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Where Was The Garden of Epicurus In Athens?

A transcription of Don's research paper tracing the ancient textual and archaeological evidence for the location of Epicurus's Garden and house in Athens -- arguing it stood along one of the city's busiest roads, not hidden away.
Don
August 24, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Interview With Dr. David Glidden: "Epicurean Prolepsis"

In Episode 166 the Lucretius Today podcasters interviewed Dr. David Glidden, professor emeritus from the University of California - Riverside, about his articles "Epicurean Prolepsis" and "Epicurean Thinking.
Cassius
January 11, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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Ten Key Steps In Epicurean Reasoning

Here is a listing of ten key steps of Epicurean reasoning. There is nothing magic about this grouping but it's an effort to combine a manageable set of key points with important citations supporting them: \n The best lif
Cassius
November 28, 2022 at 8:10 AM
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Epicurus Answers Four of the Great Questions of Human Life

Several conversations lately have led me to want to produce a new article on what I would contend are some of the most important take-aways from the teachings of Epicurus. These are the points with which I would start if
Cassius
April 20, 2021 at 10:58 AM
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Classical Epicurean Philosophy: Not Neo-Epicurean, But Epicurean

Read about the Core Aspects of the Epicurean Philosophy emphasized here at EpicureanFriends by clicking the link: Core Aspects of the Epicurean Philosophy . For a "compare and contrast version of the same viewpoint, the
Cassius
July 26, 2019 at 11:23 AM
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We And The Stoics Today - Or: “To Those from the Stoa”

WE AND THE STOICS TODAY, or “To Those from the Stoa” \n by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos, member of the Epicurean Garden in Thessaloniki 27.11.2015 A proposition about Stoicism on an Epicurean website causes at least reasonabl
Elli
April 2, 2019 at 5:54 PM
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A Five Star Presentation of Epicurean Philosophy

\n \n A Five Star Presentation of Epicurean Philosophy \n I think it's important that we begin to present Epicurean philosophy through podcasts and other audio-video means, so as a test I put together this basic Youtube
Cassius
October 29, 2018 at 7:40 PM
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Major Controversies In Understanding Epicurean Philosophy

\n \n Understanding Epicurus takes considerable effort, but not because the doctrines are difficult - they're not! The problem is that Epicurean philosophy has been heavily criticized for more than two thousand years, an
Cassius
January 27, 2018 at 1:58 PM
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Epicurean Basics

Epicurean Basics ( Discussion of the Article At the Epicurus Facebook Page ) Epicurean philosophy is best known for its advocacy of “Pleasure” as the guide to life. Epicurus taught that Nature endows humans (and all anim
Cassius
June 22, 2017 at 9:19 AM
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Finding Things At EpicureanFriends.com

Here is a list of suggested search strategies:

  • Website Overview page - clickable links arrranged by cards.
  • Forum Main Page - list of forums and subforums arranged by topic. Threads are posted according to relevant topics. The "Uncategorized subforum" contains threads which do not fall into any existing topic (also contains older "unfiled" threads which will soon be moved).
  • Search Tool - icon is located on the top right of every page. Note that the search box asks you what section of the forum you'd like to search. If you don't know, select "Everywhere."
  • Search By Key Tags - curated to show frequently-searched topics.
  • Full Tag List - an alphabetical list of all tags.