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Cassius
October 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM Replied to the thread Episode 302 - TD30 - Epicurus and Roads Paved With Good Intentions.PostEpisode 302 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. This week our episode is entitled: "Epicurus And The Road That Is Paved With Good Intentions"
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epicurista
October 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM Has solved the quiz Basic Epicurean Canonics.Quiz -
Kalosyni
October 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM Replied to the thread The Archaic Smile.Post[…]
Yes, thank you for making that clear (I have now added an edit note to that post (in post 5 above).
It is interesting to think about how smiles can hide inner emotions (such as in the dying warrior smiling) but perhaps a scowling expression appears… -
Kalosyni
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October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Epicurista!.PostThanks! I hope to be an active contributor to the forum threads. -
Cassius
October 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Epicurista!.PostEpicurista tells me:
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Cassius
October 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM Posted the thread Welcome Epicurista!.ThreadWelcome epicurista !
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October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM Has solved the quiz Basic Epicurean Ethics.Quiz -
Cassius
October 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM Replied to the thread The Archaic Smile.Post[…]
I would definitely want the one on the left - the real Epicurus - the way he was portrayed by the people who knew him best!
We ought to note for the record that the one on the right is a creative alteration, and not authentic!
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Cassius
ThreadOctober 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM Welcome to Episode 303 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the… -
Martin
October 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM Replied to the thread The Archaic Smile.PostThe Archaic Smile is shown and mentioned at the end of the thread
Martin's Visit to Gottingen Archaeological Museum - Statues of Epicurus and Metrodorus - and a certain other person with outstretched hand - Member Life Events, Musings, and Condolences -… -
epicurista
October 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM Has solved the quiz Basic Epicurean Physics.Quiz -
Martin
October 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM Replied to the thread Welcome Wbernys!.Post[…]
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Don gave already a good answer, but OK, here is my answer:
The space with properties (field) is a kind of "Epicurean void", and there is space in-between particles, which is empty almost everywhere most of the time under typical circumstances on… -
Kalosyni
October 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM Replied to the thread The Archaic Smile.Post[…]
We've discussed this elsewhere (will need to find the link)...there is a time and a place for everything...
Which Epicurus would you want at your Birthday party or Twentieth Celebration?
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Cassius
October 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM Replied to the thread Episode 302 - TD30 - Epicurus and Roads Paved With Good Intentions.PostComments on this episode:
1 - Joshua stresses that Cicero seems to object to Epicurus' labeling of pain as evil even more than he objects to labeling pleasure as good.
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Kalosyni
October 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM Replied to the thread The Archaic Smile.Post -
Cassius
October 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM Replied to the thread The Archaic Smile.PostYes a good topic, and something to correlate with the observation that to my knowledge none of the statues of Epicurus or any other Epicurean shows them smiling, but rather more serious or, in the case of Epicurus, intense. -
Kalosyni
October 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.Post -
Kalosyni
October 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM Replied to the thread The Archaic Smile.PostThanks Adrastus for bringing this up. The Wikipedia link you included shows a few examples of sculptures, and really piques my interest. -
Adrastus
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Adrastus
October 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM Posted the thread The Archaic Smile.ThreadI was wondering if there was any connection between Diogenes of Oinoanda believing we ought to depict the Gods as smiling, with the Archaic Smile.
I vaguely remember reading some scholarship that perhaps Epicurean Philosophy was a kind of pre-Socratic… -
Adrastus
October 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM Replied to the thread Anti-Natalism: The Opposite of Epicureanism.PostAnti-Natalism is largely irrelevant to me as I have children. As a Dad who tries and has tried to share the tasks of raising children and with a partner who thinks outside of the cultural box on the solutions to problems of contemporary motherhood, I… -
Cassius
October 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.PostHappy Birthday to Cyrano! Learn more about Cyrano and say happy birthday on Cyrano's timeline: Cyrano -
Martin
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Wbernys!.PostWelcome Wbernys! -
Cassius
October 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM Replied to the thread Welcome Wbernys!.Post[…]
I think the posts above have done a good job of responding to the size of the sun concern, so I'll add only how I fit all this together in my mind:
Epicurus' main concern was fighting against those who think that their minds can impose their will and… -
Eikadistes
October 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM Replied to the thread Welcome Wbernys!.Post[…]
From my humble attempts at translating, I have never found a statement where Epíkouros positively says that the sun is a hot melon a few miles up. He never gives a definite size, suggesting that "the [Sun] in relation to itself, either [it is] greater… -
Cassius
October 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.PostHappy Birthday to HollyGraves! Learn more about HollyGraves and say happy birthday on HollyGraves's timeline: HollyGraves -
Don
October 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Wbernys!.PostFair enough. I certainly see where you're coming from.
I personally find it hard to believe Epicurus and his school really thought that the sun was about the size of a football when he wrote it "may be a little larger or a little smaller, or precisely as… -
wbernys
October 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Wbernys!.PostI've actually already read Gellar-Goad's article Don but sad to say I find it a little muddled and think we just need to accept the Epicureans we're wrong on this, they simply didn't have the tools we have. I think explanations of "real meaning" fall… -
Joshua
October 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Wbernys!.PostWelcome!
Regarding the gods, the size of the sun, and the findings of modern physics, these are questions of perennial interest around here.
My own view is this: if I am going to hold forth as an Epicurean, I have an obligation to try to understand his…
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