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.
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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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November 23, 2023 at 10:13 AM
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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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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Six - Letter to Pythocles 01 - Introduction - On The Basic Approach of Epicurean Philosophy 9
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June 10, 2022 at 8:57 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Five - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Completion of the Letter 2
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June 4, 2022 at 5:52 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Four - Letter to Herodotus 13 - Life On Other Worlds, Development of Language, And the Regular Motion of the Stars 5
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May 28, 2022 at 1:16 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Three: Letter to Herodotus 12 - Events and Time 6
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May 20, 2022 at 5:20 PM
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May 28, 2022 at 12:26 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Two - Letter to Herodotus 10 - What it Means to "Exist" - Properties and Qualities 7
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May 14, 2022 at 10:15 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-One - Letter to Herodotus 11 - Atoms, The Soul, And Those Who Are Well Disposed Towards Us 4
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May 8, 2022 at 8:34 AM
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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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June 22, 2022 at 5:59 AM
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Episode One Hundred Nineteen - Letter to Herodotus 08 - More On Perception Through The Atoms 18
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April 21, 2022 at 5:18 PM
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June 22, 2022 at 7:18 AM
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Episode One Hundred Eighteen - Letter to Herodotus 07 - "Images" - There's More To Them Than Meets The Eye 25
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April 9, 2022 at 3:23 PM
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August 10, 2022 at 9:00 AM
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Episode One Hundred Seventeen - Letter to Herodotus 06 - The Doctrine of Infinity of Worlds And Its Implications 15
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April 7, 2022 at 9:57 PM
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April 11, 2022 at 9:14 PM
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Episode One Hundred Sixteen - Letter to Herodotus 05 - More Fundamental Physics 4
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April 3, 2022 at 5:12 AM
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April 9, 2022 at 12:00 PM
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Episode One Hundred Fifteen - Letter to Herodotus 04 - Atoms, Void, and Basic Epistemology Issues 15
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March 26, 2022 at 8:13 AM
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April 1, 2022 at 7:40 AM
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Episode One Hundred Fourteen - Letter to Herodotus 03 - The Starting Point of Physics 5
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March 18, 2022 at 6:20 AM
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March 26, 2022 at 9:56 PM
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Episode One Hundred Thirteen - Letter to Herodotus 02 - Principles of Thinking 4
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March 13, 2022 at 8:29 AM
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March 18, 2022 at 3:38 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twelve - Epicurus' Letter to Herodotus 01 (Introduction) 7
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March 4, 2022 at 6:40 PM
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January 20, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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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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Episode One Hundred Ten - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part 2) 8
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February 19, 2022 at 2:51 PM
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February 25, 2022 at 3:51 PM
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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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Episode One Hundred Eight - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science 42
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February 4, 2022 at 8:31 PM
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February 13, 2022 at 6:16 AM
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Episode One Hundred Seven - The Epicurean Emphasis on Natural Science 8
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January 28, 2022 at 3:32 PM
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February 3, 2022 at 4:10 PM
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Episode One Hundred Six - The Epicurean Attitude Toward Fate / Fortune and the Role of Reason 22
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January 20, 2022 at 6:45 AM
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January 29, 2022 at 8:55 PM
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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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January 25, 2022 at 2:26 PM
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Episode One Hundred Four - More Torquatus and a Question: Was The Ancient Epicurean Movement A Cult? 45
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January 7, 2022 at 8:18 AM
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January 17, 2022 at 4:22 PM
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Episode One Hundred Three - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Three 9
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December 31, 2021 at 11:02 PM
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January 8, 2022 at 7:42 PM
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Episode One Hundred Two - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Two 30
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December 25, 2021 at 9:42 AM
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January 9, 2022 at 7:07 PM
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Episode One Hundred One - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part One 7
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December 17, 2021 at 6:09 PM
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December 23, 2021 at 5:12 PM
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Episode One Hundred - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place 7
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December 10, 2021 at 10:43 AM
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December 18, 2021 at 8:36 AM
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Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22
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December 2, 2021 at 4:05 PM
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December 11, 2021 at 6:08 PM
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Episode Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15
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November 26, 2021 at 1:51 PM
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December 16, 2021 at 11:50 AM
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Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16
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November 15, 2021 at 7:39 PM
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December 10, 2021 at 3:17 PM
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Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14
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November 10, 2021 at 10:57 AM
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November 20, 2021 at 10:02 PM
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Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20
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November 5, 2021 at 9:35 PM
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November 13, 2021 at 6:29 PM
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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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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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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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October 18, 2021 at 9:57 AM
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6
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August 28, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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September 5, 2021 at 5:11 PM
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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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August 30, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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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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August 24, 2021 at 2:21 PM
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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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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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Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5
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July 31, 2021 at 9:35 AM
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August 6, 2021 at 11:02 PM
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Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23
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July 22, 2021 at 9:15 PM
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August 2, 2021 at 10:53 AM
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Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3
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July 17, 2021 at 6:28 AM
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July 18, 2021 at 10:44 PM
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Episode Seventy-Nine - The Cause of the Arising of Belief In Gods 1
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July 9, 2021 at 4:47 PM
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July 16, 2021 at 7:20 AM
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