De rerum natura (Latin: [deː ˈreːrʊn naːˈtuːraː]; On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius...
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De natura rerum may refer to: De rerum natura, a didactic poem by Lucretius De natura rerum (Bede), a treatise by Bede De natura rerum, a treatise by Isidore...
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Lucretius (section De rerum natura)
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...
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Poggio Bracciolini (section De rerum natura)
monastic libraries. His most celebrated finds are De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius, De architectura by Vitruvius, lost orations by Cicero...
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De rerum natura (usually translated as On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical epic poem written by Lucretius in Latin around 55 BCE. The poem was...
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De natura rerum (or Liber de natura rerum) is a thirteenth century work of natural history, written by Flemish Roman Catholic friar and medieval writer...
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later) was composed in 1966. The title was inspired by Lucretius's De rerum natura (On the nature of things). As the title suggests, it is a vigorous...
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extended treatment of Epicurean sexuality in his philosophical work De rerum natura; Catullus (fl. 50s BC), whose poems explore a range of erotic experience...
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attestations of his ideas from his later disciples. The epic poem De rerum natura (Latin for "On the Nature of Things") by Lucretius presents the core...
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Oxford Latin Dictionary, the full phrase's origin is attributed to De rerum natura, in which Lucretius uses the term as an epithet for an unnamed earth...
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orator and poet. He is most famous as the dedicatee of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, and for his appearances in the poetry of Catullus. Memmius was born...
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and the first person to translate the complete text of Lucretius's De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) into English verse, during the years of the...
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Alfonso III Carafa, Duke of Nocera. In 1565 appeared his great work De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia (On the Nature of Things according to their...
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obsessive book hunter, saved the last copy of the Roman poet Lucretius's De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) from near-terminal neglect in a German monastery...
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summer months Roman Epicurean poet Lucretius opened his didactic poem De rerum natura by addressing Venus as a veritable mother of nature. Lucretius used...
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Lucretius (De rerum natura, 5.198–9) as having one of the strongest arguments for atheism: Nequaquam nobis divinitus esse paratam Naturam rerum; tanta stat...
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version of the expression was coined by Lucretius, who stated in his De rerum natura that "nothing can be created out of nothing". Alternatives to creatio...
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Callimachus's hymns. In Latin famous works include Lucretius's philosophical De rerum natura, Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, book 10 of Columella's manual on agriculture...
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Horace, Satires 2, VI. 114. Lucan, Pharsalia, IV. 440. Lucretius, De rerum natura, V. 1063. Martial, Epigram, XII. I. 1. Nemesianus, Cynegetica, 107...
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Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 161. De Rerum Natura III Revue archéologique, 1904 Sansonese, J. Nigro. The Body of Myth...
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De natura rerum ("on the nature of things") is a treatise by the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede, composed in 703 as a companion-piece to his De temporibus ('on...
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rediscovered in the 15th century by Poggio Bracciolini among works such as De Rerum natura. Many artists attempted to design figures which would satisfy Vitruvius'...
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the people in 66 BC, and believed to be the dedicatee of Lucretius' De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) Gaius Memmius (proconsul of Macedonia), Roman...
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upon it, circumscribed by a Latin inscription from Lucretius' poem De rerum natura "Noscere quae vis et causa". The reverse had the Latin inscription...
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Denis Lambin (category People from Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais)
"Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex (Montaigne.1.4.4)". Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Peter Lazer, De Dionysio Lambino narratio...
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160–169. De Rerum Natura, Book V, about Line 800 ff. The translator is Ronald Latham. De Rerum Natura, Book V, around Line 1200 ff. De Rerum Natura, Book...
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was Lucretius' Epicurean epic De rerum natura. G. B. Conte notes, citing the programmatic statement "Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" in Georgics...
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inspiration for the painting seems to have been the poem by Lucretius "De rerum natura", which includes the lines, "Spring-time and Venus come, and Venus'...
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use it. What happens to exist is the cause of its use. — Lucretius, De rerum natura [On the Nature of Things] 4, 833 The chief instance, and the largest...
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esse omnino Diagoras et Theodorus Cyrenaicus ... Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De natura deorum. Comments and English text by Richard D. McKirahan. Thomas Library...
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