Lucretius

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Lucretius
On the Nature of the Universe

“On the Nature of the Universe” is a very long poem written by Lucretius in which he portrays the reality of man in a godless universe and in a way tries to make men be fearless of death. One of his principals is “that nothing ever by divine power comes from nothing,” because according to him in his philosophy as a custom they must define the matter therefore “all things are made of atoms”, he defends the idea that the world and everything contained in it is pure matter ruled by mechanistic laws which control the movements of the atoms. But if this matter fails, death is the way.
He also praises nature when in the beginning of the first book he talks about Venus and her powers which he says he tries