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Cassius
July 8, 2026 at 7:09 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Don’s post in the thread During the time of Epicurus, who could read well enough to study philosophy?.Book 28 of On Nature ends with:
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He uses the word ἀκρόασις "hearing, hearkening or listening to" where "lecture series" is the translation even though its a written work. The work is also written partially as a dialogue between Metrodorus and… -
Don
July 8, 2026 at 7:03 AM Replied to the thread During the time of Epicurus, who could read well enough to study philosophy?.PostBook 28 of On Nature ends with:
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He uses the word ἀκρόασις "hearing, hearkening or listening to" where "lecture series" is the translation even though its a written work. The work is also written partially as a dialogue between Metrodorus and… -
Martin
Reaction (Post)July 8, 2026 at 4:53 AM […]
Raphael Raul ,
This is an interesting thread, to which I’ll post other replies. However, to this opening sentence, I would tell someone today, that I have heard this same refrain of similar “burdens” on married life for decades. It was true in… -
Martin
Reaction (Post)July 8, 2026 at 4:52 AM It is striking to observe how someone can speak of prudence while repeating the very error Aristotle made when he claimed that women have fewer teeth than men - without ever opening a single mouth to count. He preferred abstraction to reality, assumption… -
Cassius
July 8, 2026 at 4:46 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Raphael Raul’s post in the thread Episode 156 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin - Part One.Cassius, when I lived in Paris in the 1980s studying at L'Académie des Beaux, I went to Rome many times and had the opportunity to dig at the Roman Forum with an archaeological expedition through the American Academy in Rome. These and many other… -
Martin
Reaction (Post)July 8, 2026 at 4:45 AM Plutarch was not a neutral observer. He was a priest of the Delphic priesthood, an ideological guardian of the Platonic and religious establishment. When he could not refute Epicurus philosophically, he resorted to ad hominem attacks, moralistic slander,… -
Martin
July 8, 2026 at 4:43 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Don’s post in the thread During the time of Epicurus, who could read well enough to study philosophy?.All you really needed was one literate person in a given Epicurean community to read any correspondence or texts. My understanding is that it was common to listen to texts. This is what I understand happened in early Christian communities.
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Cassius
Reaction (Post)July 8, 2026 at 4:42 AM […]
I always appreciate it when references to specific texts are given. It provides assurance that we're all looking at the same thing, although interpretation/translations sometimes/often differ.
In your assertion that "the evidence that Epicurus believed…
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