Poetry:
De rerum natura, c. 60 B.C.E. (On the Nature of Things, 1682)
The Roman philosophical poet Titus Lucretius Carus, known as Lucretius (lew-KREE-shuhs), was a disciple of Epicurus (c. 342-270
On the Nature of Things, in six books of hexameter verse, is a didactic work based on the fourth century