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    2. Horace - Buying Pleasure With Pain is Harmful (????) 8

      • Cassius
      • August 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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    4. Kalosyni

      August 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM

    2. "Habeo non Habeor" (Associated With Aristippus?)

      • Cassius
      • August 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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    2. Latest Lucretius Today Podcast - Episode 295 - Plutarch's Absurd Interpretation of Epicurean Absence of Pain - Make Sure It's Not Yours!

      • Cassius
      • August 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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    2. Welcome Ernesto-Sun! 4

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      • November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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    4. ernesto.sun

      November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM

    2. Sunday Zoom - August 17, 2025 - 12:30 PM ET - Topic: "All Sensations Are True" 41

      • Cassius
      • September 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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    4. Bryan

      September 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM

    2. Article: "Epicurean Induction and Atomism In Mathematics" - Michael Aristidou (2023)

      • Cassius
      • August 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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    2. Summary of Plutarch's Argument

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      • August 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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    2. Episode 295 - Plutarch's Absurd Interpretation of Epicurean Absence of Pain 66

      • Cassius
      • September 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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    4. Cassius

      September 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM

    2. Sunday Zoom - August 10, 2025 - 12:30 PM ET - Topic: "He Who Says Nothing Can Be Known Knows Nothing" 2

      • Cassius
      • August 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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    4. Patrikios

      August 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM

    2. Primary Epicurean References Relevant To Life Elsewhere In The Universe 3

      • Cassius
      • August 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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    4. Cassius

      August 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM

    2. Epicurean Isonomy In The Context Of Statements By Balbus As To Gradations In Life In Book 2 of "On the Nature of the Gods" 31

      • Cassius
      • August 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM

    2. Welcome Hubblefanboy! 4

      • Cassius
      • August 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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    4. Martin

      August 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM

    2. Episode 294 - TD24 - Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence of Pain 8

      • Cassius
      • August 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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    4. Cassius

      August 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM

    2. Welcome ZarathustrasGarden! 6

      • Cassius
      • August 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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    4. Rolf

      August 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM

    2. Latest Lucretius Today Podcast - Episode 293 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling "Absence of Pain" a Pleasure

      • Cassius
      • August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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    2. Welcome Kappa!

      • Cassius
      • August 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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    2. Cicero's Comparison of the Life of Lucius Balbus (Pleasure) Against That Of Marcus Regulus (VIrtue)

      • Cassius
      • August 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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    2. Welcome ProfV! 1

      • Cassius
      • August 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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    4. Cassius

      August 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM

    2. Sunday Zoom - August 3, 2025 - 12:30 PM ET - Topic: "There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity" 5

      • Cassius
      • August 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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    4. Bryan

      August 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM

    2. Added: Web Version of Boris Nikolsky's "Epicurus On Pleasure" Examining the Kinetic / Katastematic Question

      • Cassius
      • July 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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    2. Episode 293 - TD23 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling "Absence of Pain" A "Pleasure" 9

      • Cassius
      • August 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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    4. Cassius

      August 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM

    2. Plutarch's Major Works Against Epicurus 4

      • Cassius
      • July 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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    4. Cassius

      July 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM

    2. Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 12

      • Cassius
      • November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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    4. Patrikios

      November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM

    2. Sunday Zoom - July 27, 2025 - 12:30 PM ET - Topic: "Death Is Nothing To Us" 1

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      • July 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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    4. Don

      July 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM

    2. Sunday Zoom - July 20, 2025 - 12:30 PM ET - Topic: Twentieth Meeting

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      • July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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    2. Note On Upcoming Episodes Of Lucretius Today Podcast

      • Cassius
      • July 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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    2. Episode 292 - TD22 - Is Virtue Or Pleasure The Key To Overcoming Grief? 6

      • Cassius
      • August 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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    4. Patrikios

      August 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM

    2. Lucretius Today Podast #291 Is Now Available - Epicurus Pushes Back Against "Expect The Worst And You'll Never Be Disappointed."

      • Cassius
      • July 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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    2. Cicero Fighting It Out "Horse And Foot" With Epicurus (Cicero's References to Epicurus in "On Duties" ) 6

      • Cassius
      • July 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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    4. Cassius

      July 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM

    2. Welcome Sam_Qwerty! 16

      • Cassius
      • July 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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    4. Sam_Qwerty

      July 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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