In the canon
De Rerum Natura
- Form
- Form Epic Poem
- Year
- Year 55 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 300
Atoms fall through an infinite void, swerve infinitesimally, and from that swerve come the seas, the cities, the gods, and the reader holding the poem. Lucretius composed this Latin epic in the first century before the common era, casting the materialist physics of Epicurus into hexameters of such sustained beauty that the doctrine survived its own near-extinction through them.
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