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New Users Please Read Here First 1
- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
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- Kalosyni
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Ideas For 2025?
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Oenoanda fragments
- TauPhi
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Happy Hogmanay (a day late)!
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Aonius Palearius - Sixteenth Century Figure With Some Epicurean Sympathies
- Cassius
December 30, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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New Slideshow: Nothing Comes From Nothing
- Cassius
November 10, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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An Example of Stoic Logical Reasoning - On Divination
- Cassius
October 26, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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Epicurus Revealed in Modern Science & Technology
- Patrikios
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Empedocles Document Found
- kochiekoch
September 10, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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New Forum - "Unsolved Mysteries" of Epicurean History
- Cassius
June 23, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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What Epicurus Might Say In Response To Common Cliches
- Kalosyni
April 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Elli - On Euphronius
- Cassius
March 28, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Modern Online Public Domain Expanded Usener Collection
- Cassius
March 24, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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Non-reversing mirror
- Bryan
March 12, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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Nate's "First Generation Epicureans" Research
- Cassius
February 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Idola Fori
- DavidN
February 21, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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Place to Discuss Epicurean Organizational Theory and Practice
- Cassius
February 4, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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Active Research Projects Page
- Cassius
January 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Biography Entries
- Cassius
November 20, 2023 at 3:29 PM
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A Sense of Guilt Among the Early Greeks? (C. S. Lewis)
- Joshua
August 27, 2023 at 12:29 AM
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The Illusory Walls of Safety
- Eikadistes
August 21, 2023 at 3:03 PM
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Ninon de l'Enclos site
- kochiekoch
August 7, 2023 at 10:17 PM
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The Sliver of the New Moon at Nightfall (Tue, Jul 18th 2023, 8:00 am-8:00 pm)
- Joshua
July 16, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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The First New Moon After the Summer Solstice (Mon, Jul 17th 2023)
- Joshua
July 16, 2023 at 7:29 PM
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Animal Intelligence - Parrots and Videoconferencing
- Cassius
June 4, 2023 at 7:11 PM
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Elli Quote From Pericles: "And the pleasure which we daily feel in all these things helps us to banish any sorrow."
- Cassius
May 28, 2023 at 9:14 AM
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Early homo sapiens and sociability.
- kochiekoch
May 17, 2023 at 9:42 PM
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Reminder About The "No Politics" Rule At EpicureanFriends
- Cassius
March 31, 2023 at 12:46 PM
- Cassius
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LaMettrie, Anticipations, and Epicurean Thought
- Cassius
March 8, 2023 at 9:42 AM
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"AI" Images
- Eikadistes
February 16, 2023 at 9:26 AM
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Friendship Commentary By Elli (At Facebook 02/25/23)
- Cassius
January 26, 2023 at 7:58 PM
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Confusion: "The feelings are only two" 48
- Rolf
May 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM - General Discussion
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Daily life of ancient Epicureans / 21st Century Epicureans 31
- Robert
May 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM - General Discussion
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Brain-storming Ideas for Future Study Groups 10
- Kalosyni
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Words of wisdom from Scottish comedian Billy Connolly 5
- Don
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⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus 102
- michelepinto
March 18, 2021 at 11:59 AM - General Discussion
- michelepinto
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