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About Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BC – ca. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem on Epicureanism De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things or "On the Nature of the Universe".
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00 - Preface and Remarks on the life and poem of Lucretius
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01 - Book I, pt 1 - Invocation and Dedication of the poem. Praise of Epicurus. The theory of the atom.
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04 - Book 2, pt 1 - Praise of philosophy. Properties of the atoms: weight, combination, swiftness.
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03 - Book 1, pt 3 - Attack on the theory of Anaxagoras. The universe is boundless, limitless and has no center. Praise of philosophy.
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02 - Book I, pt 2 - Time doesn't have a real existence. Atoms are solid and indivisible. Attack on the theory of Empedocles.
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07 - Book 3, pt 1 - Eulogy of Epicurus. Denial of divine power over the world. The fear of gods and the fear of death torment men and lead them into crimes. Difference between mind and soul. Both mind and soul are corporeal,i.e., composed of atoms like th
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18 - Book 6, pt. 3 - About the temperature of waters. About magnets and why metals are attracted to them. About the origin and cause of diseases. Description of the plague that depopulated Athens during the Peloponnesian war.
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05 - Book 2, pt 2 - Attack on those who refuse the theories of Epicurus. Properties of the atoms: atoms are constantly in motion, and tend to move downwards. Figure, flavor, surface of atoms. The different kinds of atoms are many, but not infinite.
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06 - Book 2, pt 3 - Compound bodies contain atoms of different figures. The infinite number of atoms moving through infinite space creates an infinite number of bodies.
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12 - Book 4, pt 3 - Motion in animals and motion in images. Sleep and causes of dreams. Love and desire and their influence.
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09 - Book 3, pt 3 - Death is the end of man, and nothing should be feared after it. All suffering happens only during life. All men die, good or bad, and death should be contemplated with calmness and reason.
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10 - Book 4, pt 1 - Theory of image. Vision is produced by the impact of images on the eye. Senses may be trusted; false opinions arise from false reasoning about the testimony of senses.
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08 - Book 3, pt 2 - The substance of the mind and the soul. The soul and the body can't be separated without destruction of both. Twenty arguments which prove that the soul perishes with the body, contrary to the Pythagorean theory.
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11 - Book 4, pt 2 - Other senses: sound, taste and odor. Imagination and thought are produced by means of images. The nature of dreams. The use of the organs of the body.
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15 - Book 5, pt 3 - The rudeness of the early life of men. The invention of speech.The discovery of fire, the progress of society. The rise of religion from ignorance of natural causes. The discovery of metals and the progress of the arts.
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16 - Book 6, pt 1 - Panegyric on Athens. Meteoric appearances in the heaven. Causes of shooting stars, lightning, thunderbolts. Ridicule of those who attribute the origin of the storms to gods.
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17 - Book 6, pt. 2 - Origin of water-spouts, clouds, rain, rainbow, earthquakes and other phenomena. About the seas and volcanoes. About rivers and lakes.
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14 - Book 5, pt 2 - Cosmogony according to Epicurus. Causes of the motions of heaven. The magnitude of heavenly bodies and causes of their phenomena: day and night, phases and eclipses of the moon and the sun. The production of plants, animals and man. Th
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07 - Book 3, pt 1 - Eulogy of Epicurus. Denial of divine power over the world. The fear of gods and the fear of death torment men and lead them into crimes. Difference between mind and soul. Both mind and soul are corporeal,i.e., composed of atoms like the body.
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01 - Liber primus, pars prima
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02 - Book I, pt 2 - Time doesn’t have a real existence. Atoms are solid and ind…
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03 - Book 1, pt 3 - Attack on the theory of Anaxagoras. The universe is boundle…
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01 - Book I, pt 1 - Invocation and Dedication of the poem. Praise of Epicurus. …
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04 - Book 2, pt 1 - Praise of philosophy. Properties of the atoms: weight, comb…
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05 - Book 2, pt 2 - Attack on those who refuse the theories of Epicurus. Proper…
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Liber Tertius (Pars Tertia)
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Liber Primus (Pars Prima)
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Liber Primus (Pars Tertia)
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Liber Primus (Pars Secunda)
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Liber Secundus (Pars Prima)
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Liber Secundus (Pars Secunda)
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Liber Secundus (Pars Tertia)
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Liber Tertius (Pars Prima)
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Liber Tertius (Pars Secunda)
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Liber Quartus (Pars Prima)
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Liber Quartus (Pars Secunda)
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Liber Quartus (Pars Tertia)
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Liber Quintus (Pars Prima)
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Liber Quintus (Pars Secunda)
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Liber Quintus (Pars Tertia)
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Liber Sextus (Pars Prima)
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Liber Sextus (Pars Secunda)
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Liber Sextus (Pars Tertia)
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Book I, Part 1: Proem
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Book I, Part 2: Substance is Eternal
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Book I, Part 3: The Void
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Book I, Part 4: Nothing Exists per se except Atoms and the Void
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Book I, Part 5: Character of the Atoms
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Book I, Part 6: Confutation of other Philosophers
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Book I, Part 7: The Infinity of the Universe
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