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.
I started this graphic with the intent of having Column A be "Pleasure" and Column "B" be friendship, prudence, and a list of the "virtues." However in reading the Letter to Menoeceus closely, that is not how Epicurus summarizes his own philosophy of life.