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

      • Cassius
      • September 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM
      • Cassius
      • September 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM
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      September 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • September 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM
      • Cassius
      • September 19, 2020 at 1:51 PM
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    4. Cassius

      September 19, 2020 at 1:51 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2

      • Cassius
      • August 30, 2020 at 9:27 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM
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    4. Don

      September 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Four - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation 18

      • Cassius
      • August 29, 2020 at 12:41 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 2, 2020 at 11:58 AM
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    4. Cassius

      September 2, 2020 at 11:58 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • August 21, 2020 at 5:07 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 28, 2020 at 9:13 PM
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      August 28, 2020 at 9:13 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 25, 2020 at 3:58 PM
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    4. Godfrey

      August 25, 2020 at 3:58 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • August 10, 2020 at 11:27 PM
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    4. Don

      August 10, 2020 at 11:27 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-One - Continuation of Episode Thirty / Polyaenus 9

      • Cassius
      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
      • Cassius
      • August 10, 2020 at 9:45 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 10, 2020 at 9:45 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • August 2, 2020 at 8:06 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 2, 2020 at 8:06 PM

    2. Episode 31 - Continuation of Episode 30, And the Polyaenus Example

      • Cassius
      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Eight - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable 5

      • Cassius
      • July 16, 2020 at 10:27 AM
      • Cassius
      • July 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM
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    4. Cassius

      July 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • July 11, 2020 at 11:23 AM
      • Cassius
      • July 18, 2020 at 6:04 AM
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    4. Cassius

      July 18, 2020 at 6:04 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • July 3, 2020 at 6:55 PM
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    4. Cassius

      July 3, 2020 at 6:55 PM

    2. Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2

      • Cassius
      • June 27, 2020 at 9:18 AM
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    4. Cassius

      June 27, 2020 at 9:18 AM

    2. Episode Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1

      • Cassius
      • June 24, 2020 at 8:29 AM
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      June 24, 2020 at 8:29 AM

    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

      • Cassius
      • June 21, 2020 at 11:15 PM
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    4. Don

      June 21, 2020 at 11:15 PM

    2. Outline of Episodes - Serves As An Outline of the Poem As Well!

      • Cassius
      • June 17, 2020 at 3:17 PM
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    2. Episode Twenty - The Universe Is Infinite In Size 1

      • Cassius
      • May 30, 2020 at 12:16 PM
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      May 30, 2020 at 12:16 PM

    2. Episode Eighteen - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 4

      • Cassius
      • May 18, 2020 at 2:02 PM
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    4. Godfrey

      May 18, 2020 at 2:02 PM

    2. Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2

      • Cassius
      • April 27, 2020 at 10:44 AM
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      • May 9, 2020 at 9:41 AM
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      May 9, 2020 at 9:41 AM

    2. Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6

      • Cassius
      • April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM
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    4. Don

      April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM

    2. Episode Sixteen - The Atoms Are Un-Destroyable And Provide Continuity To All Nature 1

      • Cassius
      • April 26, 2020 at 6:09 AM
      • Cassius
      • April 27, 2020 at 10:32 AM
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      April 27, 2020 at 10:32 AM

    2. Episode Fifteen - Recap Two 1

      • Cassius
      • April 26, 2020 at 4:39 PM
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      April 26, 2020 at 4:39 PM

    2. Episode Thirteen - Properties, Qualities, And the Trojan War 8

      • Cassius
      • March 29, 2020 at 11:05 AM
      • Cassius
      • April 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM
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    4. Don

      April 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM

    2. Promo And Highlights For The Lucretius Podcast 1

      • Cassius
      • October 26, 2019 at 4:50 PM
      • Cassius
      • April 3, 2020 at 8:47 AM
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      April 3, 2020 at 8:47 AM

    2. Episode Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4

      • Cassius
      • March 17, 2020 at 6:42 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 28, 2020 at 2:20 PM
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      March 28, 2020 at 2:20 PM

    2. Episode Six - Step One: Nothing Comes From Nothing 2

      • Cassius
      • February 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 19, 2020 at 8:36 PM
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      February 19, 2020 at 8:36 PM

    2. Episode Five - On Resisting The Threats of Priests And Poets 2

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      • February 3, 2020 at 8:14 PM
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      • February 14, 2020 at 6:52 PM
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      February 14, 2020 at 6:52 PM

    2. Special Podcast Episode: Epicurus Against the Platonists / Aristotelians

      • Cassius
      • February 8, 2020 at 9:17 AM
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      • February 8, 2020 at 9:17 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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      • February 8, 2020 at 9:14 AM
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    2. New Translation of Epicurus' Works 1

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