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.

    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty - Letter to Herodotus 09 - Epicurus' Rejection of Infinite Divisibility 10

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    2. Episode One Hundred Nineteen - Letter to Herodotus 08 - More On Perception Through The Atoms 18

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode One Hundred Eighteen - Letter to Herodotus 07 - "Images" - There's More To Them Than Meets The Eye 25

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    4. Don

    2. Episode One Hundred Seventeen - Letter to Herodotus 06 - The Doctrine of Infinity of Worlds And Its Implications 15

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    4. Don

    2. Episode One Hundred Sixteen - Letter to Herodotus 05 - More Fundamental Physics 4

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    4. Joshua

    2. Episode One Hundred Fifteen - Letter to Herodotus 04 - Atoms, Void, and Basic Epistemology Issues 15

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    4. Don

    2. Episode One Hundred Fourteen - Letter to Herodotus 03 - The Starting Point of Physics 5

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    4. Don

    2. Episode One Hundred Thirteen - Letter to Herodotus 02 - Principles of Thinking 4

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    4. Don

    2. Episode One Hundred Twelve - Epicurus' Letter to Herodotus 01 (Introduction) 6

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    4. Don

    2. Episode One Hundred Eleven - Torquatus Summarizes The Significance of the Epicurus 12

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    4. Godfrey

    2. Episode One Hundred Ten - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part 2) 8

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    4. Joshua

    2. Episode One Hundred Nine - The Epicurean View of Friendship 11

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    4. Cassius

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

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    4. smoothiekiwi

    2. Episode One Hundred Seven - The Epicurean Emphasis on Natural Science 8

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode One Hundred Six - The Epicurean Attitude Toward Fate / Fortune and the Role of Reason 22

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    4. Joshua

    2. Episode One Hundred Five - More From Torquatus On The Key Doctrines of Epicurus 10

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    4. Scott

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

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode One Hundred Three - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Three 9

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    4. Godfrey

    2. Episode One Hundred Two - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Two 30

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode One Hundred One - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part One 7

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    4. Kalosyni

    2. Episode One Hundred - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place 7

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    4. Don

    2. Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15

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    4. Kalosyni

    2. Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16

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    4. Don

    2. Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4

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

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    4. Don

    2. Episode Ninety-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem (pre-Production) 1

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    2. Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6

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    4. Joshua

    2. Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2

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    2. Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3

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    2. Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6

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    4. Don

    2. Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6

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    4. Don

    2. Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7

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    2. Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2

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    4. Cassius

    2. Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10

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    2. Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5

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    4. Don

    2. Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23

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    2. Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3

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    2. Episode Seventy-Nine - The Cause of the Arising of Belief In Gods 1

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    2. Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2

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    2. Episode Seventy-Seven - Formation of Language and Early Societies 1

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    2. Episode Seventy-Six - The Rise of Humans and Early Human Society 5

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    2. Episode Seventy-Five - The Rise of Life On Earth, And Which Forms Were Possible And Impossible 1

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    2. Episode Seventy-Four - Eclipses, And The Beginnings of Life on Earth 1

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    2. Episode Seventy-Three - More on The Sun, The Moon, And Related Astronomical Questions 5

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