when Lucretius died (discussed below), then it may be concluded he was born in 99 or 98 BC. Less specific estimates place the birth of Lucretius in the...

that Lucretius goes on to argue that the gods are removed from human life, many have thus seen this opening to be contradictory: how can Lucretius pray...

the full phrase's origin is attributed to De rerum natura, in which Lucretius uses the term as an epithet for an unnamed earth goddess: Denique caelesti...

somewhat uneven in places. To the northwest of Lucretius is a chain of craters called the Catena Lucretius. These extend for a distance of 271 km across...

Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu (Romanian pronunciation: [luˈkretsju pətrəʃˈkanu]; November 4, 1900 – April 17, 1954) was a Romanian communist politician and leading...

Decimus Lucretius Valens, mentioned in a graffito from Pompeii. Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus, father of the consuls of 509 and 508 BC. Spurius Lucretius T....

Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus was a politician and military leader in the early days of the Roman Republic. Twice, in the years 508 and 504 BC, he was...

Hostus Lucretius Tricipitinus was a consul of the Roman republic in 429 BC. Lucretius belonged to the ancient patrician Lucretia gens whose ancestors had...

we do not have his filiation, the name of Lucretius' father is unknown, but he may have been Publius Lucretius Tricipitinus, who was consular tribune in...

poet Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC), passionately assailed popular religion in his philosophical poem On the Nature of Things. In this poem, Lucretius declares...

Lucius Lucretius Trio was a Roman moneyer, who minted two denarii in c. 76 BCE. His coin showing the laureate head of Neptune is in the collections of...

to replace Brutus, and Lucretius was chosen as suffect consul in the same year, 509 BC. However, being of advanced age, Lucretius died a few days afterwards...

Publius Lucretius Tricipitinus was a consular tribune of the Roman Republic in 419 and 417 BC. Lucretius belonged to the Lucretia gens, one of the oldest...

death of Lucretius. Though writing after Walter Map, they did not mention Lucretius in connection with Lucilia. Rather, their accounts of Lucretius's death...

The House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto (Italian: Casa di Marco Lucrezio Frontone, V.4.a) is a Roman house in Pompeii with well-preserved wall paintings...

son of a Titus Lucretius, and grandson of Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus, consul in 508 and 504 BC. His complete name was Lucius Lucretius T.f. T.n. Tricipitinus...

Gnaeus Lucretius Trio was a Roman moneyer, who minted denarii in Rome c. 136 BC. He may be an ancestor of Lucius Lucretius Trio. One of his denarii shows...

Charaxes lucretius, the violet-washed charaxes or common red charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Ch. lucretius Cr. male. Wings above black...

Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. Roman philosophers include Cicero, Lucretius, Seneca the Younger, Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Augustine...

Quintus Lucretius Afella was a Roman general who served under the command of Lucius Cornelius Sulla during Sulla's second march on Rome. A loyal legate...

with Lucius Junius Brutus, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, and Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus. Winning over public opinion while the king was campaigning...

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The epic poem De rerum natura (Latin for "On the Nature of Things") by Lucretius presents the core arguments and theories of Epicureanism in one unified...

Lucilia may refer to: Lucilia (wife of Lucretius), the wife of Roman philosopher Lucretius Lucilia (fly), a greenbottle fly genus in the family Calliphoridae...

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Lucretius pointing to the casus, the downward movement of the atoms. In his work De rerum natura, Lucretius stated that everything consists of material...

didactic poem De rerum natura by Lucretius as a criticism of religion. Anticipating that his poem will seem sacrilegious, Lucretius attacks the virtue of religion...

derived from this town. Collatinus married Lucretia, daughter of Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus. According to legend, while Collatinus was away from home...

Quintus Lucretius Vespillo was a Roman senator and consul, whose career commenced during the late Roman Republic and concluded in the reign of emperor...

Milesian philosophers, a more common version of the expression was coined by Lucretius, who stated in his De rerum natura that "nothing can be created out of...