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    2. Text And Reference Links - Lucretius Today Podcast 9

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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. Episode One Hundred Thirty Eight - Letter to Menoeceus 5 - Pleasure Part One 109

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    2. Episode Ninety-Three: Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics 82

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    2. Episode 234 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 09 - Dealing With Marcus Aurelius And The Canonical Basis For the Epicurean View Of Divinity 80

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    2. Episode Fifty-Five - Reason Is Dependent On The Senses (Part 2) 56

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    2. Episode 227 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 02 - Velleius Begins His Attack On Traditional Views Of The Gods 75

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    2. Episode One Hundred Thirty-Four - The Letter to Menoeceus 01- Context and Opening of the Letter 37

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    2. Episode 196 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 06 62

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    2. Episode 195 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 05 67

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    2. Episode 166 - The Lucretius Today Podcast Interviews Dr. David Glidden on "Epicurean Prolepsis" 46

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    2. Episode 155 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 11 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 02 20

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    2. Episode Sixty - Dreams and the Mind's Use of Images 34

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    2. Episode Two - The Achievement of Epicurus 28

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    2. Episode One Hundred Thirty-Five - The Letter to Menoeceus 02 - On The Nature of the Gods 41

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    2. Episode 154 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 10 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 01 50

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    2. Episode One Hundred Eighteen - Letter to Herodotus 07 - "Images" - There's More To Them Than Meets The Eye 29

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    2. Episode 267 - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation. 34

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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 One Hundred Four - More Torquatus and a Question: Was The Ancient Epicurean Movement A Cult? 45

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    2. Episode One Hundred Eight - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science 42

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    2. Episode Sixty-Seven - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe? 23

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    2. Episode One Hundred Thirty-Nine - The Letter to Menoeceus 06 - Pleasure Part Two 28

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    2. Episode One Hundred Thirty-Seven - The Letter to Menoeceus 04 - On Death (Part Two) 33

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    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-One - Proclaiming Epicurus To The World: Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part One) 37

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    2. Episode 295 - Plutarch's Absurd Interpretation of Epicurean Absence of Pain 66

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    2. Episode 172 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 25 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 01 6

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    2. Episode Thirty - Only A Limited Number of Combinations of Atoms Is Possible 21

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    2. Episode 237 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 12 - Isonomia And The Implications of Infinity 34

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