Religion / Epicurean Gods

SUNDAY WEEKLY ZOOM - 12:30 PM EDT - Book Review: De Rerum Natura by Lucretius -- Read the post for our December 7, 2025 meeting -- or find out how to attend.

 

File List

The EpicureanFriends Files section is where our Level 3 and above participants store longer documents created offsite which are of special interest to the study of Epicurus. You can use the "Categories" box on the right to find specific sections of the library.

  1. All Particles Go to Heaven: The Form and Formation of the (Epicurean) Gods

    • Eikadistes
    • November 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
    New "[P]rior to the widespread proliferation of supernatural soap operas, the first peoples contemplated a raw form of divinity, unsullied by mythic adulterants."
    • Thanks 2
    • 20 Downloads

  2. 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
    • 360 Downloads

  3. Hadzits - Significance of Worship And Prayer Among the Epicureans

    • Cassius
    • March 3, 2020 at 5:06 PM
    Article on the Epicurean attitude toward prayer and worship - says that they were undoubtedly sincere.
    • Love 2
    • 359 Downloads

  4. DeWitt on Isonomy

    • Cassius
    • January 22, 2018 at 1:51 PM
    DeWitt on Isonomy, one of the Epicurean arguments for divinity
    • 470 Downloads

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