when Lucretius died (discussed below), then it may be concluded he was born in 99 or 98 BC. Less specific estimates place the birth of Lucretius in the...

Charaxes lucretius, the violet-washed charaxes or common red charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Ch. lucretius Cr. male. Wings above black...

that Lucretius goes on to argue that the gods are removed from human life, many have thus seen this opening to be contradictory: how can Lucretius pray...

classical Latin. In the Oxford Latin Dictionary, the phrase is attributed to Lucretius in his De rerum natura where he used the term as an epithet to describe...

somewhat uneven in places. To the northwest of Lucretius is a chain of craters called the Catena Lucretius. These extend for a distance of 271 km across...

Decimus Lucretius Valens, mentioned in a graffito from Pompeii. Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus, father of the consuls of 509 and 508 BC. Spurius Lucretius T....

to replace Brutus, and Lucretius was chosen as suffect consul in the same year, 509 BC. However, being of advanced age, Lucretius died a few days afterwards...

poet Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC), passionately assailed popular religion in his philosophical poem On the Nature of Things. In this poem, Lucretius declares...

Hostus Lucretius Tricipitinus was a consul of the Roman republic in 429 BC. Lucretius belonged to the ancient patrician Lucretia gens whose ancestors had...

death of Lucretius. Though writing after Walter Map, they did not mention Lucretius in connection with Lucilia. Rather, their accounts of Lucretius's death...