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Welcome to episode 156, a special two-part Episode 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. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you too find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you…

Episode 156 - part one of our very special interview with Dr. Emily Austin, is now available. Part two will be posted within the next week, but in the meantime this first episode contains a lot to talk about. Thanks to Dr. Austin for allowing us to interview her, and we look forward to much more in the future! spreaker.com/episode/52475628

Two Facebook comments to the podcast: I don't know about the "surprisingly," but given that the second commenter is a philosophy professor himself, that's high praise!

I have been listening to this episode several times to try to think about how to expand on some of the details. I think our serendipitous references "going to Rome" proved to be a good way of visualizing the question of how much pleasure to pursue in life. Dr Austin herself was reflecting on the word "enrich" as a way to look at it. I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on the usefulness of this analogy and the direction the discussion took. How many times should we desire to visit Rome?

Virtually every aspect of the discussion in both part 1 and part 2 is good food for thought. Dr. Austin does a good job with it but as she says, this is new territory for all of us, to think about how best to express and defend the positions. Experience doing it will make us all better both in understanding and in communication.