The Lucretius Today Podcast
The Lucretius Today Podcast is a weekly panel discussion and presentation of Epicurean philosophy. Our current podcasters are: Cassius, Martin, Joshua, Kalosyni, and Don. Each episode of the show has a thread below with podcast notes and listener comments. The podcast is available for free subscription at all major podcast sources. For the text of Lucretius read during the first 92 episodes, click here to download the EpicureanFriends Reference Edition of Lucretius. For the full podcast home page click here to go to LucretiusToday.com.
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Episode 202 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 10 - The Animality Argument 23
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November 18, 2023 at 5:16 AM
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Episode 200 - Lucretius Today 200th Episode - Retrospective, Recap, and Looking To The Future 17
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October 30, 2023 at 3:04 AM
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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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August 25, 2023 at 8:11 AM
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Text And Reference Links - Lucretius Today Podcast 9
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December 3, 2019 at 10:27 AM
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Episodes Of Lucretius Today Available At Archive.org 3
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September 19, 2022 at 4:12 PM
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What Kinds Of Podcasts Should We Target First? 3
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July 29, 2019 at 10:38 AM
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Special Podcast Episode: Epicurus against the Stoics
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February 8, 2020 at 9:14 AM
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February 8, 2020 at 9:14 AM
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Special Podcast Episode: Epicurus Against the Platonists / Aristotelians
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February 8, 2020 at 9:17 AM
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February 8, 2020 at 9:17 AM
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Promo And Highlights For The Lucretius Podcast 1
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October 26, 2019 at 4:50 PM
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April 3, 2020 at 8:47 AM
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Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10
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August 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM
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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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Lucretius Today - Episodes of Special Note 3
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January 10, 2023 at 1:19 PM
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Episodes of Lucretius Today Podcast at Youtube 1
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September 9, 2023 at 7:19 PM
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Episode Two - The Achievement of Epicurus 28
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January 11, 2020 at 12:04 PM
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October 3, 2020 at 10:20 PM
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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 6, 2020 at 5:12 PM
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Episode Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1
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June 12, 2020 at 4:18 PM
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June 24, 2020 at 8:29 AM
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Episode Twenty-Six - The Atoms Are Not Uniform 4
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July 2, 2020 at 1:30 PM
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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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July 18, 2020 at 6:04 AM
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Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5
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May 29, 2020 at 1:50 PM
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Episode Twenty-Nine - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All 8
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July 20, 2020 at 4:34 PM
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Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2
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June 17, 2020 at 3:33 PM
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Episode Twenty-Five - The Swerve Part II - As the Basis of Human Agency 1
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June 24, 2020 at 2:59 PM
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Episode Twenty-Eight - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable 5
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July 16, 2020 at 10:27 AM
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Episode Twenty - The Universe Is Infinite In Size 1
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May 23, 2020 at 3:08 PM
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Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7
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March 22, 2020 at 6:46 PM
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Episode Three - So Great Is the Power of Religion To Inspire Evil Deeds! 18
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Episode Thirty-Two: The Atoms Are Colorless, But the Implications Are Not 17
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August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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Episode Thirty-Three - More on The Implications of the Colorless Atoms 21
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August 21, 2020 at 5:07 PM
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Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1
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September 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM
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Episode Thirty-Seven: End of Book Two - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die 1
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September 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM
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Episode Thirty-One - Continuation of Episode Thirty / Polyaenus 9
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August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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Episode Thirty-Nine - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot 11
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September 29, 2020 at 6:08 PM
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Episode Thirty-Four - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation 18
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August 29, 2020 at 12:41 PM
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Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2
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August 30, 2020 at 9:27 PM
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Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6
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September 26, 2020 at 10:23 AM
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Episode Thirty - Only A Limited Number of Combinations of Atoms Is Possible 21
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July 26, 2020 at 8:54 AM
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Episode Thirteen - Properties, Qualities, And the Trojan War 8
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March 29, 2020 at 11:05 AM
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Episode Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5
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March 9, 2020 at 11:11 PM
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Episode Sixty-Two - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 2) 11
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March 12, 2021 at 10:06 AM
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Episode Sixty-Three - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 3) 1
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March 17, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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Episode Sixty-Six - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!) 7
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April 9, 2021 at 5:44 PM
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Episode Sixty-Seven - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe? 23
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April 11, 2021 at 5:35 PM
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Episode Sixty-One - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 1) 5
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March 2, 2021 at 6:09 AM
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Episode Sixty-Nine - The End of Our World 1
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April 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM
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Episode Sixty-Four - Due To His Accomplishments, Epicurus Should Be Thought Of As Godlike 1
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March 25, 2021 at 8:18 PM
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Episode Sixty-Five - Introducing A New Panelist (Don) and Recapping the Opening of Book Five 14
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March 30, 2021 at 9:33 PM
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Episode Sixty-Eight - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity 1
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April 19, 2021 at 11:32 AM
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Episode Sixty - Dreams and the Mind's Use of Images 34
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February 27, 2021 at 9:07 AM
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Episode Sixteen - The Atoms Are Un-Destroyable And Provide Continuity To All Nature 1
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April 26, 2020 at 6:09 AM
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Episode Six - Step One: Nothing Comes From Nothing 2
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February 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM
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Episode Seventy-Two - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun 7
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May 20, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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Episode Seventy-Three - More on The Sun, The Moon, And Related Astronomical Questions 5
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May 26, 2021 at 9:46 PM
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