Titus Lucretius Carus, commonly referred to as Lucretius, was a Roman philosopher who lived from approximately 99 BC to 50 BC. His only surviving work, De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things), is a philosophical poem in six books, heavily influenced by Epicurean natural philosophy. The poem describes ways that humans interact with the environment, and explains a variety of natural phenomena.
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- Glacken, Clarence J. Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
- Lucretius. On the Nature of Things. Translated by William Ellery Leonard. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1916. E-book
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