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.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| 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
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| citizenship |
Roman Republic
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| deathCentury |
1st century BCE
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| 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 → Montaigne → Ovid → Pierre Gassendi → Thomas Hobbes → Virgil → modern materialism → |
| influencedBy |
Democritus
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Epicurus → Pre-Socratic atomists → |
| language |
Latin
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| movement |
Epicureanism
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| name |
Titus Lucretius Carus
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| notableWork |
De rerum natura
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| philosophicalPosition |
atomism
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denial of immortality of the soul → hedonistic ethics → materialism → rejection of divine providence → |
| philosophicalSchool |
Epicureanism
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| workForm |
hexameter poem
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| workLength |
six books
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| workSubject |
Epicurean ethics
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Epicurean physics → atomism → fear of death → nature of the universe → religion and superstition → soul and mortality → |
Referenced by (9)
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Democritus
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Empedocles → Epicureanism → Epicurus → |
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Michel de Montaigne
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Sully Prudhomme → Virgil → |
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Lucretius
("Titus Lucretius Carus")
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name |
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Epicureanism
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primaryTextAuthor |