In honor of The 20th falling on Father's Day, here's an Epicurean-flavored "dad joke"....
Why can't you trust an atom?
Because they make up everything.
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In honor of The 20th falling on Father's Day, here's an Epicurean-flavored "dad joke"....
Why can't you trust an atom?
Because they make up everything.
Can't decide if this rises to the level of a "dad joke" or just as very clever pun on Lucretius's part, but just saw this online:
In De Rerum Natura, I.24, there's the line:
te sociam studeo scribendis versibus esse,
where Lucretius asks Venus to be a sociam in his writing of the poem.
A socius is a helper, an ally, etc.
What is the Greek translation of this Latin word?
επίκουρος!! (Epicurus!)
I refuse to think that's just a coincidence. Well played, Lucretius!
See also https://www.jstor.org/stable/270533