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 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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November 16, 2023 at 6:20 PM
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Episode 193 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 03 4
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September 18, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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Episode 192 - Special Edition - Chapter 16 of A Few Days In Athens 4
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September 12, 2023 at 6:47 PM
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Episode 185 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 37 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 08 4
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July 28, 2023 at 8:24 AM
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Episode 173 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 26 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 02 4
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May 6, 2023 at 6:59 PM
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Episode 171 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 24 - Chapter 11 - Soul, Sensation, and Mind 01 4
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April 21, 2023 at 4:01 PM
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Episode 150 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 06 - Development of the School in Mytilene and Lampsacus 4
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November 23, 2022 at 8:23 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Nine - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 05 - The Early Years of Epicurus 4
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November 17, 2022 at 8:15 AM
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November 23, 2022 at 10:23 AM
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Episode One Hundred Thirty - Letter to Pythocles 04 - More on the Sun and Moon 4
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July 8, 2022 at 11:02 AM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-One - Letter to Herodotus 11 - Atoms, The Soul, And Those Who Are Well Disposed Towards Us 4
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May 8, 2022 at 8:34 AM
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Episode One Hundred Sixteen - Letter to Herodotus 05 - More Fundamental Physics 4
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April 3, 2022 at 5:12 AM
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Episode One Hundred Thirteen - Letter to Herodotus 02 - Principles of Thinking 4
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March 13, 2022 at 8:29 AM
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March 18, 2022 at 3:38 PM
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Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4
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October 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
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November 6, 2021 at 10:18 AM
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Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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December 11, 2020 at 10:09 PM
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December 22, 2020 at 4:56 PM
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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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March 27, 2023 at 1:05 PM
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Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4
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May 14, 2020 at 8:54 PM
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July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM
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Episode Eighteen - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 4
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May 8, 2020 at 9:15 PM
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May 18, 2020 at 2:02 PM
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Episode Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4
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March 17, 2020 at 6:42 AM
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March 28, 2020 at 2:20 PM
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Episode 208 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 16 - Epicurus Stands For the Truth Rather than Make-Believe 3
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December 30, 2023 at 7:55 PM
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Episode 198 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 07 3
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October 18, 2023 at 7:48 PM
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Episode 175 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 27 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 04 3
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May 21, 2023 at 9:31 AM
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Episode 169 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 22 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 02 3
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April 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM
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Episode 161 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 15 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 02 (Sensations and Not An Empiricist) 3
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February 10, 2023 at 5:27 PM
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Episode 160 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 14 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 01 3
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January 31, 2023 at 7:19 AM
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Episode 158 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 12 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 03 3
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January 19, 2023 at 10:15 AM
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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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Episode One Hundred Forty-Four - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 4) Virtue Not The Highest Good 3
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October 11, 2022 at 5:21 PM
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Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3
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September 10, 2021 at 12:07 PM
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September 18, 2021 at 9:23 AM
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Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3
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July 17, 2021 at 6:28 AM
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July 18, 2021 at 10:44 PM
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Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3
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January 16, 2021 at 8:01 AM
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January 17, 2021 at 1:05 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-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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June 21, 2020 at 11:15 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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April 11, 2021 at 9:31 AM
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Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure 2
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January 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Three - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 3) The Superiority of The Epicurean Viewpoint on "Gods" 2
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October 5, 2022 at 10:51 AM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Five - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Completion of the Letter 2
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June 4, 2022 at 5:52 PM
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Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2
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September 17, 2021 at 5:10 PM
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September 25, 2021 at 11:05 AM
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Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2
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August 6, 2021 at 5:19 PM
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August 14, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2
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July 3, 2021 at 3:27 PM
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Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2
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May 7, 2021 at 9:03 PM
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Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2
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February 19, 2021 at 10:26 AM
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Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 2
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February 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM
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Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2
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February 5, 2021 at 6:40 PM
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Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2
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December 18, 2020 at 8:20 PM
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Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2
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November 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM
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Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2
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October 17, 2020 at 12:00 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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September 15, 2020 at 1:57 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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June 27, 2020 at 9:18 AM
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Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2
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April 27, 2020 at 10:44 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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February 19, 2020 at 8:36 PM
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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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