On the Nature of Things | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-13

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rerum_natura


00:01:05 1 Background
00:03:18 2 Contents
00:03:28 2.1 Synopsis
00:08:41 2.2 Purpose
00:12:13 2.3 Completeness
00:12:52 3 Main ideas
00:13:02 3.1 Metaphysics
00:13:11 3.1.1 Lack of divine intervention
00:14:57 3.1.2 Repudiation of immortality
00:17:11 3.2 Physics
00:20:17 3.2.1 The swerve
00:21:42 4 Textual history
00:21:52 4.1 Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages
00:25:23 4.2 Rediscovery to the present
00:27:51 5 Reception
00:28:00 5.1 Classical antiquity
00:31:57 5.2 Late antiquity and the Middle Ages
00:34:05 5.3 Renaissance to the present
00:35:54 6 Notes
00:36:03 7 Work cited
00:36:13 8 Further reading
00:36:22 8.1 Translations
00:39:24 9 External links



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- Socrates


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De rerum natura (Latin: [deːˈreːrũn.naːˈtuːraː]; On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through poetic language and metaphors. Namely, Lucretius explores the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna ("chance"), and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.