Ontologia, verità e poesia

In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius opts to convey the Epicurean philosophy’s harsh outlook on the nature of Reality, including the forms of life and death, and the movement of atoms in the void, through a seemingly incongruent medium: poetry. One may wonder why poetry was chosen as the best way to present such definitive and concrete truths about the ontology of the Universe. My interpretation will examine the connection between literary expression and philosophical truth, and how this relationship reflects a multi-level concept of truth, with ramifications supporting each other holistically, like a tree whose roots are deeply entrenched in its fruits, thus linking the Latin poem to some of the most cutting-edge theories in contemporary ontology.