It is wild that Christianity so successfully suppressed it when in the first few centuries there were Christian sects that were interpreting the parable of the sower and mustard seed in terms of Lucretius's "seeds of things" while following a work dedicated to the discussion of an afterlife in the context of bodies with souls that depend on bodies (Gospel of Thomas).

It's like an entire branch of thought from antiquity was snipped away. The roots are still there, but no one is watering it and have collectively forgotten what's right below the surface, despite now independently confirming many of the ideas being entertained were wheat and not weeds after all.