Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English … 展开

Virtually nothing is known about the life of Lucretius, and there is insufficient basis for a confident assertion of the dates of Lucretius's birth or death in other sources. Another, yet briefer, note … 展开

• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, a modern historiography by Stephen Greenblatt
• List of English translations of De rerum natura
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Lucretius was an early thinker in what grew to become the study of evolution. He believed that nature experiments endlessly across the aeons, and the … 展开

• Bailey, C. (1947). "Prolegomena". Lucretius's De rerum natura.
• Barnes, Harry Elmer (1937). An Intellectual and Cultural … 展开

• "Lucretius" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1911.
• Works by Lucretius at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Lucretius at the Internet Archive
• Works by Lucretius at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) 展开