De Rerum Natura (Lucretius)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/De_Rerum_Natura_(Lucretius)
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:author gptkb:Lucretius
gptkbp:category gptkb:Ancient_Roman_literature
Epicurean texts
Philosophical poems
gptkbp:dateWritten 1st century BCE
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:Gaius_Memmius
gptkbp:explains gptkb:disease
gptkb:Epicurean_physics
ancient people
natural phenomena
sensory perception
end of the world
nature of the gods
origin of the world
Epicurean ethics
nature of the mind
love and desire
Epicurean epistemology
gptkbp:form hexameter
gptkbp:genre didactic poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label De Rerum Natura (Lucretius)
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Galileo_Galilei
gptkb:Giordano_Bruno
gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkb:Karl_Marx
gptkb:Ovid
gptkb:Virgil
gptkb:Montaigne
gptkb:Pierre_Gassendi
gptkbp:language gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:manuscriptDiscovery rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1417
gptkbp:notableRelease A. E. Stallings translation
Martin Ferguson Smith translation
Rolfe Humphries translation
William Ellery Leonard translation
gptkbp:numberOfBooks 6
gptkbp:philosophicalTheme gptkb:cosmology
ethics
materialism
mortality
atomism
fear of death
nature of the soul
gptkbp:preservedIn Codex Oblongus
Codex Quadratus
Codex S
gptkbp:structure six books
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Epicurean_philosophy
gptkbp:title gptkb:On_the_Nature_of_Things
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Ceres_(Roman_goddess_of_agriculture)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8