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-93–-54 · 1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher

Also known as: Lukrez, Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius Carus, Lucrez, T. Lucretius Carus, Titus Carus Lucretius

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Source of the atomist, anti-superstition philosophy that the poem expounds, in direct prose letters and maxims. (AI reason)
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Virgil-69–-18
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Ovid-42–17
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Metamorphoses offers a sweeping Latin verse cosmogony and vision of ceaseless change in nature. (AI reason)
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Horace-64–-7
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Cicero-106–-42
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De natura deorum debates Epicurean, Stoic and Academic views on the gods and the cosmos. (AI reason)
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Hesiod
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Founding Greek didactic poetry on the origins of the world and human life. (AI reason)
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Empedocles
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Philosophical poem on nature and elements that served as a model for verse cosmology. (AI reason)
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Michel de Montaigne1533–1592
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Essays steeped in classical skepticism and frank reflection on death and nature. (AI reason)
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Marcus Manilius100–
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