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.
Episode 219 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. In this episode we continue to address Cicero's attacks on Epicurus' views on pain.
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Episode 200 - Lucretius Today 200th Episode - Retrospective, Recap, and Looking To The Future 17
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October 30, 2023 at 3:04 AM
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November 16, 2023 at 6:20 PM
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Episode 202 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 10 - The Animality Argument 23
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November 18, 2023 at 5:16 AM
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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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June 17, 2022 at 6:19 AM
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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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August 25, 2023 at 8:11 AM
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Episodes Of Lucretius Today Available At Archive.org 3
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September 19, 2022 at 4:12 PM
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September 9, 2023 at 2:11 PM
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 Twenty - The Universe Is Infinite In Size 1
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May 23, 2020 at 3:08 PM
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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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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-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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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 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-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-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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Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1
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September 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM
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Episode Thirty-Seven: End of Book Two - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die 1
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September 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM
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September 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM
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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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Episode Thirty-Nine - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot 11
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September 29, 2020 at 6:08 PM
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Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7
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October 8, 2020 at 7:27 PM
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Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2
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October 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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Episode Forty-Two - The Mind works through the senses; it is a relatively small part of the body; the Mind has more power than the "spirit," but both mind and spirit are mortal 1
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October 24, 2020 at 2:48 PM
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Episode Forty-Three - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body 1
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October 30, 2020 at 10:12 PM
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Episode Forty-Four - The Mind Cannot Continue to Exist Separately From The Body After Death 1
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November 7, 2020 at 11:02 AM
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Episode Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1
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November 13, 2020 at 8:05 PM
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Episode Forty-Six - Conclusion of the Argument That the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death 1
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November 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM
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Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2
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November 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM
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Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1
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December 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM
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Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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December 11, 2020 at 10:09 PM
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Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2
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December 18, 2020 at 8:20 PM
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Episode Fifty-One - The Workings of Images 17
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December 24, 2020 at 2:09 PM
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Episode Fifty-Two - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections 1
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January 2, 2021 at 11:59 AM
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