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    2. Text And Reference Links - Lucretius Today Podcast 9

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      • December 3, 2019 at 10:27 AM
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    2. Episodes Of Lucretius Today Available At Archive.org 4

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    2. Complete Episode Guide

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    2. What Kinds Of Podcasts Should We Target First? 3

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      April 11, 2021 at 9:31 AM

    2. Upcoming Series: The Lucretius Today Podcast Reviews And Responds To Books One And Two of Cicero's On Ends

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      • August 25, 2023 at 8:11 AM
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    2. Special Podcast Episode: Epicurus against the Stoics

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      • February 8, 2020 at 9:14 AM
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    2. Special Podcast Episode: Epicurus Against the Platonists / Aristotelians

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      • February 8, 2020 at 9:17 AM
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    2. Promo And Highlights For The Lucretius Podcast 1

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      • October 26, 2019 at 4:50 PM
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    2. Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10

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      • August 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM
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    2. Outline of Episodes - Serves As An Outline of the Poem As Well!

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      • June 17, 2020 at 3:17 PM
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    2. Lucretius Today Podcast Interview Questions (Interviews Project Starting 2023) 6

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      • December 16, 2022 at 8:52 AM
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      December 31, 2022 at 12:55 PM

    2. Lucretius Today - Episodes of Special Note 3

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      • January 10, 2023 at 1:19 PM
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    2. Episodes of Lucretius Today Podcast at Youtube 1

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      • September 9, 2023 at 7:19 PM
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      September 19, 2023 at 11:02 AM

    2. Episode Two - The Achievement of Epicurus 28

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      • January 11, 2020 at 12:04 PM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Two - Book Two - Epicurean Philosophy As The Only Way To Defeat Fear of Death And Other Errors As To The Goal of Life 3

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      • June 21, 2020 at 11:15 PM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1

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    2. Episode Twenty-Six - The Atoms Are Not Uniform 4

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    2. Episode Twenty-Seven: There Is A Limit To The Size of Atoms 3

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      • July 11, 2020 at 11:23 AM
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    2. Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5

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    2. Episode Twenty-Nine - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All 8

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      • August 2, 2020 at 8:06 PM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2

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    2. Episode Twenty-Five - The Swerve Part II - As the Basis of Human Agency 1

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    2. Episode Twenty-Eight - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable 5

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    2. Episode Twenty - The Universe Is Infinite In Size 1

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    2. Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7

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    2. Episode Three - So Great Is the Power of Religion To Inspire Evil Deeds! 18

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    2. Episode Thirty-Two: The Atoms Are Colorless, But the Implications Are Not 17

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    2. Episode Thirty-Three - More on The Implications of the Colorless Atoms 21

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    2. Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1

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    2. Episode Thirty-Seven: End of Book Two - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die 1

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    2. Best Lucretius translation? 12

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    2. The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 4

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    2. New Blog Post From Elli - " Fanaticism and the Danger of Dogmatism in Political and Religious Thought: An Epicurean Reading"

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