Drawing on the atomism theory of Democritus, dating over 400 years prior to his masterwork, Lucretius main aim with his poem is to explain the various theories… It begins with a prooemium in which is described the terrifying impact which the fear of death has on human lives, as well as the fact that Epicurus has provided a cure against this fear, namely his physical doctrines (1–93). De rerum natura. The idea of atoms, the infinite universe and the plurality of worlds, and that mechanical cause and effect lies behind every natural phenomenon -- all this was expressed here. [1], Machiavelli made a copy early in his life. [19] For instance, the poem concludes rather abruptly while detailing the Plague of Athens, there are redundant passages throughout (e.g., 1.820–821 and 2.1015–1016) alongside other aesthetic “loose ends”, and at 5.155 Lucretius mentions that he will spend a great deal of time discussing the nature of the gods, which never comes to pass. Quae quoniam rerum naturam sola gubernas nec sine te quicquam dias in luminis oras exoritur neque fit laetum neque amabile quicquam, te sociam studeo scribendis versibus esse, quos ego de rerum natura pangere conor Memmiadae nostro, quem tu, dea, tempore in omni omnibus ornatum voluisti excellere rebus. On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) by Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 - c. 55 BCE) This abridged presentation of Lucretius' famous six-book poem on nature focuses mostly on those passages essential to Epicureanism based on translations by Sisson and Rouse. )[92], Montaigne owned a Latin edition published in Paris, in 1563, by Denis Lambin which he heavily annotated. "[89], After Lactantius's time, Lucretius was almost exclusively referenced or alluded to in a negative manner by the Church Fathers. De rerum natura(English: On the Nature of Things) is the only known work of Lucretius. Ball of 100 g * = approx . [66] This has led scholars like Katharina Volk to argue that "Manilius is a veritable anti-Lucretius". [90][91] (About a century later, the British historian and Doctor of the Church Bede produced a work also called De natura rerum, partly based on Isidore's work but apparently ignorant of Lucretius's poem. podcast_de-rerum-natura-by-carus-titu_668403113 Language Latin Mediatype collection Public-format Metadata Animated GIF Thumbnail Item Tile Publicdate 2018-02-02 19:06:37 Subject podcasts De Rerum Natura by CARUS, Titus Lucretius Title De Rerum Natura by CARUS, Titus Lucretius The title translates the Peri Physeos of Epicurus, whom Lucretius acknowledges as his master and praises in the most lavish terms. St. Jerome, writing more than four hundred years after Lucretius’ death, makes the sensational statement that the … [5] To further alleviate the fear of non-existence, Lucretius makes use of the symmetry argument: he argues that the eternal oblivion awaiting all humans after death is exactly the same as the infinite nothingness that preceded our birth. Lucretius:De rerum natura, pp.6-7.Titus Lucretius Carrus (Latin Titus Lucretius Carus) was born around 98-94 BC and died around 55-53 BC Was a Roman poet and the his known work is the extensive philosophical poem De Rerum Natura, ("On the nature of things"), with 7,415 verses epicurean theme. De Rerum Natura, the great didactic poem by philosopher and poet Lucretius, is presented here complete in the author's original Latin. From Epicurus Wiki. In that case, nature would never have produced anything. De rerum natura (English: On the Nature of Things) is the only known work of Lucretius. Volume 144, December 2016, Issue 4, pp 439-461 Original language: English Aufsatz About this journal For instance, Diskin Clay sees Venus as a poetic substitute for sex, and Bonnie Catto sees the invocation of the name as a metonym for the "creative process of natura". According to Lucretius's frequent statements in his poem, the main purpose of the work was to free Gaius Memmius's mind of the supernatural and the fear of death—and to induct him into a state of ataraxia by expounding the philosophical system of Epicurus, whom Lucretius glorifies as the hero of his epic poem. [55][56], While there exist a handful of references to Lucretius in Romance and Germanic sources dating between the ninth and fifteenth centuries (references that, according to Ada Palmer, "indicate a tenacious, if spotty knowledge of the poet and some knowledge of [his] poem"), no manuscripts of De rerum natura currently survive from this span of time. The idea gods waft around Mount Olympus but don’t create universes or concern themselves with our lives. 15 – 20. [1][38] According to Lucretius, this unpredictable swerve occurs at no fixed place or time: When atoms move straight down through the void by their own weight, they deflect a bit in space at a quite uncertain time and in uncertain places, just enough that you could say that their motion has changed. In both this work, and as well as his more well-known Etymologiae (c. AD 600–625), Isidore liberally quotes from Lucretius a total of twelve times, drawing verses from all of Lucretius's books except his third. Abstract. Lucretius was re-discovered at an opportune moment. TITVS LVCRETIVS CARVS (c. 94 – c. 49 B.C.) Lat. Molière produced a verse translation which does not survive; John Evelyn translated the first book. Lucretius wrote this epic poem to "Memmius", who may be Gaius Memmius, who in 58 BC was a praetor, a judicial official deciding controversies between citizens and the government. Here Plato, an Athenian like Epicurus (De Rerum Natura 6. Next, the poet sets forth the atomic theory of Epicurus (derived from Democritus). (Lucretius; De Rerum Natura; I, 62-71) Epicurus was no atheist, but he reacted against the anthropomorphic representation of the gods in popular belief and mythological stories, where gods behave like human beings, also with their negative characteristics, and influence directly human lives. The poem consists of six untitled books, in dactylic hexameter. Über das Leben des Lukrez ist so gut wie nichts bekannt. He was unable to tell his readers how to determine which of these alternatives might be the true one. 270 y. Nevertheless, Lucretius writes as a complete Epicurean,offering his reader not just cosmological understanding but the fullrecipe for happiness. [94], Notable figures who owned copies include Ben Jonson whose copy is held at the Houghton Library, Harvard; and Thomas Jefferson, who owned at least five Latin editions and English, Italian and French translations. )[69], Additionally, Lucretius's work is discussed by the Augustan poet Ovid, who in his Amores writes "the verses of the sublime Lucretius will perish only when a day will bring the end of the world" (Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucreti / exitio terras cum dabit una dies),[70] and the Silver Age poet Statius, who in his Silvae praises Lucretius as being highly "learned". Against Bailey's use of v. 418 as supporting his theory it should be said that, as his own translation shows, repetere cannot here mean 'recapitulate'. 10 De Rerum Natura 3.820–1; Epicurus, , Kuriai Doxai 2; Cicero, De Finibus 2.100. The six-book epic poem is addressed to Memmius, Lucretius' patron, and devoted to illustrating the world-view of Epicurus. [68] (Coincidentally, De rerum natura and the Astronomica were both rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in the early 15th century. De Rerum Natura by CARUS, Titus Lucretius. ». [1] Namely, Lucretius explores the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. Iff. To the Greek philosopher Epicurus, the unhappiness and degradation of humans arose largely from the dread which they entertained of the power of the deities, from terror of their wrath. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna ("chance"),[2] and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities. (De Rerum Natura) Summary by Michael McGoodwin, prepared 1997. [27] The historian Ada Palmer has labelled six ideas in Lucretius's thought (viz. his assertion that the world was created from chaos, and his denials of Providence, divine participation, miracles, the efficacy of prayer, and an afterlife) as "proto-atheistic". But to lay down which of them it is lies beyond the range of our stumbling progress. Lucretius's task was to clearly state and fully develop these views in an attractive form; his work was an attempt to show through poetry that everything in nature can be explained by natural laws, without the need for the intervention of divine beings. De rerum natura was what may be described as a bible for the scientific revolution. The one major exception to this was Isidore of Seville, who at the start of the 7th century produced a work on astronomy and natural history dedicated to the Visigothic king Sisebut that was entitled De natura rerum. Date 2005-05. De rerum natura deals with atomism, nature, the universe, the body and the soul. Epicurus was a very serious person and his work, now lost, may have been hard going. September 27, 2015 September 27, 2015 ~ sententiaeantiquae “I follow you who first could raise so clear a light to illuminate in so great a darkness the best parts of life, the glory of the Greek people; and I place my feet De Rerum Natura was a poem written in the 1st century BC outlining the tenets of Epicureanism, a philosophical school founded by Epicurus (c. 341-c. 271 BC) 2. "[35], Despite his advocacy of empiricism 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) round earth theory, favor instead a flat earth cosmology. "[37] His naturalistic explanations were meant to bolster the ethical and philosophical ideas of Epicureanism, not to reveal true explanations of the physical world.[36]. On the difficulties of tracing commonplaces to particular sources see Wallach, B. P., Lucretius and the Diatribe against the Fear of Death (Leiden, 1976), pp. [5], The oldest purported fragments of De rerum natura were published by K. Kleve in 1989 and consist of sixteen fragments. [23] Regardless, due to the ideas espoused in the poem, much of Lucretius's work was seen by many as direct a challenge to theistic, Christian belief. W. E. Leonard and Smith Lucretius (University of Wisconsin Press 1942); Richard Minadeo, The Lyre of Science: Form and Meaning in Lucretius' de rerum natura (Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1969). [42] If this were the case, then it might explain how Cicero came to be familiar with Lucretius's work. Apart from Lucretius’s poem almost nothing is known about him. Die spärlichen Angaben stammen großteils aus späten Quellen und sind widersprüchlich und zum Teil wenig glaubwürdig. The title of Lucretius’s work translates that of the chief work of Epicurus, Peri physeōs (On Nature). 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