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The 11 pages that link to Lucretius, each with the reason it gives.

• CiceroCompared with: His poem offers a contemporary Latin defense of Epicurean philosophy against which Cicero’s criticisms can be read.

• EpicureanismRelated: His poem preserves the school’s account of atoms, perception, and mortality.

• AnthropomorphismRelated: His account of religion describes people imagining gods in human form.

• AtomismRelated: His poem preserved a detailed account of ancient atomist ideas.

• EpicurusRelated: His poem became the most influential surviving exposition of Epicurean thought.

• Giordano BrunoRelated: Lucretius transmitted ancient arguments for innumerable worlds that Bruno could draw upon.

• DemocritusRelated: His poem preserved and transmitted an atomist worldview rooted in Democritean thought.

• ChanceRelated: His account of atoms swerving helped preserve the Epicurean idea of chance.

• History of atomic theoryRelated: His surviving poem transmitted ancient atomism to later European thinkers.

• Karl LachmannBroader topic: Lachmann produced a major edition of Lucretius, applying textual and linguistic scholarship.

• School of AbderaRelated: His poem preserved and popularized a later tradition descended from Abderite atomism.