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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3" title="لوكريتيوس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="لوكريتيوس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucrecio" title="Lucrecio – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Lucrecio" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucr%C3%A8cio" title="Lucrècio – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Lucrècio" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukresi" title="Lukresi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Lukresi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%B8" title="লুক্রেতিউস – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="লুক্রেতিউস" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8D%D1%86%D1%8B%D0%B9" title="Лукрэцый – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Лукрэцый" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%82_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Тит Лукреций Кар – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Тит Лукреций Кар" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Lucretius_Carus" title="Titus Lucretius Carus – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Titus Lucretius Carus" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucreci" title="Lucreci – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Lucreci" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Лукреций – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Лукреций" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Lucretius_Carus" title="Titus Lucretius Carus – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Titus Lucretius Carus" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukrets" title="Lukrets – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Lukrets" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukrez" title="Lukrez – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Lukrez" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Lucretius" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82" title="Λουκρήτιος – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Λουκρήτιος" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucrecio" title="Lucrecio – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Lucrecio" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukrecio" title="Lukrecio – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Lukrecio" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Lukrezio_Karo" title="Tito Lukrezio Karo – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Tito Lukrezio Karo" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3" title="لوکرتیوس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="لوکرتیوس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucr%C3%A8ce" title="Lucrèce – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Lucrèce" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukretius" title="Lukretius – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Lukretius" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucrezi" title="Lucrezi – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" data-title="Lucrezi" data-language-autonym="Furlan" data-language-local-name="Friulian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Furlan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucrecio" title="Lucrecio – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Lucrecio" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A3%A8%ED%81%AC%EB%A0%88%ED%8B%B0%EC%9A%B0%EC%8A%A4" title="루크레티우스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="루크레티우스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8F%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BD_%D4%BC%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AF%D6%80%D5%A5%D6%81%D5%AB%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BD_%D4%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BD" title="Տիտուս Լուկրեցիուս Կարուս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Տիտուս Լուկրեցիուս Կարուս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%B8" title="लुक्रेतिउस – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="लुक्रेतिउस" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukrecije" title="Lukrecije – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Lukrecije" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Lucretius" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Lucretius" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcret%C3%ADus" title="Lúcretíus – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Lúcretíus" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Lucrezio_Caro" title="Tito Lucrezio Caro – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Tito Lucrezio Caro" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1" title="לוקרטיוס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="לוקרטיוס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A3%E1%83%99%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="ლუკრეციუსი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ლუკრეციუსი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Лукреций – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Лукреций" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Lucretius" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%82_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Тит Лукреций Кар – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Тит Лукреций Кар" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Lucretius" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukr%C4%93cijs" title="Lukrēcijs – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Lukrēcijs" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titas_Lukrecijus_Karas" title="Titas Lukrecijus Karas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Titas Lukrecijus Karas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucr%C3%A9%C3%A7io" title="Lucréçio – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Lucréçio" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Lucretius_Carus" title="Titus Lucretius Carus – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Titus Lucretius Carus" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Lucretius_Carus" title="Titus Lucretius Carus – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Titus Lucretius Carus" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%82_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Тит Лукрециј Кар – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Тит Лукрециј Кар" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a 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For other people named Lucretius, see <a href="/wiki/Lucretia_gens" title="Lucretia gens">Lucretia gens</a>. 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From the frontispiece to <i>Of the Nature of Things</i>, 1682</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 99 BC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 55 BC (aged around 44)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Era</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_philosophy" title="Hellenistic philosophy">Hellenistic philosophy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_of_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="List of schools of philosophy">School</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Epicureanism" title="Epicureanism">Epicureanism</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Atomism" title="Atomism">Atomism</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">Materialism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Main interests</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">Ethics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Atomic_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Atomic theory">atomic theory</a><sup id="cite_ref-DRNV1200_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DRNV1200-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Titus Lucretius Carus</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span><span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">TY</span>-təs loo-<span style="font-size:90%">KREE</span>-shəs</i></a>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Latin:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="la-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Latin" title="Help:IPA/Latin">[ˈtitus<span class="wrap"> </span>luˈkreːti.us<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈkaːrus]</a></span>; <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 99</span> – <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 55 BC</span>) was a <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman</a> <a href="/wiki/Roman_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman literature">poet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_philosophy" title="Ancient Roman philosophy">philosopher</a>. His only known work is the philosophical poem <i><a href="/wiki/De_rerum_natura" title="De rerum natura">De rerum natura</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Didactic" class="mw-redirect" title="Didactic">didactic</a> work about the <a href="/wiki/Tenets" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Tenets">tenets</a> and philosophy of <a href="/wiki/Epicureanism" title="Epicureanism">Epicureanism</a>, which usually is translated into English as <i>On the Nature of Things</i>—and somewhat less often as <i>On the Nature of the Universe</i>. Very little is known about Lucretius's life; the only certainty is that he was either a friend or <a href="/wiki/Patronage_in_ancient_Rome" title="Patronage in ancient Rome">client</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Memmius_(praetor_58_BC)" title="Gaius Memmius (praetor 58 BC)">Gaius Memmius</a>, to whom the poem was addressed and dedicated.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008xii_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008xii-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>De rerum natura</i> was a considerable influence on the <a href="/wiki/Augustan_poetry" title="Augustan poetry">Augustan poets</a>, particularly <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> (in his <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Georgics" title="Georgics">Georgics</a></i>, and to a lesser extent on the <i><a href="/wiki/Eclogues" title="Eclogues">Eclogues</a></i>) and <a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work was almost lost during the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, but was rediscovered in 1417 in a monastery in Germany<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGreenblatt200944_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenblatt200944-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by <a href="/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini" title="Poggio Bracciolini">Poggio Bracciolini</a> and it played an important role both in the development of <a href="/wiki/Atomism" title="Atomism">atomism</a> (Lucretius was an important influence on <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Gassendi" title="Pierre Gassendi">Pierre Gassendi</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the efforts of various figures of the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment era</a> to construct a new <a href="/wiki/Christian_humanism" title="Christian humanism">Christian humanism</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucretius&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:20em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>And now, good Memmius, receptive ears <br /> And keen intelligence detached from cares <br /> I pray you bring to true philosophy </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style=""><i>De rerum natura</i> (tr. Melville) 1.50</cite></p> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:20em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>If I must speak, my noble Memmius, <br /> As nature's majesty now known demands </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style=""><i>De rerum natura</i> (tr. Melville) 5.6</cite></p> </div> <p>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 is found in the <i><a href="/wiki/Chronicon_(Jerome)" title="Chronicon (Jerome)">Chronicon</a></i> of Donatus's pupil, <a href="/wiki/Jerome" title="Jerome">Jerome</a>. Writing four centuries after Lucretius's death, he enters under the 171st <a href="/wiki/Olympiad" title="Olympiad">Olympiad</a>: "Titus Lucretius the poet is born."<sup id="cite_ref-chronicon_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chronicon-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If Jerome is accurate about Lucretius's age (43) when Lucretius died (discussed below), then it may be concluded he was born in 99 or 98 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBailey19471–3_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBailey19471–3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith1992x–xi_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith1992x–xi-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Less specific estimates place the birth of Lucretius in the 90s BC and his death in the 50s BC,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKenney19716_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKenney19716-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECosta1984ix_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECosta1984ix-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in agreement with the poem's many <a href="/wiki/Allusion" title="Allusion">allusions</a> to the tumultuous state of political affairs in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> and its <a href="/wiki/Roman_civil_wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman civil wars">civil strife</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Titi_Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Titi_Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.jpg/220px-Titi_Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="299" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Titi_Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.jpg/330px-Titi_Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Titi_Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.jpg/440px-Titi_Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.jpg 2x" data-file-width="597" data-file-height="812" /></a><figcaption>Start of late 15th-century illuminated manuscript of <i><a href="/wiki/De_rerum_natura" title="De rerum natura">De rerum natura</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>Lucretius probably was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Aristocratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Aristocratic">aristocratic</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Lucretia_gens" title="Lucretia gens">gens Lucretia</a></i>, and his work shows an intimate knowledge of the luxurious lifestyle in Rome.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008Foreword_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008Foreword-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucretius's love of the countryside invites speculation that he inhabited family-owned rural estates, as did many wealthy Roman families, and he certainly was expensively educated with a mastery of Latin, Greek, literature, and philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008Foreword_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008Foreword-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A brief biographical note is found in <a href="/wiki/Aelius_Donatus" title="Aelius Donatus">Aelius Donatus</a>'s <i>Life of <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a></i>, which seems to be derived from an earlier work by <a href="/wiki/Suetonius" title="Suetonius">Suetonius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorsfall20003_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorsfall20003-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The note reads: "The first years of his life Virgil spent in Cremona until the assumption of his <i><a href="/wiki/Toga_virilis" class="mw-redirect" title="Toga virilis">toga virilis</a></i> on his 17th birthday (when the same two men held the <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consulate</a> as when he was born), and it so happened that on the very same day Lucretius the poet passed away." However, although Lucretius certainly lived and died around the time that Virgil and Cicero <a href="/wiki/Fl." class="mw-redirect" title="Fl.">flourished</a>, the information in this particular testimony is internally inconsistent: if Virgil was born in 70 BC, his 17th birthday would be in 53. The two consuls of 70 BC, <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus" title="Marcus Licinius Crassus">Crassus</a>, stood together as consuls again in 55, not 53. </p><p>Another note regarding Lucretius's biography is found in Jerome's <i>Chronicon</i>, where he contends that Lucretius "was driven mad by a love <a href="/wiki/Potion" title="Potion">potion</a>, and when, during the intervals of his insanity, he had written a number of books, which were later emended by Cicero, he killed himself by his own hand in the 44th year of his life."<sup id="cite_ref-chronicon_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chronicon-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The claim that he was driven mad by a love potion, although defended by such scholars as Reale and Catan,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERealeCatan1980414_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERealeCatan1980414-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is often dismissed as the result of historical confusion,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008xii_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008xii-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or anti-Epicurean bias.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2011vii_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2011vii-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some accounts the administration of the toxic aphrodisiac is attributed to his wife <a href="/wiki/Lucilia_(wife_of_Lucretius)" title="Lucilia (wife of Lucretius)">Lucilia</a>. Regardless, Jerome's image of Lucretius as a lovesick, mad poet continued to have significant influence on modern scholarship until quite recently, although it now is accepted that such a report is inaccurate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGale20072_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGale20072-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="De_rerum_natura"><i>De rerum natura</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucretius&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: De rerum natura"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/De_rerum_natura" title="De rerum natura">De rerum natura</a></div> <p>His poem <i>De rerum natura</i> (usually translated as "On the Nature of Things" or "On the Nature of the Universe") transmits the ideas of <a href="/wiki/Epicureanism" title="Epicureanism">Epicureanism</a>, which includes <a href="/wiki/Atomism" title="Atomism">atomism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cosmology" title="Cosmology">cosmology</a>. Lucretius was the first writer known to introduce Roman readers to Epicurean philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGale200735_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGale200735-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The poem, written in some 7,400 <a href="/wiki/Dactylic_hexameter" title="Dactylic hexameter">dactylic hexameters</a>, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through richly poetic language and <a href="/wiki/Metaphor" title="Metaphor">metaphors</a>. Lucretius presents the principles of <a href="/wiki/Atomism" title="Atomism">atomism</a>, the nature of the mind and <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>, explanations of sensation and thought, the development of the world and its <a href="/wiki/Phenomena" class="mw-redirect" title="Phenomena">phenomena</a>, and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial <a href="/wiki/Phenomena" class="mw-redirect" title="Phenomena">phenomena</a>. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by <i>fortuna</i>, "chance", and not the <a href="/wiki/Divine_intervention" title="Divine intervention">divine intervention</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome" title="Religion in ancient Rome">traditional Roman deities</a><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the religious explanations of the natural world. </p><p>Within this work, Lucretius makes reference to the cultural and technological development of humans in his use of available materials, tools, and weapons through prehistory to Lucretius's own time. He specifies the earliest weapons as hands, nails, and teeth. These were followed by stones, branches, and fire (once humans could kindle and control it). He then refers to "tough iron" and copper in that order, but goes on to say that copper was the primary means of tilling the soil and the basis of weaponry until, "by slow degrees", the iron sword became predominant (it still was in his day) and "the bronze sickle fell into disrepute" as iron ploughs were introduced.<sup id="cite_ref-DRNV1200_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DRNV1200-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had earlier envisaged a pre-technological, pre-literary kind of human whose life was lived "in the fashion of wild beasts roaming at large".<sup id="cite_ref-DRNV940_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DRNV940-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From this beginning, he theorised, there followed the development in turn of crude huts, use and kindling of fire, clothing, language, family, and <a href="/wiki/City-state" title="City-state">city-states</a>. He believed that smelting of metal, and perhaps too, the firing of pottery, was discovered by accident: for example, the result of a forest fire. He does specify, however, that the use of copper followed the use of stones and branches and preceded the use of iron.<sup id="cite_ref-DRNV940_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DRNV940-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Lucretius seems to equate copper with <a href="/wiki/Bronze" title="Bronze">bronze</a>, an alloy of copper and tin that has much greater resilience than copper; both copper and bronze were superseded by iron during his millennium (1000 BC to 1 BC). He may have considered bronze to be a stronger variety of copper and not necessarily a wholly individual material. Lucretius is believed to be the first to put forward a theory of the successive uses of first wood and stone, then copper and bronze, and finally iron. Although his theory lay dormant for many centuries, it was revived in the nineteenth century and he has been credited with originating the concept of the <a href="/wiki/Three-age_system" title="Three-age system">three-age system</a> that was formalised from 1834 by <a href="/wiki/Christian_J%C3%BCrgensen_Thomsen" title="Christian Jürgensen Thomsen">C. J. Thomsen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:T._Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.tif" class="mw-file-description" title="De rerum natura (1570)"><img alt="De rerum natura (1570)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/T._Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.tif/lossy-page1-73px-T._Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="73" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/T._Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.tif/lossy-page1-109px-T._Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/T._Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.tif/lossy-page1-146px-T._Lucretii_Cari_De_rerum_natura.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2704" data-file-height="4454" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>De rerum natura</i> (1570)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Carus-3.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1754 copy of De rerum natura"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Carus-3.jpg/96px-Carus-3.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Carus-3.jpg/144px-Carus-3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Carus-3.jpg/192px-Carus-3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3123" data-file-height="3900" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">1754 copy of <i>De rerum natura</i></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Carus-4.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Frontispiece of a 1754 copy of De rerum natura"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Carus-4.jpg/120px-Carus-4.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Carus-4.jpg/180px-Carus-4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Carus-4.jpg/240px-Carus-4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3358" data-file-height="3051" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Frontispiece of a 1754 copy of <i>De rerum natura</i></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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He believed that nature experiments endlessly across the aeons, and the organisms that adapt best to their environment have the best chance of surviving. Living organisms survived because of the commensurate relationship between their strength, speed, or intellect and the external dynamics of their environment. Prior to <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a>'s 1859 publication of <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species" title="On the Origin of Species">On the Origin of Species</a></i>, the natural philosophy of Lucretius typified one of the foremost non-<a href="/wiki/Teleology" title="Teleology">teleological</a> and mechanistic accounts of the creation and evolution of life.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast to modern thought on the subject, he did not believe that new species evolved from previously existing ones. Lucretius challenged the assumption that humans are necessarily superior to animals, noting that mammalian mothers in the wild recognize and nurture their offspring as do human mothers.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite his advocacy of <a href="/wiki/Empiricism" title="Empiricism">empiricism</a> and his many correct conjectures about atomism and the nature of the physical world, Lucretius concludes his first book stressing the absurdity of the (by then well-established) <a href="/wiki/Spherical_Earth" title="Spherical Earth">spherical Earth</a> theory<sup id="cite_ref-Hannam-Aeon_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hannam-Aeon-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as it related to the personally favored infinite Earth hypothesis which did not make reference to outer bodies.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While <a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a> left open the possibility for <a href="/wiki/Free_will" title="Free will">free will</a> by arguing for the <a href="/wiki/Brownian_motion" title="Brownian motion">uncertainty of the paths of atoms</a>, Lucretius viewed the soul or mind as emerging from fortuitous arrangements of distinct particles.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucretius&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Swerve:_How_the_World_Became_Modern" class="mw-redirect" title="The Swerve: How the World Became Modern">The Swerve: How the World Became Modern</a></i>, a modern <a href="/wiki/Historiography" title="Historiography">historiography</a> by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Greenblatt" title="Stephen Greenblatt">Stephen Greenblatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_English_translations_of_De_rerum_natura" title="List of English translations of De rerum natura">List of English translations of <i>De rerum natura</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Javelin_argument" title="Javelin argument">Javelin argument</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucretius&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-subiecit_pedibus-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-subiecit_pedibus_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <i>subiecit pedibus</i>; cf. Lucretius 1.78: <i>religio pedibus subiecta</i>, "religion lies cast beneath our feet"</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucretius&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-DRNV1200-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DRNV1200_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DRNV1200_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFLucretius" class="citation book cs1"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lucretius</a>. <i>De rerum natura, Book V, around Line 1200 ff</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=De+rerum+natura%2C+Book+V%2C+around+Line+1200+ff.&rft.au=Lucretius&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucretius" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008xii-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008xii_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008xii_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMelvilleFowler2008">Melville & Fowler (2008)</a>, p. xii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reckford, K. J. <i>Some studies in Horace's <a href="/wiki/Ode" title="Ode">odes</a> on love</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenblatt200944-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGreenblatt200944_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGreenblatt2009">Greenblatt (2009)</a>, p. 44.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFisher2009" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Fisher, Saul (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2009/entries/gassendi/">"Pierre Gassendi"</a>. <i>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Pierre+Gassendi&rft.btitle=Stanford+Encyclopedia+of+Philosophy&rft.date=2009&rft.aulast=Fisher&rft.aufirst=Saul&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fplato.stanford.edu%2Farchives%2Fwin2009%2Fentries%2Fgassendi%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucretius" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-chronicon-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-chronicon_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-chronicon_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Jerome" title="Jerome">Jerome</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Chronicon_(Jerome)" title="Chronicon (Jerome)">Chronicon</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBailey19471–3-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBailey19471–3_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBailey1947">Bailey (1947)</a>, pp. 1–3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith1992x–xi-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith1992x–xi_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith1992">Smith (1992)</a>, pp. x–xi.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKenney19716-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKenney19716_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKenney1971">Kenney (1971)</a>, p. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECosta1984ix-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECosta1984ix_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCosta1984">Costa (1984)</a>, p. ix.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008Foreword-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008Foreword_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMelvilleFowler2008Foreword_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMelvilleFowler2008">Melville & Fowler (2008)</a>, Foreword.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorsfall20003-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorsfall20003_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHorsfall2000">Horsfall (2000)</a>, p. 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERealeCatan1980414-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERealeCatan1980414_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRealeCatan1980">Reale & Catan (1980)</a>, p. 414.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2011vii-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2011vii_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith2011">Smith (2011)</a>, p. vii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGale20072-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGale20072_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGale2007">Gale (2007)</a>, p. 2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGale200735-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGale200735_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGale2007">Gale (2007)</a>, p. 35.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In particular, <i>De rerum natura</i> 5.107 (<i>fortuna gubernans</i>, "guiding chance" or "fortune at the helm"): see Monica R. Gale, <i>Myth and Poetry in Lucretius</i> (Cambridge University Press, 1994, 1996 reprint), pp. 213, 223–224 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gf8k02Iud74C&q=%22there+is+no+divine+providence%22">online</a> and <i>Lucretius</i> (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 238 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mHadLr3QVUMC&dq=%22the+necessity+of+its+process+through+its+physics%22&pg=PA238">online.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DRNV940-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DRNV940_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DRNV940_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLucretius" class="citation book cs1"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lucretius</a>. <i>De rerum natura, Book V, around line 940 ff</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=De+rerum+natura%2C+Book+V%2C+around+line+940+ff.&rft.au=Lucretius&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucretius" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barnes, pp. 27–28.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECicero2.9-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECicero2.9_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCicero">Cicero</a>, 2.9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith1975intro-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith1975intro_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith1975">Smith (1975)</a>, intro.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEVirgil2.490-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVirgil2.490_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFVirgil">Virgil</a>, 2.490.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCampbell2003" class="citation book cs1">Campbell, Gordon (2003). <i>Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on De rerum natura 5.772-1104</i>. 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Princeton University Press. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/edgeofobjectivit00char/page/98">98</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-691-02350-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-691-02350-6"><bdi>0-691-02350-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Edge+of+Objectivity%3A+An+Essay+in+the+History+of+Scientific+Ideas&rft.pages=98&rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&rft.date=1960&rft.isbn=0-691-02350-6&rft.aulast=Gillispie&rft.aufirst=Charles+Coulston&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fedgeofobjectivit00char%2Fpage%2F98&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucretius" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucretius&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/De_rerum_natura#Editions" title="De rerum natura">De_rerum_natura § Editions</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBailey1947" class="citation book cs1">Bailey, C. 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Cambridge University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-29177-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-29177-4"><bdi>978-0-521-29177-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Introduction&rft.btitle=Lucretius%3A+De+rerum+natura&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1971&rft.isbn=978-0-521-29177-4&rft.aulast=Kenney&rft.aufirst=E.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucretius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMelvilleFowler2008" class="citation book cs1">Melville, Ronald; Fowler, Don and Peta, eds. (2008) [1999]. <i>Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe</i>. Oxford World's Classics. 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SUNY Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Ancient+Philosophy%3A+The+Systems+of+the+Hellenistic+Age&rft.pub=SUNY+Press&rft.date=1980&rft.aulast=Reale&rft.aufirst=G.&rft.au=Catan%2C+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucretius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSantayana1910" class="citation web cs1">Santayana, George (1910). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/threephilosophic00santuoft">"Three philosophical poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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"Introduction". <i>De rerum natura</i>. <a href="/wiki/Loeb_Classical_Library" title="Loeb Classical Library">Loeb Classical Library</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Introduction&rft.btitle=De+rerum+natura&rft.pub=Loeb+Classical+Library&rft.date=1992&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucretius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith1975" class="citation book cs1">Smith, M. F. (1975). <i>De rerum natura</i>. Loeb Classical Library.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=De+rerum+natura&rft.pub=Loeb+Classical+Library&rft.date=1975&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=M.+F.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucretius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith2011" class="citation book cs1">Smith, M. F. (2011) [2001]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iKdij3ErDnMC"><i>Lucretius, On the Nature of Things</i></a>. Hackett. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87220-587-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87220-587-1"><bdi>978-0-87220-587-1</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 May</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lucretius%2C+On+the+Nature+of+Things&rft.pub=Hackett&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-87220-587-1&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=M.+F.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DiKdij3ErDnMC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucretius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStearns1931" class="citation journal cs1">Stearns, J. B. (December 1931). "Lucretius and Memmius". <i>The Classical Weekly</i>. <b>25</b> (9): 67–68. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F4389660">10.2307/4389660</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4389660">4389660</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Classical+Weekly&rft.atitle=Lucretius+and+Memmius&rft.volume=25&rft.issue=9&rft.pages=67-68&rft.date=1931-12&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F4389660&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F4389660%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Stearns&rft.aufirst=J.+B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucretius" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVirgil" class="citation web cs1">Virgil. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilGeorgicsII.htm#_Toc533843195">"Georgics"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="Plebeians">Plebs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conflict_of_the_Orders" title="Conflict of the Orders">Conflict of the Orders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secessio_plebis" title="Secessio plebis">Secessio plebis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equites" title="Equites">Equites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gens" title="Gens">Gens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_tribe" title="Roman tribe">Tribes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tribal_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribal Assembly">Assembly</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patronage_in_ancient_Rome" title="Patronage in ancient Rome">Patronage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_naming_conventions" title="Roman naming conventions">Naming conventions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire" title="Demography of the Roman Empire">Demography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Rome" title="Women in ancient Rome">Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marriage_in_ancient_Rome" title="Marriage in ancient Rome">Marriage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adoption_in_ancient_Rome" title="Adoption in ancient Rome">Adoption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome" title="Slavery in ancient Rome">Slavery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagaudae" title="Bagaudae">Bagaudae</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_technology" title="Ancient Roman technology">Technology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_amphitheatre" title="Roman amphitheatre">Amphitheatres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_aqueduct" title="Roman aqueduct">Aqueducts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_bridge" title="Roman bridge">Bridges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_circus" title="Roman circus">Circuses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_engineering" title="Ancient Roman engineering">Civil engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_concrete" title="Roman concrete">Concrete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Roman_and_Byzantine_domes" title="History of Roman and Byzantine domes">Domes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_metallurgy" title="Roman metallurgy">Metallurgy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_numerals" title="Roman numerals">Numerals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_roads" title="Roman roads">Roads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanitation_in_ancient_Rome" title="Sanitation in ancient Rome">Sanitation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ships_of_ancient_Rome" title="Ships of ancient Rome">Ships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_temple" title="Roman temple">Temples</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_theatre_(structure)" title="Roman theatre (structure)">Theatres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thermae" title="Thermae">Thermae</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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title="Romance languages">Romance languages</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Writers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Latin</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aelius_Donatus" title="Aelius Donatus">Aelius Donatus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ammianus_Marcellinus" title="Ammianus Marcellinus">Ammianus Marcellinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Appuleius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Asconius_Pedianus" title="Quintus Asconius Pedianus">Asconius Pedianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurelius_Victor" title="Aurelius Victor">Aurelius Victor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ausonius" title="Ausonius">Ausonius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boethius" title="Boethius">Boëthius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Caesar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catullus" title="Catullus">Catullus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassiodorus" title="Cassiodorus">Cassiodorus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorinus" title="Censorinus">Censorinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudian" title="Claudian">Claudian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columella" title="Columella">Columella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornelius_Nepos" title="Cornelius Nepos">Cornelius Nepos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ennius" title="Ennius">Ennius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eutropius_(historian)" title="Eutropius (historian)">Eutropius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Pictor" title="Quintus Fabius Pictor">Fabius Pictor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sextus_Pompeius_Festus" title="Sextus Pompeius Festus">Sextus Pompeius Festus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Festus_(historian)" title="Festus (historian)">Rufus Festus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Works_attributed_to_Florus" class="mw-redirect" title="Works attributed to Florus">Florus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontinus" title="Frontinus">Frontinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Cornelius_Fronto" title="Marcus Cornelius Fronto">Fronto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabius_Planciades_Fulgentius" title="Fabius Planciades Fulgentius">Fulgentius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aulus_Gellius" title="Aulus Gellius">Gellius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hydatius" title="Hydatius">Hydatius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Hyginus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome" title="Jerome">Jerome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordanes" title="Jordanes">Jordanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Paulus" title="Julius Paulus">Julius Paulus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_(historian)" title="Justin (historian)">Justin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lactantius" title="Lactantius">Lactantius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucan" title="Lucan">Lucan</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lucretius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macrobius" title="Macrobius">Macrobius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcellus_Empiricus" title="Marcellus Empiricus">Marcellus Empiricus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" title="Marcus Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Manilius" title="Marcus Manilius">Manilius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolaus_of_Damascus" title="Nicolaus of Damascus">Nicolaus Damascenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonius_Marcellus" title="Nonius Marcellus">Nonius Marcellus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Obsequens" title="Julius Obsequens">Obsequens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orosius" title="Orosius">Orosius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petronius" title="Petronius">Petronius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phaedrus_(fabulist)" title="Phaedrus (fabulist)">Phaedrus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger" title="Pliny the Younger">Pliny the Younger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pomponius_Mela" title="Pomponius Mela">Pomponius Mela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priscian" title="Priscian">Priscian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propertius" title="Propertius">Propertius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Claudius_Quadrigarius" title="Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius">Quadrigarius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintilian" title="Quintilian">Quintilian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Curtius_Rufus" title="Quintus Curtius Rufus">Quintus Curtius Rufus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sallust" title="Sallust">Sallust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Elder" title="Seneca the Elder">Seneca the Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurus Servius Honoratus">Servius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidonius_Apollinaris" title="Sidonius Apollinaris">Sidonius Apollinaris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silius_Italicus" title="Silius Italicus">Silius Italicus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Statius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suetonius" title="Suetonius">Suetonius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Aurelius_Symmachus" title="Quintus Aurelius Symmachus">Symmachus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terence" title="Terence">Terence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tertullian" title="Tertullian">Tertullian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibullus" title="Tibullus">Tibullus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valerius_Antias" title="Valerius Antias">Valerius Antias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valerius_Maximus" title="Valerius Maximus">Valerius Maximus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro" title="Marcus Terentius Varro">Varro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velleius_Paterculus" title="Velleius Paterculus">Velleius Paterculus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verrius_Flaccus" title="Verrius Flaccus">Verrius Flaccus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Vergil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_literature" title="Ancient Greek literature">Greek</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Claudius_Aelianus" title="Claudius Aelianus">Aelian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A%C3%ABtius_of_Amida" title="Aëtius of Amida">Aëtius of Amida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appian" title="Appian">Appian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arrian" title="Arrian">Arrian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassius_Dio" title="Cassius Dio">Cassius Dio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius" class="mw-redirect" title="Diogenes Laërtius">Diogenes Laërtius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus" title="Dionysius of Halicarnassus">Dionysius of Halicarnassus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedanius_Dioscorides" title="Pedanius Dioscorides">Dioscorides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eusebius" title="Eusebius">Eusebius of Caesaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galen" title="Galen">Galen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herodian" title="Herodian">Herodian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_(emperor)" title="Julian (emperor)">Julian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libanius" title="Libanius">Libanius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucian" title="Lucian">Lucian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philostratus" title="Philostratus">Philostratus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phlegon_of_Tralles" title="Phlegon of Tralles">Phlegon of Tralles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Photios_I_of_Constantinople" title="Photios I of Constantinople">Photius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyaenus" title="Polyaenus">Polyaenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polybius" title="Polybius">Polybius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porphyry_(philosopher)" title="Porphyry (philosopher)">Porphyrius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priscus" title="Priscus">Priscus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Procopius" title="Procopius">Procopius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simplicius_of_Cilicia" title="Simplicius of Cilicia">Simplicius of Cilicia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sozomen" title="Sozomen">Sozomen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus Byzantinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themistius" title="Themistius">Themistius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodoret" title="Theodoret">Theodoret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joannes_Zonaras" title="Joannes Zonaras">Zonaras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zosimus_(historian)" title="Zosimus (historian)">Zosimus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Major cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antioch" title="Antioch">Antioch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aquileia" title="Aquileia">Aquileia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berytus" title="Berytus">Berytus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bologna" title="Bologna">Bononia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage">Carthage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinopolis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eboracum" title="Eboracum">Eboracum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leptis_Magna" title="Leptis Magna">Leptis Magna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Londinium" title="Londinium">Londinium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lugdunum" title="Lugdunum">Lugdunum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutetia" title="Lutetia">Lutetia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mediolanum" title="Mediolanum">Mediolanum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a></li> <li><a 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