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The Nature of Things
Lucretius’s The Nature of Things presents Epicurean philosophy in Latin verse, arguing that atoms, void and natural causes explain the world. The poem seeks to free readers from fear of death and divine punishment while turning physics, ethics and poetic grandeur into one late-republican work.
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