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	Lucretius
		Titus Lucretius Carus (c 99-55 BCE) is known as the author of the poem, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things).
		In it, Lucretius argues that the darkness of the mind brought about by superstitious fears should be scattered by a dispassionate view of the inner laws of nature.
		Lucretius is among the few philosophers to have cast their exposition in poetic form.
	www.humanistictexts.org /lucretius.htm (4451 words)

	Lucretius (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Lucretius' own explanation of his choice of a poetic medium is that philosophy is medicine for the soul, and that the charms of verse can function like the honey that doctors smear on the rim of a cup of bitter medicine, to persuade children to drink it for their own good.
		Lucretius compares a flock of sheep on a distant hillside, which appears as a stationary white patch, even though close up the constituent sheep prove to be in motion (2.317-22).
		Lucretius was both admired and imitated by writers of the early Roman empire, and in the eyes of Roman patristic thinkers like Lactantius he came to be the leading spokesman of the godless Epicurean philosophy.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/lucretius (6159 words)

	Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) - LoveToKnow 1911
		According to this account the poet was born in 95 B.C.; he became mad in consequence of the administration of a love-philtre; and after composing several books in his lucid intervals, which were subsequently corrected by Cicero, he died by his own hand in the forty-fourth year of his age.
		It may well be assumed that Lucretius was a member of the Roman aristocracy, belonging either to a senatorian or to one of the great equestrian families.
		The inference that Lucretius belonged to this class is confirmed by the tone in which he addresses Gaius Memmius, a man of an eminent senatorian family, to whom the poem is dedicated.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lucretius_(Titus_Lucretius_Carus) (3644 words)

	Lucretius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lucretius was a Roman poet and the author of the philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), a comprehensive exposition of the Epicurean world-view.
		Of Lucretius’ life remarkably little is known: he was an accomplished poet; he lived during the first century BC; he was devoted to the teachings of Epicurus; and he apparently died before his magnum opus, De Rerum Natura, was completed.
		Lucretius dedicated his poem to him, and throughout the epic the poet is at pains to remind Memmius of the sweet rewards of the Epicurean lifestyle and the bitter tribulations of public life.
	www.philosophyprofessor.com /philosophers/lucretius.php (1027 words)

	Lucretius
		Titus Lucretius Carus was born at the very beginning of the first century B.C., he lived a life about which we know almost nothing except the odd fact that he died at the age of forty-four as the result of a "love potion" or drug of some sort.
		So Lucretius chose the verb nascor "be born" as approximating the Greek original, and derived from it a noun natura which he clearly meant to be the Latin equivalent of the Greek physis.
		Lucretius is faced with the difficult task of interpreting Greek atomism in Latin, which lacks familiarity with the basic concepts and also a suitable and exact vocabulary.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/LatinAuthors/Lucretius.html (1754 words)

	Lucretius Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Lucretius then refutes the rival systems of Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Anaxagoras and proves that the universe is infinite and that its two components are also infinite, atoms in number, space in extent.
		Lucretius maintains that it is necessary to use the charm of poetry to explain the nature of the universe just as doctors, when attempting to persuade children to drink bitter medicine, smear the rim of the cup with honey (1:933-950, 4:6-25).
		He has gained, Lucretius says, a lofty and serene sanctuary, well fortified by the teaching of the wise, from which he may view others in their futile struggle to reach the top in human affairs.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/lucretius (1159 words)

	Lucretius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) was a Roman poet and the author of the philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), a comprehensive exposition of the Epicurean world-view.
		Lucretius' principal philosophical shortcoming is that not only will he occasionally follow Epicurean doctrine to the point of absurdity (e.g., the supposedly tiny size of the sun and moon) but he will also introduce logical fallacies or scientific errors of his own (such as his claim that the atoms travel faster than light - 2.
		That Lucretius' ideas wound up two thousand years after his death influencing those of a godly British mathematical theorist and a highly original and even eccentric French scientist-priest is remarkable testimony to their durability, adaptability, and persuasive power.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/l/lucretiu.htm (5515 words)

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