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    2. An Epicurean Instagram 6

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    2. Announcement: An Award For The Best Thesis On Epicurus 1

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    2. Does Baloo Speak for Epicurus In the Song "Bare Necessities" from "The Jungle Book" Movie? 5

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    2. A Passage That Seems Particularly Appropriate About Now 5

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    2. David Konstan - Life worthy of the Gods 3

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    2. American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) 3

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    2. Thanks to Nate For The Recent Meme Additions 7

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    2. Nate's "Back of the Book" Graphic 5

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    2. John Adams and the "Ineffable Nonsense of Epicurus" 2

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    2. A. Le Grand's Divine Epicurus 1

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    2. Eleni Avdoulou wins the award NetoIP 2021 with a thesis about the Papyri of Herculaneum

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    2. Claude Adrienne Helvetius 5

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    2. Two Musical Treats - Don, and the Epicureans 8

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    2. Fun with Ambigrams 3

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    2. An Epicurean Understanding of Pleasure 96

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    2. Finding Cultural / Artistic / Musical Variations on Four Key Epicurean Themes 7

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    2. Multiple Components Comprise the Epicurean Life 30

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    2. Meme Creativity Requested! 4

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    2. "satisfactory to the epicurean" 2

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    2. The "No Need For Nihilism" Proof

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    2. Romantic Materialism, Materialist Romanticism 2

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    2. New Audio Version of Torquatus' Presentation of Epicurean Ethics - Read By Joshua 8

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    2. Preconceptions and PD24 42

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    2. Participants' Epicurean Book and Artifact Collections 16

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    2. Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 6

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    2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9

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