TY - BOOK ID - 30900874 TI - De rerum natura AU - Lucretius Carus, Titus AU - Rouse, W. H. D. AU - Smith, Martin Ferguson PY - 1982 VL - 181 SN - 0674992008 9780674992009 0434991813 9780434991815 PB - Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press, DB - UniCat KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures KW - Latin didactic poetry KW - Didactic poetry, Latin KW - Philosophy, Ancient. KW - Translations into English. KW - Latin poetry KW - Natural history KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Poetry KW - Science KW - Natural science KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Poems KW - Verses (Poetry) KW - Ancient philosophy KW - Greek philosophy KW - Philosophy, Greek KW - Philosophy, Roman KW - Roman philosophy KW - History, Natural KW - Physiophilosophy KW - Philosophy KW - Literature KW - Biology KW - Latin literature KW - Translations into English KW - Natural history. KW - Natural sciences KW - Didactic poetry, Latin - Translations into English UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30900874 AB - Lucretius lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BCE, but the details of his career are unknown. In his didactic poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) he expounds Epicurean philosophy so as to dispel fear of the gods and death, and promote spiritual tranquility. ER -