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=== Antiquity ===
From an historical point of view we can see the origin of an atheistic existentialism already in the poetry of [[Lucretius]], which, in many passages of the ''De rerum natura'', evokes problems and feelings typical of modern existentialism <ref>Such thesis was recently asserted by [[Carlo Tamagnone]] in a philosophic essay titled ''Philosophic Atheism in the Ancient World, Florence 2004, pp.227-240</ref>.
We read in Book III:
<blockquote> Mind and soul, I say,
are held conjoined one with other,
And form one single nature of themselves;
But chief and regnant through the frame entire
Is still that counsel which we call the mind,
And that cleaves seated in the midmost breast.
Here leap dismay and terror; round these haunts
Be blandishments of joys; and therefore here
The intellect, the mind. The rest of soul,
Throughout the body scattered, but obeys—
Moved by the nod and motion of the mind.
This, for itself, sole through itself, hath thought;
This for itself hath mirth, even when the thing
That moves it, moves nor soul nor body at all. (Lucretius, ''On the nature of Things'', III Book, vv.136-146)</blockquote>
===Early Modern Period===
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