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Welcome to Episode One Hundred Twenty Four of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. I am your host Cassius, and together with our panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the ancient Epicurean texts, and we'll discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. We encourage you to study Epicurus for yourself…

Corresponding Sections of Lucretius: 1 - Life on Other Worlds -- Book One: [1023] Now turn your mind, I pray, to a true reasoning. For a truth wondrously new is struggling to fall upon your ears, and a new face of things to reveal itself. Yet neither is anything so easy, but that at first it is more difficult to believe, and likewise nothing is so great or so marvelous but that little by little all decrease their wonder at it. First of all the bright clear color of the sky, and all it holds with…

From our discussion: An earlier post about Lucian's "Death of Peregrine" Lucian: The Death of Peregrine - Epicurean Commentary on Christianity Full text: https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/wl4/wl420.htm The fun part (best to read the full essay to get the full context, but this is the most salient commentary on the early Christians: (Quote) As I noted during the podcast, seems I have read commentators to say that this might be the earliest - and maybe only - example of an ancient Epicurean (if…

Episode 124 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. In this episode we continue in the letter to Herodotus and discuss life on other worlds, the development of language, and the regular motion of the stars. spreaker.com/episode/50056724