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PHILOSOPHER

Lucretius

94 BC - 55 BC

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Titus Lucretius Carus ( TY-təs loo-KREE-shəs, Latin: [ˈtitus luˈkreːti.us ˈkaːrus]; c. 99 – c. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. Very little is known about Lucretius's life; the only certainty is that he was either a friend or client of Gaius Memmius, to whom the poem was addressed and dedicated. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucretius has received more than 1,267,121 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Lucretius is the 55th most popular philosopher, the 59th most popular biography from Italy (up from 83rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Lucretius is most famous for his poem "De Rerum Natura" which is a long didactic poem about the nature of the universe and the development of life.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Lucretius ranks 55 out of 1,081. Before him are John Amos Comenius, Zeno of Elea, Empedocles, Karl Popper, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt. After him are Plotinus, Henri Bergson, Anaxagoras, Herbert Spencer, Mikhail Bakunin, and Edmund Husserl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 94 BC, Lucretius ranks 1. After him are Emperor Zhao of Han, Clodia Pulchra, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, and Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus. Among people deceased in 55 BC, Lucretius ranks 1. After him are Tigranes the Great, Berenice IV of Egypt, and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lucretius ranks 59 out of 4,668. Before him are Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Sophia Loren (1934), Empedocles (-490), Federico Fellini (1920), and Fibonacci (1170). After him are Pope Clement VII (1478), Umberto Eco (1932), Guglielmo Marconi (1874), Vespasian (9), Antonio Stradivari (1644), and Benedict of Nursia (480).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Lucretius ranks 7. Before him are Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Thomas Aquinas (1225), Parmenides (-501), Maria Montessori (1870), Zeno of Elea (-490), and Empedocles (-490). After him are Pliny the Elder (23), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), Tommaso Campanella (1568), and Marsilio Ficino (1433).

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