The Lucretius Today Podcast
The Lucretius Today Podcast is a weekly panel discussion and presentation of Epicurean philosophy. Our current podcasters are: Cassius, Martin, Joshua, Kalosyni, and Don. Each episode of the show has a thread below with podcast notes and listener comments. The podcast is available for free subscription at all major podcast sources. For the text of Lucretius read during the first 92 episodes, click here to download the EpicureanFriends Reference Edition of Lucretius. For the full podcast home page click here to go to LucretiusToday.com.
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Episode 200 - Lucretius Today 200th Episode - Retrospective, Recap, and Looking To The Future 17
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October 30, 2023 at 3:04 AM
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November 16, 2023 at 6:20 PM
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Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1
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September 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM
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Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2
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August 30, 2020 at 9:27 PM
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September 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM
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Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2
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April 27, 2020 at 10:44 AM
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Episode 189 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 41 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 04 12
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August 20, 2023 at 5:12 PM
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August 31, 2023 at 6:45 PM
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Episode 180 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 32 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 03 9
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June 18, 2023 at 7:45 AM
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June 30, 2023 at 6:37 PM
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Episode Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1
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June 12, 2020 at 4:18 PM
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June 24, 2020 at 8:29 AM
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Episode 190 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 01 11
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August 28, 2023 at 8:48 PM
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September 9, 2023 at 2:51 PM
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Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2
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December 18, 2020 at 8:20 PM
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December 27, 2020 at 12:38 PM
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Episode One Hundred Forty - The Letter to Menoeceus 07 - Completion of the Letter 7
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September 11, 2022 at 1:23 PM
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September 21, 2022 at 2:37 AM
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Episode One Hundred Thirty Two - Letter to Pythocles 06 - More On The Weather 5
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July 22, 2022 at 7:10 PM
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July 30, 2022 at 6:44 AM
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Episode 157 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin - Part Two 6
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January 19, 2023 at 10:13 AM
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July 1, 2023 at 12:33 PM
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Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2
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November 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM
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December 9, 2020 at 6:24 AM
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Episode 167 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 20 - Chapter 9 - The New Physics 02 9
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March 25, 2023 at 3:42 PM
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March 28, 2023 at 10:07 PM
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Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4
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October 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
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November 6, 2021 at 10:18 AM
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Episode 152 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 08 - The New Education 01 6
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December 6, 2022 at 9:26 AM
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December 13, 2022 at 10:41 PM
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Episode One Hundred Fourteen - Letter to Herodotus 03 - The Starting Point of Physics 5
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March 18, 2022 at 6:20 AM
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March 26, 2022 at 9:56 PM
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Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2
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June 17, 2020 at 3:33 PM
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June 27, 2020 at 9:18 AM
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Episode 214 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 21 - Cicero Argues For An Ideal View of Friendship and Happiness Which Epicureans Reject 8
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February 6, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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February 24, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Special Podcast Episode: Epicurus Against the Platonists / Aristotelians
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February 8, 2020 at 9:17 AM
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February 8, 2020 at 9:17 AM
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Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2
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July 3, 2021 at 3:27 PM
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July 10, 2021 at 5:59 PM
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Three - Letter to Pythocles 07 - Conclusion Of The Letter 6
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July 30, 2022 at 6:59 AM
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August 6, 2022 at 6:41 AM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-One - Letter to Herodotus 11 - Atoms, The Soul, And Those Who Are Well Disposed Towards Us 4
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May 8, 2022 at 8:34 AM
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May 23, 2022 at 9:35 AM
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Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6
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September 29, 2021 at 8:59 PM
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October 10, 2021 at 6:16 AM
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Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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December 11, 2020 at 10:09 PM
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December 22, 2020 at 4:56 PM
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Episode 179 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 31 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 02 10
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June 16, 2023 at 3:08 PM
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June 24, 2023 at 8:54 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Four - Letter to Herodotus 13 - Life On Other Worlds, Development of Language, And the Regular Motion of the Stars 5
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May 28, 2022 at 1:16 PM
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June 3, 2022 at 9:51 PM
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Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3
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January 16, 2021 at 8:01 AM
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Episode Twenty-Seven: There Is A Limit To The Size of Atoms 3
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July 11, 2020 at 11:23 AM
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July 18, 2020 at 6:04 AM
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Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2
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February 5, 2021 at 6:40 PM
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Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5
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September 3, 2021 at 10:33 AM
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September 6, 2021 at 7:57 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Three: Letter to Herodotus 12 - Events and Time 6
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May 20, 2022 at 5:20 PM
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May 28, 2022 at 12:26 PM
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Episode One Hundred Ten - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part 2) 8
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February 19, 2022 at 2:51 PM
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February 25, 2022 at 3:51 PM
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Episode 203 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 11 - Do The Senses Have Jurisdiction To Pronounce On The Supreme Good? 19
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November 26, 2023 at 6:58 AM
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December 2, 2023 at 6:20 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty Two - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 2) "Reality" 7
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September 28, 2022 at 5:41 AM
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Episode Twenty-Two - Book Two - Epicurean Philosophy As The Only Way To Defeat Fear of Death And Other Errors As To The Goal of Life 3
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June 6, 2020 at 5:12 PM
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Episode Five - On Resisting The Threats of Priests And Poets 2
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February 3, 2020 at 8:14 PM
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February 14, 2020 at 6:52 PM
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Episode One Hundred Thirty - Letter to Pythocles 04 - More on the Sun and Moon 4
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July 8, 2022 at 11:02 AM
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July 17, 2022 at 8:11 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Six - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 02 - The Three Divisions of Epicurean Philosophy 10
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October 24, 2022 at 5:46 AM
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November 4, 2022 at 11:20 AM
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Episode 188 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 40 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 03 (Not Yet Released)) 20
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August 17, 2023 at 9:43 PM
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August 24, 2023 at 8:06 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twelve - Epicurus' Letter to Herodotus 01 (Introduction) 7
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March 4, 2022 at 6:40 PM
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January 20, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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Episode One Hundred Seven - The Epicurean Emphasis on Natural Science 8
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January 28, 2022 at 3:32 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Two - Letter to Herodotus 10 - What it Means to "Exist" - Properties and Qualities 7
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May 14, 2022 at 10:15 PM
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Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5
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October 4, 2021 at 8:40 PM
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Episode One Hundred One - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part One 7
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December 17, 2021 at 6:09 PM
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Episode One Hundred Three - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Three 9
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December 31, 2021 at 11:02 PM
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January 8, 2022 at 7:42 PM
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Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6
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August 28, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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Episode Seventy-Six - The Rise of Humans and Early Human Society 5
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June 18, 2021 at 6:25 AM
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June 28, 2021 at 5:28 PM
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Six - The Letter to Menoeceus 03 - On Death (Part One) 10
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August 15, 2022 at 9:06 PM
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August 23, 2022 at 4:11 PM
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Episode Twenty-Six - The Atoms Are Not Uniform 4
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July 2, 2020 at 1:30 PM
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March 27, 2023 at 1:05 PM
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Episode Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4
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March 17, 2020 at 6:42 AM
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March 28, 2020 at 2:20 PM
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