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Cassius
March 18, 2026 at 9:33 PM Replied to the thread Welcome ThomasJ54!.PostWelcome ThomasJ54! That's a path with which many of us can identify! Glad to have you and let us know if we can be of help in your study. -
Cassius
March 18, 2026 at 9:32 PM Replied to the thread Welcome ThomasJ54!.Postthomasj54 tells us:
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I'm a 72 year old retired IT professional in Essex England. I've have an intermittent interest in philosophy and religion most of my life. Raised a Catholic I rejected this in my late teens and became agnostic/atheist. I… -
Cassius
March 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM Posted the thread Welcome ThomasJ54!.ThreadWelcome thomasj54
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Eikadistes
March 18, 2026 at 12:28 PM Replied to the thread Seikilos Poem - Discussion.PostAnd not like anyone asked but I'd be remiss if I didn't take a swing at my own translation:While you live, glow!
Suffer you never a sorrow!
For fleeting it is to withstand
the ending that time must demand. -
Eikadistes
March 18, 2026 at 12:27 PM Replied to the thread Seikilos Poem - Discussion.PostAnd for the sake of a visual aid, here's this.
Usually, scholars rearrange the original lines to reinforce the rhyme scheme to students (AABB). Rarely is the lyrical poem analyzed according to the line breaks the poet originally chose.
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Eikadistes
March 18, 2026 at 12:22 PM Replied to the thread Seikilos Poem - Discussion.PostJust to re-iterate what I posted with the picture, I'm re-posting the text.
In a nutshell, my thesis is that most scholars (at least whom I've read in English) have overlooked two mid-word line breaks in the original inscription that I believe were… -
Eikadistes
March 18, 2026 at 12:20 PM Replied to the thread Seikilos Poem - Discussion.Post[…]
That's a great stanza, and awesomely similar to the epitaph, very cool!
You know, I first came across it when I took a Humanities class 20 years ago, and the Greek transcription became my first tattoo a few years later, many years before I took up a… -
Cassius
PostMarch 18, 2026 at 9:05 AM […]
That's his On Signs / On Methods of Inference which we will review on the podcast in the future. Anyone who tries to get started before then and can post commentary will be appreciated. -
TauPhi
March 17, 2026 at 9:38 PM Replied to the thread Seikilos Poem - Discussion.PostThis is cool. I didn't know about its existence. Thank you Eikadistes . It reminds me of something I wrote to myself some time ago. I rarely share my personal scribblings with anyone but I'll make an exception on this occasion:
Radiate, pulsate and be… -
Kalosyni
March 17, 2026 at 5:49 PM Commented on the image Seikilos Poem.Comment (Image/Video)The song is featured in the opening of this play, with the last line subtitle translation as "and Time demands his due"
youtu.be/Zw9QoJXIiXg -
Cassius
March 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM Replied to a comment by Eikadistes on the image Seikilos Poem.Reply (Image/Video)Very interesting Eikadistes and thank you.
I want to be sure that your comments and future discussion are findable so I am setting up this forum thread, which is easier to find using the search function:
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Cassius
March 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM Replied to the thread Seikilos Poem - Discussion.Post -
Cassius
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Eikadistes
March 17, 2026 at 2:03 PM Commented on the image Seikilos Poem.Comment (Image/Video)I just found something really interesting that I wanted to bring up! I include the following in footnotes here. In a nutshell, I find that it is reasonable to suppose that (1) Seikílos was a seasoned composer, and (2) He was a proper Epicurean.
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Cassius
March 17, 2026 at 1:46 PM Replied to the thread Circumstantial (Indirect) and Direct Evidence / Dogmatism vs Skepticism.PostRight - the burden of proof issue is certainly relevant to standards of proof so let's discuss that too.
In these philosophic questions does the burden of proof rest on the person asserting something that is contrary to observable evidence? Or on the… -
DaveT
March 17, 2026 at 12:36 PM Replied to the thread Circumstantial (Indirect) and Direct Evidence / Dogmatism vs Skepticism.Post[…]
Perhaps you might also have discussed that in Civil Law cases where “probably” is acceptable.
In criminal cases, people go to prison. Generally, in civil cases which are far more common, you don't go to prison.
And I am suggesting this clarification… -
Kalosyni
PostMarch 17, 2026 at 12:23 PM These two Wikipedia entries seems relevant for this section of Lucretius:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_reasoning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inference
Robert You made an interesting comment in last Sunday's meeting regarding inference, and if I… -
Don
March 16, 2026 at 11:05 PM Replied to the thread Circumstantial (Indirect) and Direct Evidence / Dogmatism vs Skepticism.Post -
Bryan
March 15, 2026 at 4:27 PM Commented on the image Keeping it Fun - Epicurus vs His Philosophical Opponents.Comment (Image/Video)Somewhat related is the fact that "Chorus" is used in Greek for a group in general, so we do have talk of the "The chorus/group of Epicureans (ὁ χορὸς τῶν Ἐπικουρείων)" [Dionysius of Halicarnassus (fl. 20 BCE), On the Composition of Words, 24] --… -
Kalosyni
March 15, 2026 at 2:32 PM Posted the thread Self-Reflection to increase happiness and reduce pain.ThreadHere is a list of areas to reflect upon, for those who feel a need to increase happiness. This list can help guide your reflections, enabling you to identify specific areas that may be causing issues or need adjustment, and you can take your time with… -
Joshua
March 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM Replied to the thread Episode 325 - EATAQ 07 - The Alleged Duality Of Nature And Its Qualities - Not Yet Recorded.Post[…] -
Cassius
ThreadMarch 15, 2026 at 7:41 AM As in another recent post I just came across this in Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols.' It strikes me on first reading as very persuasively consistent with Epicurus' defense of the senses and criticism of what we might call "otherworldliness." I'm… -
Cassius
ThreadMarch 15, 2026 at 7:34 AM I just came across this biting criticism of Socrates and his embrace of dialectice from Nietzsche's "Twilight of The Idols." I'd say a significant number of these arguments are consistent with the Epicureans' criticisms of Socrates. Posting it here for… -
Cassius
ThreadMarch 14, 2026 at 9:38 PM Welcome to Episode 325 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the… -
Cassius
ThreadMarch 14, 2026 at 6:49 PM This week we'll start at about line 265 and discuss the implications of the invisibility of atoms:
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Kalosyni
March 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM Commented on the image Keeping it Fun - Epicurus vs His Philosophical Opponents.Comment (Image/Video) -
Julia
March 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM Commented on the image Keeping it Fun - Epicurus vs His Philosophical Opponents.Comment (Image/Video)!!! After-Show !!!
starting midnight
featuring
exquisitely doubt-filled
grunge masters
The Sky Hatchlings versus The Golden Calves
on the Emerging Talent Stage! -
Eikadistes
March 14, 2026 at 12:44 PM Replied to a comment by Kalosyni on the image Keeping it Fun - Epicurus vs His Philosophical Opponents.Reply (Image/Video)With AI hiding in every corner, almost as a rule now, I'm purposefully not correcting a certain, small percentage of spelling and grammatical errors I make as a way of demonstrating that I'm not using AI.
Also, "feastival" is more of a happy accident than… -
Cassius
March 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM Replied to the thread Episode 324 - EATAQ 06 - Is Pleasure The Good, Or The Enemy of The Good?.PostEpisode 324 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. This week our episode is entitled: "Is Pleasure The Good, Or The Enemy of The Good?" I want to particularly commend Joshua's references to Socrates' discussion of the cave analogy as… -
Kalosyni
March 14, 2026 at 8:42 AM Commented on the image Keeping it Fun - Epicurus vs His Philosophical Opponents.Comment (Image/Video)Ha-ha, I see that I mis-spelled the word festival, but it made me laugh, so I'm going to leave it.
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