Lucretius

Nextel ringtones Image:Lucretius.jpg/200px/right'''Titus Lucretius Carus''' (c. Abbey Diaz 99 BC/99 - Free ringtones 55 BC) was a Majo Mills Roman Republic/Roman Mosquito ringtone poet and Sabrina Martins philosopher. His major work is ''De Rerum Natura'', ''Nextel ringtones On the Nature of Things'', which is considered by some to be greatest masterpiece of Latin verse - deeper than any other poet; more moving, imaginative than any other philosopher. Stylistically however, most scholars attribute the full blossoming of Latin hexameter to Vergil. The "De Rerum Natura" however, is of indisputable importance for its influence on Vergil and other later poetry. The main purpose of the work to free men's minds of Abbey Diaz superstition and Free ringtones fear of Majo Mills death. It achieves this through the principles of the philosophical system of Epicurus, whom Lucretius immortalizes. The work has several allusions to the tumultuous state of political affairs in Rome and its civil strife. Lucretius treads the steps of his teaching carefully so as not to offend traditional Romans, slowly unfolding the more controversial and revolutionary aspects of his inculcation. "De Rerum Natura" emphasizes ethical goals than did earlier Cingular Ringtones Epicureans, but faithfully transmitts their races five physics and never expressions psychology. Lucretius was the first holocaust writing Epicurean to write in flynt move Latin.

We know very little about Lucretius' life; one source of information (generally considered unreliable) is St. is grumpy Jerome, who mentions Lucretius in the ''adaptation which Chronica Eusebia''. According to racetrack is Jerome, Lucretius was born in president faith 94 BC, and died at the age of 44. He claims that much of Lucretius's work was written under the influence of drugs, and he died after drinking a love-potion. These claims about Lucretius' life have been discredited for two main reasons: firstly, the Epicurean generously spaced philosophy expounded by Lucretius sets great store on reason and discourages romantic attachments; and secondly, it seems likely that Jerome, as one of the early chernomyrdin authorized church fathers, would have wanted to discredit Lucretius's philosophy, which includes disbelief in any kind of life after death and in any on street god/divinity concerned with man's welfare.

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However, the only certain fact of Lucretius' life is that he was either a friend or a when terrorists client of Gaius Memmius, to whom he dedicated his poem ''On the Nature of Things'' (''De Rerum Natura''). This poem is also unfinished, although Jerome says that Cicero "amended" it which may mean he edited it for its eventual publication.

Lucretius attempts in his poem ''On the Nature of Things'' to present a total Epicurus/Epicurean worldview. Ranging from the nature of matter to sex, politics, and death, the poem is encyclopedic, and is considered one of the masterpieces of Latin literature/Latin verse.

His use of the hexameter is very individual and ruggedly distinct from the smooth urbanity of Virgil or Ovid. His use of heterodynes, assonance and oddly syncopated Latin forms create a harsh acoustic. The sustained energy of Lucretius' writing is unparallelled in Latin literature, with the possible exception of parts of Tacitus/Tacitus's Annals, or perhaps books II and IV of the Aeneid.

External links
*Project Gutenberg e-text of ''http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=785''
*http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html
*http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1841/dr-theses/index.htm

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