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
- Cassius
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 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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November 16, 2022 at 10:53 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty Two - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 2) "Reality" 7
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September 28, 2022 at 5:41 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty - The Letter to Menoeceus 07 - Completion of the Letter 7
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September 11, 2022 at 1:23 PM
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September 21, 2022 at 2:37 AM
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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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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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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-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-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-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-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-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-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-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem 1
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October 17, 2021 at 8:57 AM
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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-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 - 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 Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4
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May 14, 2020 at 8:54 PM
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July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM
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Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7
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March 6, 2020 at 3:48 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 Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12
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January 26, 2020 at 8:53 AM
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July 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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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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November 7, 2020 at 9:55 AM
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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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November 28, 2020 at 7:32 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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December 9, 2020 at 6:24 AM
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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-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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December 11, 2020 at 10:09 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-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 - 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 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 Fifty-Two - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections 1
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January 2, 2021 at 11:59 AM
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Episode Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1
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January 9, 2021 at 8:48 AM
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Episode Fifty-Six - More On The Operation of the Senses - Hearing And Taste 1
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January 25, 2021 at 4:58 PM
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Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2
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February 5, 2021 at 6:40 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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January 6, 2021 at 2:17 PM
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Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2
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February 19, 2021 at 10:26 AM
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Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3
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January 16, 2021 at 8:01 AM
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Episode Fifty-Five - Reason Is Dependent On The Senses (Part 2) 56
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January 23, 2021 at 10:38 AM
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Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 2
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February 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM
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February 19, 2021 at 8:40 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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December 27, 2020 at 12:38 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 Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4
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March 17, 2020 at 6:42 AM
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March 28, 2020 at 2:20 PM
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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-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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