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Titus Lucretius Carus, c. 99 BC - c. 55 BC. Roman philosopher and poet who expounded his Epicurean atomist cosmology in the didactic poem De Rerum Natura.

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• Engines of Our Ingenuity: Lucretius

  http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi334.htm
  Short broadcast about this philosopher by John H. Lienhard. Audio file available.

• Great Books: Lucretius

  http://www.malaspina.org/lucretius.htm
  Essay about Lucretius' life, works and philosophical ideas.

• Latin Authors: Lucretius

  http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/LatinAuthors/Lucretius.html
  Article by William Harris, discussing Lucretius' poem and broader issues in the study of ancient science.

• Lucretius

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/lucretiu/
  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article by David Simpson. Extensive discussion of the life, doctrine, and context of this Roman Epicurean thinker.

• Lucretius' "Globed From The Atoms".

  http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Poetry/Globed.htm
  Another poem by Lucretius.

• On the Nature of Things

  http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.1.i.html
  Written 50 B.C.E by Lucretius. Verse translation by William Ellery Leonard.

• Project Gutenberg Presents: Of the Nature of Things

  http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=785
  Download Lucretius' Epicurean text as e-book as text- or .zip file.

• What Lucretius Wrought

  http://humanists.net/pdhutcheon/humanist%20articles/lucritus.htm
  Essay about the works and philosophy of the Roman Thinker.

• Wikipedia: Lucretius

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretius
  Encyclopedical entry of Lucretius' life and work.

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