Lucretius's six-book Latin poem presenting Epicurean atomism — the universe is atoms and void, the soul is mortal, the gods are indifferent — as the philosophical cure for religious terror.
The most complete surviving account of Epicurean physics; argues liberation from religious fear comes from understanding nature; presents the clinamen (atomic swerve) as the source of free will and novelty in a deterministic world.
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