Read and respond to the selections from Lucretius’s On the Order of Things. Here

Read and respond to the selections from Lucretius’s On the Order of Things. Here are some questions to mull
over as you read:
• What is Lucretius’ attitude towards death? Do you think we should adopt that attitude? Why or why
not?
– How would you describe Lucretius’ language? Why might he have written the he wrote?
• Lucretius writes, “we find that the requirements of our bodily nature are few indeed, no more than is
necessary to banish pain, and also to spread out many pleasures for ourselves” (43). What does he mean
by that? How does he support this claim?
• How would you characterize Lucretius” attitude towards romance and sex? What about his attitude
towards women?