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Almost nothing is known about his life. No letters, no anecdotes, no reliable biography. He exists for us entirely through his poem.
Almost nothing is known about Lucretius the man. What survives is a single long poem, De Rerum Natura, which sets out the entire Epicurean physics in Latin hexameters. It argues that the world is made of atoms moving through void, that the soul is mortal, that the gods do not intervene in human affairs, and that fear (of death, of the gods, of the unknown) is the root of all human misery. The poem was lost for a thousand years, rediscovered in a German monastery in 1417, and helped spark the Renaissance.
Almost nothing is known about his life. No letters, no anecdotes, no reliable biography. He exists for us entirely through his poem.