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  1. Norman DeWitt - "Epicurus - All Sensations Are True"

    • Cassius
    • December 29, 2022 at 12:23 PM
    DeWitt's interpretation of the "all sensations are true" controversy.
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  2. Epicurus’s Birthday: The 7th, 10th, or 20th of Gamelion - Mystery Solved

    • Don
    • December 26, 2022 at 12:07 AM
    This paper outlines the reasons to accept that Epicurus was born on the 20th day of the month of Gamelion.
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  3. Norman DeWitt - Philosophy For The Millions (1947)

    • Cassius
    • July 11, 2022 at 12:04 PM
    Norman DeWitt's 1947 article summarizing he significance of Epicurus and his philosophy.
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  4. Mathew Wenham - On Cicero's Interpretation of Katastematic Pleasure In Epicurus

    • Cassius
    • June 30, 2022 at 8:34 AM
    The standard interpretation of the concept of katastematic pleasure in Epicurus .... leads to fundamental contradictions in his theory. I claim that it is not Epicurus, but the standard interpretation that generates these errors...
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  5. Epicurean Mission and Membership From The Early Garden To The Late Roman Republic

    • Cassius
    • May 8, 2022 at 6:15 AM
    A very good article covering the "missionary" aspect of the Epicurean movement.
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  6. David Sedley - The Ethics of Brutus and Cassius

    • Cassius
    • April 12, 2022 at 5:12 PM
    Discussion of the philosophical underpinnings (Epicurean, Platonist, and Stoic) of the Assassination of Julius Caesar
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  7. Significance of Worship And Prayer Among the Epicureans - Hadzits

    • Cassius
    • March 3, 2022 at 4:31 PM
    Significance of Worship And Prayer Among the Epicureans - Hadzits
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  8. Thus Purred Catius' Cat

    • Cassius
    • March 2, 2022 at 6:21 AM
    2016 Cassius Amicus poem for children.
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  9. Catius' Cat And The Forty Mice

    • Cassius
    • March 2, 2022 at 6:15 AM
    2016 Children's Poem By Cassius Amicus
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  10. Lion of Epicurus - Lucian And His Epicurean Passages

    • Cassius
    • March 2, 2022 at 6:10 AM
    Epub Collection of Works By Lucian Concerning Epicurus
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  11. CIcero's Presentation of Epicurean Ethics - By Mary Porter Packer (1938)

    • Cassius
    • February 16, 2022 at 1:27 PM
    A study based primarily on De Finibus I and II
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  12. Epicurus: The Summum Bonum Fallacy

    • Cassius
    • February 13, 2022 at 4:00 PM
    The aim of this article is to show how the lack of a definite article in Latin obliterated the doctrine of Epicurus that life itself and not pleasure is the greatest good.
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  13. Joshua's Reading of The Torquatus Narrative of Epicurean Ethics - From Cicero's "On Ends"

    • Cassius
    • January 27, 2022 at 9:02 AM
    One of the best summaries of Epicurean Philosophy available anywhere.
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  14. Epicurus's Letter to Menoikeus - A New Translation with Commentary

    • Don
    • July 19, 2023 at 11:25 PM
    An in-depth translation and commentary of Epicurus's Letter to Menoikeus.
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  15. Epicurean Conturbernium - Essay By Norman DeWitt

    • Cassius
    • December 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
    VI.-Epicurean Contubernium NORMAN W. DEWITT - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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  16. Tyndal - Address at Belfast

    • Cassius
    • November 1, 2021 at 8:05 PM
    TXT version of file for cleanup for use in text-to-speech engines
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  17. KURIAI DOXAI, a Compilation of Translations by Nathan H. Bartman (2021)

    • Eikadistes
    • May 3, 2024 at 11:14 PM
    This compilation contains 150 years worth of English translations of the "Key Doctrines" of Epicurus.
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  18. Epicurean Philosophers by Nathan H. Bartman

    • Eikadistes
    • March 6, 2022 at 6:04 PM
    A definitive list of our Epicurean friends throughout history. (For the latest updates: https://twentiers.com/2024/05/26/timeline/)
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  19. Morel - "Method and Evidence: On Epicurean Preconception"

    • Cassius
    • June 25, 2021 at 3:52 PM
    Article on Epicurean preconceptions
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  20. How Became Known To Us The Portrait of The Athenian Philosopher Epicurus - Takis Pangiotopoulos -

    • Cassius
    • May 26, 2021 at 8:29 AM
    Takis' summary of the history of the identification of Epicurus through artwork
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