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Featured Threads - If You Are New Here, Check Out Our "Featured Threads" For Discussions Of Particular Interest!
- Kalosyni
December 4, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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- Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM
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Epicurus on Justice and the Virtues 1
- Hiram
August 2, 2019 at 7:16 PM
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Epicurus Revealed in Modern Science & Technology
- Patrikios
October 23, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Epicurus, Ionia and India. 5
- Rivelle
April 6, 2019 at 1:02 AM
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Epicurus, Marcion the Heretic, and Tertullian 2
- ScottW
June 8, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Epicurus: Against the Use of Empty Words 17
- Hiram
April 14, 2019 at 4:55 PM
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Epicurus' Birthday 2020 (Thu, Jan 2nd 2020 - Fri, Jan 3rd 2020)
- Cassius
November 1, 2019 at 2:07 PM
- Cassius
November 1, 2019 at 2:07 PM
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Epicurus' Birthday 2021 (Wed, Jan 20th 2021 - Thu, Jan 21st 2021)
- Cassius
November 1, 2019 at 2:09 PM
- Cassius
November 1, 2019 at 2:09 PM
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Epicurus' Dying Wishes - James Warren 5
- Hiram
August 9, 2019 at 9:25 AM
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Epicurus' Favorite Insults 13
- Cassius
April 29, 2021 at 1:15 PM
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Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus: "We Do Not Mean....." - Sentence Structure Analysis
- Cassius
July 1, 2019 at 8:37 AM
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Epicurus' On Nature, Books 10, 11 and 12 2
- Hiram
July 3, 2019 at 9:59 AM
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July 5, 2019 at 12:15 PM
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Epicurus' On Nature: Books XXV and XXVIII
- Hiram
August 5, 2019 at 2:03 PM
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Epicurus' Public Domain Translations - All At Once In One Place 20
- TauPhi
April 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Epicurus’ On Nature – Books XI-XIV
- Hiram
July 31, 2019 at 10:00 AM
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Epicurus’ On Nature, Books I-X 1
- Hiram
July 25, 2019 at 11:04 AM
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Epitomizing Philosophy and the Critique of Epicurean Popularizers 5
- Hiram
August 23, 2019 at 12:29 PM
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August 24, 2019 at 11:59 PM
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Erler's view on 'True Epicurean Politics' 7
- Peter Konstans
March 22, 2024 at 2:01 PM
- Peter Konstans
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Essenes or Epicureans? 3
- Don
March 29, 2023 at 8:02 AM
- Don
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Essentialism? 3
- Marco
January 3, 2022 at 7:15 AM
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Establishing a Regular Zoom For Better Coverage Of More Time Zones - Including Europe 3
- Cassius
April 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Estimation of Category Breakdown of Extant Texts 3
- Kalosyni
June 23, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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Eudoxus - Precursor to Epicurus and More Like Him Than Aristippus? 4
- Cassius
May 12, 2023 at 7:51 PM
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Eudoxus of Cnidus was a large camel 2
- Bryan
February 3, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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Evaluating "In Defense of Being Average" 11
- Cassius
June 14, 2019 at 8:57 AM
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Event Described in Torquatus 2
- ccarruth42
December 26, 2022 at 7:01 AM
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Facebook Becomes Ever-More Oppressive 3
- Cassius
May 24, 2019 at 5:28 AM
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Famous Historical Quotes *About* Epicurus 1
- Cassius
March 18, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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Feedback From A User 51
- Lee
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Fill in the Blank: "Epicurus Campaigned Primarily Against _________________" 5
- Cassius
April 24, 2023 at 10:42 AM
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Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 6
- Cassius
April 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM - General Discussion
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The “Absence of Pain” Problem 11
- Rolf
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Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9
- Kalosyni
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Preconceptions and PD24 42
- Eikadistes
December 14, 2021 at 5:50 PM - General Discussion
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The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47
- Kalosyni
April 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM - General Discussion
- Kalosyni
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