Verse translation of Lucretius's epic Latin poem explaining the universe, within the framework of Epicurean philosophy.

On the Nature of Things is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC).

Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and he died in the year 55.

If this is true, Lucretius must have been dead by 54 BC. In the work of another author in late Republican Rome, Virgil writes in the second book of his Georgics, apparently referring to Lucretius, "Happy is he who has discovered the causes ...