De Rerum Natura (Lucretius)

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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
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