Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus (99/94-55/51 BCE)

Ancient Latin poet and expounder of the philosophy of Epicurus.  In De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), he dealt with Epicurean atomic theory, the mortality of the soul, sensation and thought, the origins and development of the world, and various natural phenomena.

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