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De Rerum Natura (Lucretius)
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/De_Rerum_Natura_(Lucretius)
GPTKB entity
Statements (52)
Predicate
Object
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:ancient_people
gptkb:disease
gptkb:Epicurean_physics
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
gptkb:didactic_poetry
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
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
De Rerum Natura (Lucretius)