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    2. Episode 308 - TD36 - Tracing Epicurus' Key Ideas From the Principal Doctrines To The Tetrapharmakon To Cicero's Epicurean Speakers 19

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      • November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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      • November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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      November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM

    2. 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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    4. Cassius

      April 11, 2021 at 9:31 AM

    2. 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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    4. Don

      September 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM

    2. Episode 260 - The Universe Is Infinite And Eternal And Has No Gods Over It 4

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      • December 18, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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      • December 24, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 24, 2024 at 4:08 PM

    2. Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3

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      • June 16, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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      June 16, 2024 at 1:40 PM

    2. Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2

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      • May 15, 2021 at 8:04 PM
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    4. Don

      May 15, 2021 at 8:04 PM

    2. 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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      September 18, 2021 at 9:23 AM

    2. 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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    4. Cassius

      September 25, 2021 at 11:05 AM

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

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      • June 27, 2020 at 9:18 AM
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      June 27, 2020 at 9:18 AM

    2. 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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      • January 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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      January 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM

    2. 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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      • April 12, 2023 at 4:45 PM
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    4. Don

      April 12, 2023 at 4:45 PM

    2. 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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      • January 31, 2023 at 7:01 AM
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      January 31, 2023 at 7:01 AM

    2. Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs? 3

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      • November 18, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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      • November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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      November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM

    2. Episode 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us 3

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      • December 23, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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      • December 30, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 30, 2024 at 9:05 PM

    2. Episode 262 - He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing 4

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      • December 29, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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      • January 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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    4. Eikadistes

      January 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM

    2. 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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      • January 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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      January 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM

    2. 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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      • March 3, 2021 at 8:05 AM
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      March 3, 2021 at 8:05 AM

    2. Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2

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      • September 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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      • October 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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      October 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM

    2. 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 11, 2022 at 10:01 AM
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      June 11, 2022 at 10:01 AM

    2. 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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      • October 22, 2022 at 2:51 PM
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      October 22, 2022 at 2:51 PM

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

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      • July 18, 2021 at 10:44 PM
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    4. Cassius

      July 18, 2021 at 10:44 PM

    2. Episode 288 - TD18 - Tusculan Disputations Part 3 - "Will The Wise Man Feel Grief Or Other Strong Emotions?" 11

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      • July 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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    4. Don

      July 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM

    2. 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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      January 17, 2021 at 1:05 PM

    2. Episode 175 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 27 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 04 3

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      • May 24, 2023 at 10:20 PM
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      May 24, 2023 at 10:20 PM

    2. 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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      • September 19, 2023 at 1:11 PM
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      September 19, 2023 at 1:11 PM

    2. Episode 281 - TD12 - Is Pain The Greatest Evil - Or Even An Evil At All? 6

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      • May 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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      May 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM

    2. 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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      July 18, 2020 at 6:04 AM

    2. 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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      • February 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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      February 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM

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

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      • July 10, 2021 at 5:59 PM
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      July 10, 2021 at 5:59 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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