# Lucretius

- id: lucretius
- name in original script: Titus Lucretius Carus
- dates: c. 99 BCE–55 BCE
- roles: author

Roman Epicurean poet. His one book spent the Middle Ages asleep in a handful of monastic copies, which is why its chain begins with a manuscript hunter.

## Works in the atlas

- De Rerum Natura (de-rerum-natura)

## Sources

- L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson (2013). Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature.