Blue is also a complementary color for the tones used in Epicurus's face: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…te_colors%22.?wprov=sfla1
And note, complementary not complimentary We're not saying, "Lookin' good, Epicurus!" just commenting on the colors.…

it's probably not a coincidence that it seems to me that the best "default" color for the forum here is blue too, although at times I do like green and other colors too.

These two with blue backgrounds have always been some of my favorite pictures of…

Blue as background color fits better to the color of the face than green.

I completely agree - I would not mess with the colors your mother chose.

If you don't mind please see if you can't reduce the file size so we can all see it and circulate it. I am thinking that we have the maximum upload size set to 1MB so that should be…

I added these observances to the Wikipedia entry for Eikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikas We'll see if it sticks, but I figured if the Society of Epicurus was represented, this forum should be as well.

Happy 20th to all!

Did you find his e-mail ? Thanks.

First, your mother painted it out of love so I would suggest not messing with the color.
Two, it actually seems to have a swirling atoms and void vibe to the blue. I like it.
Plus that color sets off nicely from the color used on Epicurus.
Nice work!

Great find, thank you!

Can't decide if this rises to the level of a "dad joke" or just as very clever pun on Lucretius's part, but just saw this online:

In De Rerum Natura, I.24, there's the line:
te sociam studeo scribendis versibus esse,
where Lucretius asks Venus to be a …

I am totally unfamiliar with that work, so thank you!

So this is originally French or something else translated into English?

And the text is prose, although from the looks of the page it's formatted to match the original -- it's not a poem or free verse?

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I believe that the man who took over epicurism.info is from the Netherlands. I had an email exchange with him a few months back, I'll check my records.

I’m from Belgium. But my English is’nt that good… so get in contact. I’ve worked on translations of Philodemus, Greenblatt… in Dutch. Also fom other interesting people, like Johan Braeckman ( who I think is a hidden epicurist - watch his…

Episode 75 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. In this Episode 75 we will read approximately Latin line 821-924 of Book Five. We will talk about the initial forms of life on earth, and how we can judge what was possible, and what was not…

Thank you Godfrey!

I believe that was a bust of Diogenes Laertius.

Upon review, we can definitely update any text that is unclear. It's meant as a teaching tool, so it may be in need of some refinements.

I saw Nate dropped by and liked this thread. I need to ask him this - I really like that allegory of the oasis graphic and kept it on the front page, this time with a link that directs the reader here for explanation: Nate's "Allegory of the Oasis"…

Thanks to AdamsAndVoid and to others who commented privately, I have now taken additional time to make many of the suggested changes and smooth out some of the rough edges that resulted from moving material around from many different locations.

Please let…

[This may be repetitive and should be deleted - just parking it here temporarily} Here is the advice of Thomas Jefferson on living an active Epicurean life:

"I take the liberty of observing that you are not a true disciple of our master Epicurus in…

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Thank you for the time to write that detailed post. Everything you wrote was helpful and I will especially tend to this suggestion!

Hi, I am a long-time lurker and have learned a lot from this forum and its participants. Things I have found particularly useful are (in no order):

• Welcoming and open discussion, with a few guardrails. I find the focus of the forum to be very helpful, and

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Check out the Deipnosophistae references to Epicurus:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/h…eus%3Atext%3A2013.01.0003
Be sure to click the "More" in the bar above the citation.
It also looks like they're referring to Epicurus's work Symposium.

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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/h…entry%3Ddeipnosofisth%2Fs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deipnosophistae?wprov=sfla1

Here's the Conclusion paragraph, which I don't think does justice to the depth of the work. it's written as if the Stoics were an and advance in a proper direction from the Epicurean viewpoint. As you would expect, I think that the reverse is true -…

OMG THIS is a memorable paragraph, and what a line! "A rose is a rose, that is, a whole, not a juxtaposition of properties."

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This is very close to what I was looking for and why I think Epicurus would object to a too-superficial labeling of being a "nominalist." What an on-point article!

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I think this section ought to begin to point us to once and for all tune in on the role of memory as an important part of Epicurean theory;

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I have to inject here that i find this article very clearly and attractively written (at least so far). This is a good reminder that we need to go back and check "Against Colotes" and perhaps add this article to a basic reading list, as it very directly…

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Yes that is the question. But I don't think it necessarily follows from the observation that nothing is eternal except matte and void to the statement that "there is nothing general except names" without drilling down very precisely…

Might be helpful:
https://philarchive.org/rec/BROEAS-9

Epicureans and Stoics on Universals

Ada Bronowski
In Riccardo Chiaradonna Gabriele Galluzzo (ed.), Universals in Ancient Philosophy. Edizioni della Normale. pp. 255-297 (2013)

Didn't he consider all sensations to be movements of atoms? And his descriptions of vision, dreams and knowledge of the gods are as images formed of groups of atoms. Both of these would seem to me to make him a nominalist.

As for knowledge, as I recall…

But hold your place on that thought because I think it has important implications. It's probably not entirely irrelevant to the main topic also.

Speaking of the main topic, any thoughts on the extent to which it is proper to label Epicurus a nominalist? …

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I'll behave myself

Right and I think that is exactly what was intended, without the "luck" connotation that is present in English.

Ha if you get us further off track we'll just split this part out

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I realize you didn't want to get into this, but it looks like eventum is an issue, consequence, result, effect. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/h…:entry=evenio&i=1#lexicon