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Romantic Materialism, Materialist Romanticism 2
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The "One and the Many" Question - Do You Fancy You Have Found Treasure of Wisdom In This? Do You Puzzle Your Friends And Even Your Dog About It? What In the World Is Socrates Talking About? 18
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"satisfactory to the epicurean" 2
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Multiple Components Comprise the Epicurean Life 30
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Meme Creativity Requested! 4
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Finding Cultural / Artistic / Musical Variations on Four Key Epicurean Themes 7
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The Pocket Epicurean by John Sellars 4
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Frank Rose and Narrative Thinking
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Gods meme 3
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Goethe and Epicurus / Lucretius
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International festival of philosophy phil. Cologne 2021 (Thu, Sep 2nd 2021, 8:30 pm-Wed, Sep 8th 2021, 11:00 pm)
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If We Could Commission Davide Baldoni To Do More Scenes From Lucretius, What Would You Suggest They Be?
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Carl Sagan, the 4th dimension, episode 20 of Lucretius Today, physics 48
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Cassius' Ebooks 1
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Two Musical Treats - Don, and the Epicureans 8
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So, this is what we're up against... 8
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Martial, Ode on Mount Vesuvius 5
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Elayne Reviews Alan Reye's Editorial on Thomas Jefferson 2
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Vice article on Stoicism (mentions Epicurus) 2
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Eleni Avdoulou wins the award NetoIP 2021 with a thesis about the Papyri of Herculaneum
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A. Le Grand's Divine Epicurus 1
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Mocking Epithets 3
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Best Lucretius translation? 12
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The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 4
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New Blog Post From Elli - " Fanaticism and the Danger of Dogmatism in Political and Religious Thought: An Epicurean Reading"
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