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De rerum natura, an Uncommon card
De rerum natura is a first-century BCE didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 84,000
Ranked #1,071 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through poetic language and metaphors.
- Namely, Lucretius explores the principles of atomism, the nature of the mind and soul, explanations of sensation and thought, the development of the world and its phenomena, and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena.
- The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna, and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The De rerum natura article was read about 84,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get De rerum natura
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, De rerum natura (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : In Latin, Copied by Girolamo di Matteo de Tauris for Sixtus IV, Italy, 1483, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
