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.
Listen to the latest Lucretius Today Podcast! Episode 226 is now available. We begin (with the help of Cicero's Epicurean spokesman) the first of a series of episodes to analyze the Epicurean view of the nature of the gods.
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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 Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6
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August 21, 2021 at 5:20 PM
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August 30, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7
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August 14, 2021 at 9:21 AM
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August 24, 2021 at 2:21 PM
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Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2
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August 6, 2021 at 5:19 PM
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August 14, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5
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July 31, 2021 at 9:35 AM
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August 6, 2021 at 11:02 PM
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Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10
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August 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM
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August 4, 2021 at 9:34 AM
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Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23
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July 22, 2021 at 9:15 PM
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August 2, 2021 at 10:53 AM
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Episode Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5
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March 9, 2020 at 11:11 PM
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July 31, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5
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May 29, 2020 at 1:50 PM
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July 28, 2021 at 7:41 AM
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Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4
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May 14, 2020 at 8:54 PM
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July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM
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Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7
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March 22, 2020 at 6:46 PM
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July 24, 2021 at 3:34 AM
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Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15
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January 11, 2020 at 11:58 AM
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July 22, 2021 at 10:59 AM
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Episode Seven - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing 7
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February 19, 2020 at 5:23 PM
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July 22, 2021 at 7:22 AM
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Episode Eight - Step Two: Nothing Goes To Nothing 5
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February 24, 2020 at 7:59 AM
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July 22, 2021 at 5:13 AM
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Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12
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January 26, 2020 at 8:53 AM
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July 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3
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July 17, 2021 at 6:28 AM
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July 18, 2021 at 10:44 PM
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Episode Seventy-Nine - The Cause of the Arising of Belief In Gods 1
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July 9, 2021 at 4:47 PM
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July 16, 2021 at 7:20 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 Seventy-Seven - Formation of Language and Early Societies 1
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June 25, 2021 at 8:38 PM
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July 2, 2021 at 3:44 PM
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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 Seventy-Five - The Rise of Life On Earth, And Which Forms Were Possible And Impossible 1
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June 9, 2021 at 8:06 PM
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Episode Seventy-Four - Eclipses, And The Beginnings of Life on Earth 1
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June 3, 2021 at 5:09 PM
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Episode Seventy-Three - More on The Sun, The Moon, And Related Astronomical Questions 5
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May 26, 2021 at 9:46 PM
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Episode Seventy-Two - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun 7
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May 20, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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Episode Seventy-One - The Formation Of the World (Our Part of the Universe) 20
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May 15, 2021 at 2:01 PM
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Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2
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May 7, 2021 at 9:03 PM
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Episode Sixty-Nine - The End of Our World 1
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April 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM
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Episode Sixty-Eight - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity 1
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April 19, 2021 at 11:32 AM
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April 27, 2021 at 9:48 PM
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Episode Sixty-Seven - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe? 23
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April 11, 2021 at 5:35 PM
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Episode Sixty-Six - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!) 7
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April 9, 2021 at 5:44 PM
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April 14, 2021 at 10:47 AM
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What Kinds Of Podcasts Should We Target First? 3
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July 29, 2019 at 10:38 AM
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April 11, 2021 at 9:31 AM
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Episode Sixty-Five - Introducing A New Panelist (Don) and Recapping the Opening of Book Five 14
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March 30, 2021 at 9:33 PM
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April 10, 2021 at 11:57 AM
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Episode Sixty-Four - Due To His Accomplishments, Epicurus Should Be Thought Of As Godlike 1
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March 25, 2021 at 8:18 PM
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March 30, 2021 at 9:10 PM
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Episode Sixty-Three - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 3) 1
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March 17, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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Episode Sixty-Two - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 2) 11
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March 12, 2021 at 10:06 AM
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Episode Sixty-One - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 1) 5
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March 2, 2021 at 6:09 AM
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Episode Sixty - Dreams and the Mind's Use of Images 34
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February 27, 2021 at 9:07 AM
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Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2
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February 19, 2021 at 10:26 AM
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Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 2
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February 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM
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February 19, 2021 at 8:40 PM
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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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February 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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Episode Fifty-Five - Reason Is Dependent On The Senses (Part 2) 56
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January 23, 2021 at 10:38 AM
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Episode Fifty-Six - More On The Operation of the Senses - Hearing And Taste 1
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January 25, 2021 at 4:58 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 Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1
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January 9, 2021 at 8:48 AM
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Episode Fifty-Two - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections 1
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January 2, 2021 at 11:59 AM
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Episode Fifty-One - The Workings of Images 17
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December 24, 2020 at 2:09 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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Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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December 11, 2020 at 10:09 PM
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Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1
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December 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM
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December 11, 2020 at 9:07 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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Episode Forty-Six - Conclusion of the Argument That the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death 1
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November 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM
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November 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM
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