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

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      • October 18, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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      • October 30, 2021 at 3:38 PM
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      October 30, 2021 at 3:38 PM

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

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      • October 4, 2021 at 8:40 PM
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      • October 22, 2021 at 2:00 PM
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      October 22, 2021 at 2:00 PM

    2. Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7

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      • October 19, 2021 at 2:35 PM
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    2. Episode Ninety-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem 1

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      • October 17, 2021 at 8:57 AM
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    2. 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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      • October 10, 2021 at 6:16 AM
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      October 10, 2021 at 6:16 AM

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

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      • September 23, 2021 at 9:54 AM
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      • September 28, 2021 at 7:50 PM
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      September 28, 2021 at 7:50 PM

    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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      September 25, 2021 at 11:05 AM

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

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      • September 3, 2021 at 10:33 AM
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      • September 6, 2021 at 7:57 PM
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      September 6, 2021 at 7:57 PM

    2. Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6

      • Cassius
      • August 28, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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      • September 5, 2021 at 5:11 PM
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    4. Don

      September 5, 2021 at 5:11 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6

      • Cassius
      • September 26, 2020 at 10:23 AM
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      • September 1, 2021 at 4:34 AM
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      September 1, 2021 at 4:34 AM

    2. 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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      • August 30, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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    4. Don

      August 30, 2021 at 7:52 AM

    2. 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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      • August 24, 2021 at 2:21 PM
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      August 24, 2021 at 2:21 PM

    2. 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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      August 14, 2021 at 9:13 AM

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

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      • August 6, 2021 at 11:02 PM
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    4. Don

      August 6, 2021 at 11:02 PM

    2. Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10

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      • August 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM
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      • August 4, 2021 at 9:34 AM
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      August 4, 2021 at 9:34 AM

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

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      August 2, 2021 at 10:53 AM

    2. 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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      July 31, 2021 at 9:13 AM

    2. Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5

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      • July 28, 2021 at 7:41 AM
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      July 28, 2021 at 7:41 AM

    2. 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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      • July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM
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      July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM

    2. 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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      July 24, 2021 at 3:34 AM

    2. 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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      July 22, 2021 at 10:59 AM

    2. 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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      July 22, 2021 at 7:22 AM

    2. 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

    2. 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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    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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      • July 10, 2021 at 5:59 PM
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    2. Episode Seventy-Seven - Formation of Language and Early Societies 1

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      • July 2, 2021 at 3:44 PM
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