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Text And Reference Links - Lucretius Today Podcast 9
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Episode One Hundred Thirty Eight - Letter to Menoeceus 5 - Pleasure Part One 109
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Episode Ninety-Three: Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics 82
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Episode Fifty-Five - Reason Is Dependent On The Senses (Part 2) 56
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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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Episode 227 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 02 - Velleius Begins His Attack On Traditional Views Of The Gods 75
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Episode 196 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 06 62
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Episode 195 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 05 67
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Four - The Letter to Menoeceus 01- Context and Opening of the Letter 37
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Episode Sixty - Dreams and the Mind's Use of Images 34
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Episode Two - The Achievement of Epicurus 28
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Episode 166 - The Lucretius Today Podcast Interviews Dr. David Glidden on "Epicurean Prolepsis" 46
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Episode Three - So Great Is the Power of Religion To Inspire Evil Deeds! 18
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Episode 155 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 11 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 02 20
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Episode Forty-Two - The Mind works through the senses; it is a relatively small part of the body; the Mind has more power than the "spirit," but both mind and spirit are mortal 1
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Episode Sixty-Seven - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe? 23
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Episode One Hundred Four - More Torquatus and a Question: Was The Ancient Epicurean Movement A Cult? 45
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Episode One Hundred Eighteen - Letter to Herodotus 07 - "Images" - There's More To Them Than Meets The Eye 29
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Five - The Letter to Menoeceus 02 - On The Nature of the Gods 41
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Episode 154 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 10 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 01 50
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Episode One Hundred Eight - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science 42
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Episode Thirty - Only A Limited Number of Combinations of Atoms Is Possible 21
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Episode One Hundred Two - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Two 30
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Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15
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Episode Thirty-Three - More on The Implications of the Colorless Atoms 21
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Seven - The Letter to Menoeceus 04 - On Death (Part Two) 33
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Episode One Hundred Forty-One - Proclaiming Epicurus To The World: Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part One) 37
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Nine - The Letter to Menoeceus 06 - Pleasure Part Two 28
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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 11
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