Lucretius – Evolution's Poet

29/12/2014 14 min
Lucretius – Evolution's Poet

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Episode Synopsis

In the first century BC the Roman poet Lucretius wrote On the Nature of Things. A poem with 7400 lines of verse that covered everything from the tiniest particles of matter and how they move, as well as the nature of time and space, consciousness, mortality, and the arrival of life from animals to man.