![]() ![]() ĭe rerum natura was a considerable influence on the Augustan poets, particularly Virgil (in his Aeneid and Georgics, and to a lesser extent on the Eclogues) and Horace. Very little is known about Lucretius's life the only certainty is that he was either a friend or client of Gaius Memmius, to whom the poem was addressed and dedicated. Lucretius has been credited with originating the concept of the three-age system that was formalised in 1836 by C. ![]() His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things-and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. Titus Lucretius Carus ( / ˈ t aɪ t ə s l uː ˈ k r iː ʃ ə s/ TY-təs loo- KREE-shəs, Latin: c. Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Pierre Gassendi, Baruch Spinoza, Stephen Greenblatt, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leopardi, Gilles Deleuze, Montaigne, Thomas Nail ![]()
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