Lucretius

The Roman poet who turned Epicurus into hexameters and atoms into art.

Specifications & Metrics

era

c. 99 – 55 BC

language

Latin

region

Rome

notable works

De Rerum Natura

Core Principles & Analysis

• His one surviving work is the six-book De Rerum Natura.
• Jerome's late testimony on his life and death is all we have, and it is suspect.
• The poem's 1417 rediscovery made atomism readable again in the West.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Lucretius