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Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7
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August 14, 2021 at 9:21 AM
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Episode Seventy-Two - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun 7
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Episode Sixty-Six - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!) 7
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Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7
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Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7
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Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7
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Episode Seven - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing 7
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Episode 294 - TD24 - Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence of Pain 6
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Episode 292 - TD22 - Is Virtue Or Pleasure The Key To Overcoming Grief? 6
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July 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Episode 291 - TD21 - Epicurus Pushes Back Against "Expect The Worst And You'll Never Be Disappointed" 6
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Episode 281 - TD12 - Is Pain The Greatest Evil - Or Even An Evil At All? 6
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May 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Episode 252 - Why Reverence The Epicurean Gods? 6
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October 26, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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Episode 221 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 28 -Cicero Alleges Pleasures Of The Mind Cannot Offset Pain In Epicurean Philosophy 6
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March 30, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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Episode 220 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 27 -Cicero Attacks Epicurus' End-Of-Life Decisionmaking 6
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March 22, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Episode 212 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 19 - Can "Pleasure" Be Defended In The Public Square? 6
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January 27, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Episode 177 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 29 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 06 6
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June 1, 2023 at 9:36 AM
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Episode 172 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 25 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 01 6
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April 28, 2023 at 8:43 PM
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Episode 157 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin - Part Two 6
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January 19, 2023 at 10:13 AM
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Episode 153 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 09 - The New Education 02 6
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December 16, 2022 at 4:38 PM
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Lucretius Today Podcast Interview Questions (Interviews Project Starting 2023) 6
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December 16, 2022 at 8:52 AM
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Episode 152 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 08 - The New Education 01 6
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December 6, 2022 at 9:26 AM
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Three - Letter to Pythocles 07 - Conclusion Of The Letter 6
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July 30, 2022 at 6:59 AM
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Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6
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September 29, 2021 at 8:59 PM
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Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6
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Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6
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August 21, 2021 at 5:20 PM
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Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6
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September 26, 2020 at 10:23 AM
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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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Episode 289 - TD19 - "Epicureans Are Not Spocks!" 5
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Episode 250 - Cicero's OTNOTG 25: The Relationship of "Images" To All Human Thought - Not Just To "The Gods" 5
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Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity 5
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June 25, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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Beyond Stoicism (2025) 16
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August 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM - Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 11
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July 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM - Uncategorized Discussion (General)
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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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