Talk:Lucretius

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[edit] Content Breakdown

I once was driven to count and categorize the topic of each line in De Rerum Natura and found the following: "discussions of chemistry, the nature of atoms, and their effects takes up about 52% of the text, discussions of natural phenomena consist of 17.3%, origins of man takes up 10.2%, exploration of astronomy 8.3%, praise of Epicurus 3.6%, discussions of sex/love 3.5%, on death is about 2.7% of the text, a chemical analysis of nature of body and soul takes up about 1.7%, the authors own explanation of his work 0.5%, and finally the topic of money takes over 0.3% of the text." I find these statistics interesting, but I rarely see such a breakdown on wiki's... nevertheless I though it was at least worthy of the discussion page.