biography
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Lucretius
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in full Titus Lucretius Carus
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pronunciation:
[lookreeshus]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.94–c.55BC)
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| biography:
| Roman poet and philosopher. His major work is the six-volume hexameter poem De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things), in which he tried to popularize the philosophical theories of Democritus and Epicurus on the origin of the universe, denouncing religious belief as the one great source of human wickedness and misery. Little is known about his life, but one story recounts that a love potion given to him by his wife Lucilia sent him insane, and that he committed suicide. |
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