FTP, name this Epicurean epic, written near the end of the Roman Republic by Titus Lucretius Carus.
It begins with a prayer to Venus, who the poet asks to befriend him as he writes the work for Memmius. Book One establishes that things cannot be reduced to nothingness, while later books show that all things in the universe, including the soul, are  mortal. FTP, name this Epicurean epic, written near the end of the Roman Republic by Titus Lucretius Carus.
It begins with a prayer to Venus, who the poet asks to befriend him as he writes the work for Memmius.
On the Nature of Things (accept De rerum natura)