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De rerum natura

Index De rerum natura

De rerum natura (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) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. [1]

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A Death in the Desert

"A Death in the Desert" is a short story by Willa Cather.

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A. E. Stallings

Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born July 2, 1968) is an American poet and translator.

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Absinthe

Absinthe is historically described as a distilled, highly alcoholic (45–74% ABV / 90–148 U.S. proof) beverage.

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Ada Palmer

Ada Palmer is an American historian and writer and winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

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Alessandro Marchetti (mathematician)

Alessandro Marchetti (17 March 1633 – 6 September 1714) was an Italian mathematician, noted for criticizing some conclusions of Guido Grandi, a student of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli who was influenced by Galileo and Aristotle.

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Alma mater

Alma mater (Latin: "nourishing/kind", "mother"; pl.) is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college.

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Ancient literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during ancient times.

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Antanaclasis

In rhetoric, antanaclasis (from the ἀντανάκλασις, antanáklasis, meaning "reflection", from ἀντί anti, "against", ἀνά ana, "up" and κλάσις klásis "breaking") is the literary trope in which a single word or phrase is repeated, but in two different senses.

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Anthony Esolen

Anthony M. Esolen is a writer, social commentator, translator of classical poetry, and professor of English Renaissance and classical literature at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts.

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Astronomica (Manilius)

The Astronomica (or as.trɔˈnɔ.mɪ.ka), also known as the Astronomicon, is a Latin didactic poem written in hexameters and divided into five books about celestial phenomena.

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Atomism

Atomism (from Greek ἄτομον, atomon, i.e. "uncuttable", "indivisible") is a natural philosophy that developed in several ancient traditions.

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Bridlington School

Bridlington School is a secondary school and sixth form located on Bessingby Road (A165), next to the hospital, in the seaside holiday resort of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Brownian motion

Brownian motion or pedesis (from πήδησις "leaping") is the random motion of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their collision with the fast-moving molecules in the fluid.

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C. H. Sisson

Charles Hubert Sisson, CH (22 April 1914 – 5 September 2003), usually cited as C. H. Sisson, was a British writer, best known as a poet and translator.

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Centaur

A centaur (Κένταυρος, Kéntauros), or occasionally hippocentaur, is a mythological creature with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds.

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Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus

Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus is the twenty-first studio album, and thirty-second overall, by Chicago.

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Clinamen

Clinamen (plural clinamina, derived from clīnāre, to incline) is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in order to defend the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus.

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Collection Budé

The Collection Budé, or the Collection des Universités de France, is a series of books comprising the Greek and Latin classics up to the middle of the 6th century (before Emperor Justinian).

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Criticism of religion

Criticism of religion is criticism of the ideas, the truth, or the practice of religion, including its political and social implications.

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Culture of ancient Rome

The culture of ancient Rome existed throughout almost 1200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome.

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De Natura Sonoris

De natura sonoris (On the nature of sound) is the title of three works by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.

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Democritus

Democritus (Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people") was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe.

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Didacticism

Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art.

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DRN

DRN may refer to.

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Epicureanism

Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, founded around 307 BC.

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Epicurus

Epicurus (Ἐπίκουρος, Epíkouros, "ally, comrade"; 341–270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded a school of philosophy now called Epicureanism.

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Essays (Montaigne)

The Essays (Essais) of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length.

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Eternal oblivion

In philosophy, eternal oblivion (also referred to as non-existence or nothingness) is the permanent cessation of one's consciousness upon death.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Gaius Memmius (poet)

Gaius Memmius (died circa 49 BC, incorrectly called Gemellus, "The Twin") was a Roman orator and poet.

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Georgics

The Georgics is a poem by Latin poet Virgil, likely published in 29 BC.

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Giants (Greek mythology)

In Greek and Roman Mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes (jye-GAHN-tees or gee-GAHN-tees; Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes, Γίγας, Gígas) were a race of great strength and aggression, though not necessarily of great size, known for the Gigantomachy (Gigantomachia), their battle with the Olympian gods.

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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher.

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Glossary of ancient Roman religion

The vocabulary of ancient Roman religion was highly specialized.

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Great books

The great books are books that are thought to constitute an essential foundation in the literature of Western culture.

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Great Books of the Western World

Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the Great Books in a 54-volume set.

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Hapax legomenon

In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon (also or; pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax) is a word that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text.

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Hecate

Hecate or Hekate (Ἑκάτη, Hekátē) is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches or a keyThe Running Maiden from Eleusis and the Early Classical Image of Hekate by Charles M. Edwards in the American Journal of Archaeology, Vol.

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Hedonism

Hedonism is a school of thought that argues that the pursuit of pleasure and intrinsic goods are the primary or most important goals of human life.

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Helle Busacca

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Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French-Jewish philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until World War II.

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Henrik Lacaj

Henrik Lacaj (1909-1991) was an Albanian humanitarian, linguist, and translator.

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Hippocampus (mythology)

The hippocampus or hippocamp, also hippokampoi (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, "horse" and κάμπος, "sea monster" at reference.com; compare the nameless monster Campe.), often called a sea-horse in English, is a mythological creature shared by PhoenicianIsrael Antiquities Authority, (retrieved Jan 10 2013), Etruscan, and Greek mythology, though its name has a Greek origin.

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History of animation

The history of animation started long before the development of cinematography.

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History of atheism

Atheism (derived from the Ancient Greek ἄθεος atheos meaning "without gods; godless; secular; denying or disdaining the gods, especially officially sanctioned gods") is the absence or rejection of the belief that deities exist.

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History of chemistry

The history of chemistry represents a time span from ancient history to the present.

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History of evolutionary thought

Evolutionary thought, the conception that species change over time, has roots in antiquity – in the ideas of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese as well as in medieval Islamic science.

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History of scientific method

The history of scientific method considers changes in the methodology of scientific inquiry, as distinct from the history of science itself.

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History of theology

This is an overview of the history of theology in Greek thought and its relationship with Abrahamic religions.

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How to Read a Book

How to Read a Book is a 1940 book by Mortimer Adler.

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Hugh of Fouilloy

Hugh of Fouilloy, born between 1096 and 1111 in Fouilloy (near Amiens) and died ca.

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Hylonome

Hylonome (from) was a female centaur in Greek mythology.

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Iacchus

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Iacchus (also Iacchos, Iakchos) (Ἴακχος) was a minor deity, of some cultic importance, particularly at Athens and Eleusis in connection with the Eleusinian mysteries, but without any significant mythology.

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Imperial cult of ancient Rome

The Imperial cult of ancient Rome identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the Roman State.

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Incompatibilism

Incompatibilism is the view that a deterministic universe is completely at odds with the notion that persons have a free will; that there is a dichotomy between determinism and free will where philosophers must choose one or the other.

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Index of ancient philosophy articles

This page is a list of topics in ancient philosophy.

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Index of philosophical literature

This is a list of philosophical literature articles.

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Index of philosophy articles (D–H)

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Iopas

In Virgil's Aeneid, Iopas is a bard at the court of Dido.

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Iphianassa

In Greek mythology, Iphianassa (Ίφιάνασσα Īphianassa "strong queen") is a name that refers to several characters.

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Jane Bennett (political theorist)

Jane Bennett (born July 31, 1957) is an American political theorist and philosopher.

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Jay Williams (guitarist/composer)

Jay Williams is a British musician who co-founded Broken Family Band with Steven James Adams Micky Roman and Gavin Johnson - Jay was also the guitarist in Cambridge based indie rock band Hofman.

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Jean D'Espagnet

Jean d'Espagnet (1564 – c. 1637) was a French Renaissance polymath.

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Johannes Nicolaus Furichius

Johannes Nicolaus Furichius (1602–1633) was a Franco-German neo-latin Imperial poet laureate, pharmacist, doctor of medicine and alchemist from Strasbourg.

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Karl Ludwig von Knebel

Karl Ludwig von Knebel (30 November 1744 – 23 February 1834) was a German poet and translator.

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Les Belles Lettres

Les Belles Lettres is a French publisher specialising in the publication of ancient texts such as the Collection Budé.

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List of artworks known in English by a foreign title

The following is an alphabetical list of works of art that are often called by a non-English name in an English context.

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List of atheist philosophers

There have been many philosophers in recorded history who were atheists.

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List of encyclopedias by date

This is a list of encyclopedias, arranged by time period.

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List of English translations of De rerum natura

De rerum natura (usually translated as On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical epic poem written by Lucretius in Latin around 55 BCE.

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List of epic poems

This is a list of epic poems.

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List of Epicurean philosophers

This is a list of Epicurean philosophers, ordered (roughly) by date.

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List of important publications in philosophy

This is a list of important publications in philosophy, organized by field.

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List of Italians

This is a list of Italians, who are identified with the Italian nation through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability.

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List of Latin phrases (C)

Additional references.

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List of Latin phrases (I)

Additional sources.

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List of Latin phrases (N)

Additional references.

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List of Latin phrases (V)

Additional references.

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List of Penguin Classics

This is a list of books published as Penguin Classics.

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List of The Nature of Things episodes

The Nature of Things (also, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki) is a Canadian television series of documentary programs.

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List of translators into English

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Loeb Classical Library

The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb) is a series of books, today published by Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each left-hand page, and a fairly literal translation on the facing page.

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Lost work

A lost work is a document, literary work, or piece of multimedia produced some time in the past of which no surviving copies are known to exist.

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Lucretia (gens)

The gens Lucretia was a prominent family of the Roman Republic.

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Lucretius

Titus Lucretius Carus (15 October 99 BC – c. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher.

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Lucy Hutchinson

Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681) was an English translator, poet, and biographer, and the first person to translate the complete text of Lucretius's De rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things") from Latin into English, during the years of the interregnum (1649–1660).

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Mario Rapisardi

Mario Rapisardi (25 February 1844, Catania – 4 January 1912, Catania) was an Italian poet, supporter of Risorgimento and member of the Scapigliatura (definition but refused).

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Martin Ferguson Smith

Martin Ferguson Smith, (born April 26, 1940) is a British scholar and writer born in Birmingham, England.

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Materialism

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental aspects and consciousness, are results of material interactions.

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Matt Ridley

Sir Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley (born 7 February 1958), commonly known as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist and businessman.

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Melchior de Polignac

Melchior Cardinal de Polignac (October 11, 1661 – November 20, 1742) was a French diplomat, Cardinal and neo-Latin poet.

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Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík

Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík (often abbreviated MR; official name in English: Reykjavik Junior College) is the oldest junior college (Icelandic: Menntaskóli) in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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Michel de Marolles

Michel de Marolles (22 July 1600, Genillé - 6 March 1681, Paris), known as the abbé de Marolles, was a French churchman and translator, known for his collection of old master prints.

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Mother Nature

Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth or the Earth-Mother) is a common personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it, in the form of the mother.

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Murbach Abbey

Murbach Abbey (Abbaye de Murbach) was a famous Benedictine monastery in Murbach, southern Alsace, in a valley at the foot of the Grand Ballon in the Vosges.

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Mussenden Temple

Mussenden Temple is a small circular building located on cliffs near Castlerock in County Londonderry, high above the Atlantic Ocean on the north-western coast of Northern Ireland.

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Natural selection

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.

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Nenia Dea

Nenia Dea (Engl.: Goddess Nenia; rarely Naenia) was an ancient funeral deity of Rome, who had a sanctuary outside of the Porta Viminalis.

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Nicolae Bagdasar

Nicolae Bagdasar (February 5, 1896–April 21, 1971) was a Romanian philosopher.

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Nicolas La Grange

Nicolas La Grange (1707–1775) was a French playwright and translator, notable for his 1768 translation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and for several plays.

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Not by Its Cover

"Not by Its Cover" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, a sequel to his first published science fiction short story, "Beyond Lies the Wub".

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Nothing comes from nothing

Nothing comes from nothing (ex nihilo nihil fit) is a philosophical expression of a thesis first argued by Parmenides.

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On Nature

On Nature (Περὶ Φύσεως, Peri Physeos) is the name of several works of ancient philosophy, especially by the Pre-Socratics.

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Owthorpe

Owthorpe is a small village and civil parish in the Wolds of the English county of Nottinghamshire.

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Penguin Great Ideas

Penguin Great Ideas is a series of largely non-fiction books published by Penguin Books.

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Penguin Group (USA) Inc. v. American Buddha

Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

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Personality

Personality is defined as the set of habitual behaviors, cognitions and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors.

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Pervigilium Veneris

Pervigilium Veneris (or The Vigil of Venus) is a Latin poem of uncertain date, variously assigned to the 2nd, 4th or 5th centuries.

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Philosophy and literature

Philosophy and literature involves the literary treatment of philosophers and philosophical themes (the literature of philosophy), and the philosophical treatment of issues raised by literature (the philosophy of literature).

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Pink

Pink is a pale red color that is named after a flower of the same name.

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Poggio Bracciolini

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (11 February 1380 – 30 October 1459), best known simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early humanist.

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Primavera (painting)

Primavera (meaning "Spring"), is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli made in the late 1470s or early 1480s (datings vary).

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Religious skepticism

Religious skepticism is a type of skepticism relating to religion.

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Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism is the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

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Richard Blackmore

Sir Richard Blackmore (22 January 1654 – 9 October 1729), English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and dull poet, but he was also a respected medical doctor and theologian.

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Roman philosophy

Roman philosophy was the philosophical thought in ancient Rome, from the Republic of Rome to the Roman Empire.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Roseus

Roseus is a Latin adjective meaning rose, rosy or pink.

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Satires (Horace)

The Satires (Satirae or Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written by the Roman poet, Horace.

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Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude ('harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.

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Scipio Africanus

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (236–183 BC), also known as Scipio the African, Scipio Africanus-Major, Scipio Africanus the Elder and Scipio the Great, was a Roman general and later consul who is often regarded as one of the greatest generals and military strategists of all time.

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Seal of New Mexico

The Great Seal of the State of New Mexico is the official seal of the U.S. State of New Mexico and was adopted in 1913.

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Sexuality in ancient Rome

Sexuality in ancient Rome, and more broadly, sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome, are indicated by Roman art, literature and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such as erotic artifacts and architecture.

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Sisyphus

In Greek mythology Sisyphus or Sisyphos (Σίσυφος) was the king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth).

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Solipsism

Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist.

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St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)

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Sully Prudhomme

René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme (16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist.

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Superstition

Superstition is a pejorative term for any belief or practice that is considered irrational: for example, if it arises from ignorance, a misunderstanding of science or causality, a positive belief in fate or magic, or fear of that which is unknown.

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Sydney Church of England Grammar School

Sydney Church of England Grammar School (also known as the Shore School, SCEGS or simply Shore) is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Tasters (band)

Tasters (formerly known as Taster's Choice) is an Italian metalcore band from Livorno, Italy. They formed in 1999 and have released two studio albums, Shining (2005) and The Rebirth (2009). As part of the metalcore scene, Tasters has opened for Cancer Bats, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Sonic Syndicate, Evergreen Terrace, Terror, Aiden and other American bands touring abroad. In December 2009, they toured with Scottish deathcore band Bleed from Within and as headliners in February–March 2010, also touring Russia for 30 shows. In June 2011, Tasters announced that the band has signed to Nuclear Blast for the releasing of their album Reckless Till the End.

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Teleology

Teleology or finality is a reason or explanation for something in function of its end, purpose, or goal.

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The Forest Fire

The Forest Fire (c. 1505) is a painting by Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo.

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The Graphic Canon

The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals (Seven Stories Press) is a three-volume anthology, edited by Russ Kick, that renders some of the world's greatest and most famous literature into graphic-novel form.

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The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things (also, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki) is a Canadian television series of documentary programs.

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The Perennial Philosophy

The Perennial Philosophy is a comparative study of mysticism by the British writer and novelist Aldous Huxley.

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The Search for Roots

The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology is a compilation of thirty pieces of prose and poetry selected by Italian-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi as part of an abortive project by his original Italian publisher Einaudi to identify the texts which most influenced major Italian writers.

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (UK title: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began) is a book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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Three-age system

The three-age system is the categorization of history into time periods divisible by three; for example, the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age, although it also refers to other tripartite divisions of historic time periods.

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Timeline of chemistry

The timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions.

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Tityos

Tityos or Tityus (Τιτυός) was a giant from Greek mythology.

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Top Girls

Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill.

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Trivia (mythology)

Trivia in Roman mythology was the goddess who "haunted crossroads, graveyards, and was the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft, she wandered about at night and was seen only by the barking of dogs who told of her approach." Despite popular belief, she was not the equivalent of the Greek goddess Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, the three-way crossroads and the harvest moon.

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Tutelary deity

A tutelary (also tutelar) is a deity or spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation.

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Utopia (book)

Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin.

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Vera Ermolaeva

Vera Ermolaeva (Ве́ра Миха́йловна Ермола́ева) (November 2, 1893September 26, 1937) was a Russian painter, graphic artist and illustrator who participated in the Russian avant-garde movement.

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Weak position (poetry)

In the analysis of poetic meter, weak position is either of two things.

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Zuism

Zuism or Sumerian-Mesopotamian Neopaganism define a modern Pagan religious movement based on the Sumerian religion (and later Mesopotamian religions which continued it), and calls itself the "oldest religion, foundation of all major religions".

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1656 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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1682 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles concerning that nation's poetry or literature (for example, Irish or French).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rerum_natura

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