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Complete Episode Guide
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Text And Reference Links - Lucretius Today Podcast 9
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December 3, 2019 at 10:27 AM
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Episode 294 - TD24 - Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence of Pain 6
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August 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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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 283 - Philosophy For The Millions 1
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May 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Episode 286 - TD16 - Confronting Pain With Reason Rather Than With "Virtue" 2
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June 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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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July 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Episode 287 - TD17 - The Fear of Pain Is Overrated, But Cicero and Epicurus Disagree As To Why. 3
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June 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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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 31 - Continuation of Episode 30, And the Polyaenus Example
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August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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Episode 289 - TD19 - "Epicureans Are Not Spocks!" 5
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July 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Episode 279 - TD10 - On "Dying Before One's Time" 2
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May 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Episode 293 - TD23 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling "Absence of Pain" A "Pleasure" 9
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July 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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August 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Episode 263 - "All Sensations Are True" 1
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January 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Episode 280 - TD11 - On Death And Daring To Live 3
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May 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Episode 272 - TD02 - Is Death An Evil? 4
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March 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Episode 266 - The Epicurean Paradigm Shift 3
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February 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Episode 290 - TD20 - TipToeing Around All Disturbance Is Not Living 12
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July 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Episode 274 - TD04 - Is The Soul Held Down By The Body, And Does Death Allow The Soul To Ascend To A Better Place? 2
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March 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Episode 278 - TD08 - Two Opposite Views On When We Might Be Better Off Dead 4
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April 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Episode 264 - "Bread and Water!!?? Debunking The Myth of Epicurean Asceticism" 4
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January 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Episode 288 - TD18 - Tusculan Disputations Part 3 - "Will The Wise Man Feel Grief Or Other Strong Emotions?" 11
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June 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Episode 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30 2
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Episode 276 - TD06 - Is Memory Evidence For The Divinity Of The Soul? 3
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April 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Episode 209 - Special Episode - Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy 1
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January 1, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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January 13, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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Upcoming Series: The Lucretius Today Podcast Reviews And Responds To Books One And Two of Cicero's On Ends
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August 25, 2023 at 8:11 AM
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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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Episode 164 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 18 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 05 1
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Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 2
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May 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 11
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