The Oldest Regularly-Occurring Epicurean Seminar / Convention - Athens, Greece

This is a thread for links to the annual Athens Seminar. I need to add here the upcoming dates as they occur. If I remember correctly this usually occurs around February of each year, in proximity to Epicurus' birthday.

Videos from the 2021 Session are now available here: https://epicuro.org/infinito-il-pi…gli-interventi/

These just came in from Michele and I have not had a chance to look at them except to note that Michele tells me they are all in Italian.

If someone sees something we need to feature please post about it!

This graphic is featured on the front page of EpicureanFriends because it reflects the core spirit of Epicurean philosophy. The graphic was first featured at the 2021 Senegalia Epicurean Festival. The graphic features Michele (with glasses) ready to break the chains of religion with Epicurus' leadership! The artist is David Baldone, who portrays himself on the left. In the middle is of course Epicurus, then Fabrizio Chiappetti, a friend of Davide and Michele Pinto, and then Michele Pinto on the right.

Here is the video of Christos Yapijakis, leader of the Athens Epicureans, proving that he is fluent in at least three languages (including Italian, and we already know he is fluent in Greek and English). That's very impressive in itself and that's three more languages than I am fluent in! If anyone has a clue as to what he is saying please comment below.

michelepinto looks like you had some T-Shirts! What does this say?

Great - thank you!!!!

Book three for Don and all Latin scholars!

TITI LVCRETI CARI DE RERVM NATVRA LIBER TERTIVS

E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen

qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda vitae,

te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc

ficta pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,

non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amorem

quod te imitari aveo; quid enim contendat hirundo

cycnis, aut quid nam tremulis facere artubus haedi

consimile in cursu possint et fortis equi vis?

tu, pater, es rerum inventor, tu patria nobis

suppeditas praecepta, tuisque ex, inclute, chartis,

floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant,

omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta,

aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.

nam simul ac ratio tua coepit vociferari

naturam rerum divina mente coorta

diffugiunt animi terrores, moenia mundi

discedunt. totum video per inane geri res.

apparet divum numen sedesque quietae,

quas neque concutiunt venti nec nubila nimbis

aspergunt neque nix acri concreta pruina

cana cadens violat semper[que] innubilus aether

integit et large diffuso lumine ridet: