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    2. Episode 189 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 41 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 04 12

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      • August 20, 2023 at 5:12 PM
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    2. Episode 219 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 26 -Cicero Continues His Attack On Epicurus' Position On Pain 13

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      • March 10, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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    2. Episode One Hundred Forty - The Letter to Menoeceus 07 - Completion of the Letter 18

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    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Six - Letter to Pythocles 01 - Introduction - On The Basic Approach of Epicurean Philosophy 9

      • Cassius
      • June 15, 2022 at 9:06 AM
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      June 15, 2022 at 9:06 AM

    2. 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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    2. Episode 222 - Revisiting the Relationship Between Happiness and Pleasure 10

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      • April 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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    4. Bryan

      April 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM

    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 One Hundred Five - More From Torquatus On The Key Doctrines of Epicurus 10

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      • January 14, 2022 at 10:19 AM
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    4. Scott

      January 25, 2022 at 2:26 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Eleven - Torquatus Summarizes The Significance of the Epicurus 12

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      • February 22, 2022 at 10:06 PM
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      • March 7, 2022 at 11:21 PM
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      March 7, 2022 at 11:21 PM

    2. Episode Twenty-Nine - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All 8

      • Cassius
      • August 2, 2020 at 8:06 PM
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      August 2, 2020 at 8:06 PM

    2. Episode 242 - Cicero's OTNOTG 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic? 11

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      • August 17, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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      August 21, 2024 at 2:44 PM

    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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    4. Paquin

      July 24, 2021 at 3:34 AM

    2. Episode Sixty-Six - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!) 7

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      • April 14, 2021 at 10:47 AM
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      April 14, 2021 at 10:47 AM

    2. 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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      • December 27, 2022 at 4:04 PM
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    4. Don

      December 27, 2022 at 4:04 PM

    2. Episode 201 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 09 15

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      • November 11, 2023 at 1:46 PM
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      • November 22, 2023 at 1:08 PM
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    4. Joshua

      November 22, 2023 at 1:08 PM

    2. Episode 226 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Epicurean Section 01 - Introduction 16

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      • April 21, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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      June 21, 2024 at 5:40 PM

    2. Episode 194 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 04 16

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      • September 30, 2023 at 11:51 AM
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      October 3, 2023 at 1:08 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Eight - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 04 - True Opinions And False Opinions About Epicurus 13

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      • November 7, 2022 at 7:04 AM
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    2. Episode 230 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 05 - Velleius Attacks Misplaced Ideas of Divinity 18

      • Cassius
      • May 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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      May 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM

    2. Episode 270 - Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time 48

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      • February 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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    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. 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 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

    2. Episode One Hundred Nine - The Epicurean View of Friendship 11

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      • February 11, 2022 at 7:45 PM
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      • February 18, 2022 at 7:45 PM
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    2. Episode 254 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion As Much As Any Outright Atheist? - Cicero's OTNOTG 29 13

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      • November 9, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty - Letter to Herodotus 09 - Epicurus' Rejection of Infinite Divisibility 10

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      • April 30, 2022 at 9:46 AM
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    2. Episode Thirty-One - Continuation of Episode Thirty / Polyaenus 9

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      • August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Seven - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 03 - True Opinions And False Opinions About Epicurus 15

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      • November 3, 2022 at 9:24 AM
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    2. Episode 188 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 40 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 03 20

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    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Seven - Letter to Pythocles 02 - The Formation of "Worlds" 16

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      • July 2, 2022 at 3:37 PM
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    2. Philodemus' "On Anger" - General - Texts and Resources 20

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    2. Mocking Epithets 3

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    2. Best Lucretius translation? 12

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    2. The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 4

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    2. New Blog Post From Elli - " Fanaticism and the Danger of Dogmatism in Political and Religious Thought: An Epicurean Reading"

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