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major Latin poet ⓘ |
| influenced |
Baruch Spinoza
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Cicero ⓘ Denis Diderot ⓘ Enlightenment thinkers ⓘ Giordano Bruno ⓘ Michel de Montaigne ⓘ
surface form:
Montaigne
Ovid ⓘ Pierre Gassendi ⓘ Thomas Hobbes ⓘ Virgil ⓘ modern materialism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Democritus
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Epicurus ⓘ Presocratic philosophers ⓘ
surface form:
Pre-Socratic atomists
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| language | Latin ⓘ |
| movement | Epicureanism ⓘ |
| name |
Lucretius
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Titus Lucretius Carus
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| notableWork | De rerum natura ⓘ |
| philosophicalPosition |
atomism
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denial of immortality of the soul ⓘ hedonistic ethics ⓘ materialism ⓘ rejection of divine providence ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Epicureanism ⓘ |
| workForm | hexameter poem ⓘ |
| workLength | six books ⓘ |
| workSubject |
Epicurean ethics
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Epicureanism ⓘ
surface form:
Epicurean physics
atomism ⓘ fear of death ⓘ nature of the universe ⓘ religion and superstition ⓘ soul and mortality ⓘ |
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Titus Lucretius Carus