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
- Cassius
October 30, 2023 at 3:04 AM
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November 16, 2023 at 6:20 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 Thirty-Four - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation 18
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August 29, 2020 at 12:41 PM
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September 2, 2020 at 11:58 AM
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Episode Thirty-Three - More on The Implications of the Colorless Atoms 21
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August 21, 2020 at 5:07 PM
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August 28, 2020 at 9:13 PM
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Episode Thirty-Two: The Atoms Are Colorless, But the Implications Are Not 17
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August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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August 25, 2020 at 3:58 PM
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Episode 31 - Continuation of Episode 30, And the Polyaenus Example
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August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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Episode Thirty-One - Continuation of Episode Thirty / Polyaenus 9
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August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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August 10, 2020 at 9:45 PM
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Episode Thirty - Only A Limited Number of Combinations of Atoms Is Possible 21
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July 26, 2020 at 8:54 AM
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August 10, 2020 at 11:27 PM
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Episode Twenty-Nine - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All 8
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July 20, 2020 at 4:34 PM
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August 2, 2020 at 8:06 PM
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Episode Twenty-Eight - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable 5
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July 16, 2020 at 10:27 AM
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July 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM
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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-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 Twenty-Five - The Swerve Part II - As the Basis of Human Agency 1
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June 24, 2020 at 2:59 PM
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July 3, 2020 at 6:55 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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Outline of Episodes - Serves As An Outline of the Poem As Well!
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June 17, 2020 at 3:17 PM
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June 17, 2020 at 3:17 PM
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Episode Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1
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June 12, 2020 at 4:18 PM
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June 24, 2020 at 8:29 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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Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5
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May 29, 2020 at 1:50 PM
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July 28, 2021 at 7:41 AM
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Episode Twenty - The Universe Is Infinite In Size 1
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May 23, 2020 at 3:08 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 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 Sixteen - The Atoms Are Un-Destroyable And Provide Continuity To All Nature 1
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April 26, 2020 at 6:09 AM
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April 27, 2020 at 10:32 AM
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Episode Fifteen - Recap Two 1
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April 4, 2020 at 9:22 AM
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April 26, 2020 at 4:39 PM
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Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6
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April 4, 2020 at 8:46 AM
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April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM
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Episode Thirteen - Properties, Qualities, And the Trojan War 8
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March 29, 2020 at 11:05 AM
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April 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM
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Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7
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March 22, 2020 at 6:46 PM
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July 24, 2021 at 3:34 AM
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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 Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5
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March 9, 2020 at 11:11 PM
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July 31, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7
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March 6, 2020 at 3:48 AM
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October 19, 2021 at 2:35 PM
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Episode Eight - Step Two: Nothing Goes To Nothing 5
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February 24, 2020 at 7:59 AM
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July 22, 2021 at 5:13 AM
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Episode Seven - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing 7
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February 19, 2020 at 5:23 PM
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July 22, 2021 at 7:22 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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Special Podcast Episode: Epicurus Against the Platonists / Aristotelians
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February 8, 2020 at 9:17 AM
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February 8, 2020 at 9:17 AM
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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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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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Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12
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January 26, 2020 at 8:53 AM
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July 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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Episode Three - So Great Is the Power of Religion To Inspire Evil Deeds! 18
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January 11, 2020 at 4:22 PM
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January 30, 2020 at 7:08 AM
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Episode Two - The Achievement of Epicurus 28
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January 11, 2020 at 12:04 PM
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October 3, 2020 at 10:20 PM
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Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15
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January 11, 2020 at 11:58 AM
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July 22, 2021 at 10:59 AM
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Promo And Highlights For The Lucretius Podcast 1
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October 26, 2019 at 4:50 PM
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April 3, 2020 at 8:47 AM
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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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An Epicurean Podcast 12
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July 5, 2019 at 2:49 PM
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July 6, 2019 at 9:17 AM
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