books.google.com - The employment of mythological language and imagery by an Epicurean poet - a professed adherent of a system which was not only materialist, but overtly hostile to myth and poetry - is highly paradoxical. This apparent contradiction has often been ascribed to a conflict in the poet's personality, between...http://books.google.com/books/about/Myth_and_Poetry_in_Lucretius.html?id=gf8k02Iud74C&q=%22there+is+no+divine+providence%22&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMyth and Poetry in Lucretius
