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Lucretius - Wikipedia
Lucretius was an early thinker in what grew to become the study of evolution. He believed that nature experiments endlessly across the aeons, and the organisms that adapt best to their environment have the best chance of surviving.

Lucretius | Roman Epicurean Poet & Philosopher | Britannica
Lucretius was a Latin poet and philosopher known for his single, long poem, De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things). The poem is the fullest extant statement of the physical theory of the Greek philosopher Epicurus.

Lucretius - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Titus Lucretius Carus (died mid to late 50s BCE) was an Epicurean poet of the late Roman republican era. His six-book Latin hexameter poem De rerum natura (DRN for short), variously translated On the nature of things and On the nature of the universe, survives virtually intact, although it is disputed whether he lived to put the finishing touches to it.

Lucretius - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) was a Roman poet and the author of the philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), a comprehensive exposition of the Epicurean world-view. Very little is known of the poet’s life, though a sense of his character and personality emerges vividly from his poem.

Lucretius - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Lucretius’ early modern reception is now a flourishing scholarly enterprise and most recent collections of essays on Lucretius have a substantial section devoted to this aspect (for a start, see Gillespie and Hardie 2007 and Mitsis 2020).

De rerum natura - Wikipedia
Lucretius identifies the supernatural with the notion that the deities created our world or interfere with its operations in some way.

Lucretius: "On the Nature of Things" - Owlcation
Lucretius starts with natural phenomena: thunder and lightning, whirlwinds, water spouts, storm clouds, rain, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and flooding. He also discusses pestilences and plagues. These phenomena are not punishments from the gods, but natural occurrences.

The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius? - TheCollector
One of the most overlooked people is Titus Lucretius Carus, known simply as Lucretius, a philosopher and poet believed to have lived during the first century BCE. Because his life was largely undocumented, not much is remembered about him, but his contributions to the fields are still felt today.

The Philosophy and Life of Lucretius - Owlcation
Lucretius died over 2,000 years ago, but he is still influential in philosophy today, particularly as the main transmitter of Epicurean philosophy. Lucretius was an Epicurean poet known for his only surviving work, De Rerum Natura. His work is one of the most valuable surviving sources on Epicurean philosophy, particularly Epicurean physics.

Lucretius - New World Encyclopedia
Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 B.C.E. - 55 B.C.E.) was a Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher. During the first century B.C.E. he wrote De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of Latin verse which sets out in careful detail the Epicurean worldview.