Lucretius Collection

Titus Lucretius Carus
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Roman poet and philosopher

House of Marcus Lucretius, Pompeii, Italy, Victorian period

House of Marcus Lucretius, Reg IX, Ins 3, 5, 24, Pompeii. View of the courtyard with impluvium, tablinum with mosaic floor, and garden with statues of satyrs and cupids

Commemorative plaque to Augustus on behalf of the freeman L. Lucretius Zethus. From Via di Monte Brianzo. 1st century AD. Roman National Museum. Palazzo Massimo. Rome. Italy

Thomas Creech
THOMAS CREECH : classical scholar, noted for his translations of Lucretius &c. Sadly, a growing melancholia - and a thwarted amour - drove him to take his own life. Date: 1659 - 1700

Four bulldogs on a greetings card -- The Philosophers. With quotations (forming a four-line verse) from Lucretius, Hamlet, Kirke White and Democritus. Date: circa 1890s

Pompeii - Italy - Casa di Marco Lucrezio - known as the Players Date: circa 1910s

Lucretius Title Page
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS portrayed on the title-page of a 1768 French edition of his writings

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