Author: Cassius Amicus
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HAPPY BELATED TWENTIETH OF SEPTEMBER! – To Compensate for My Lateness – Links To PDFs Every Fan of Epicurus Ought To Have
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Sorry for the delay in posting this Happy Twentieth Message! I have been reviewing my own...
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Three-Dimensional Printed Bust of Epicurus Now Available
In case you have not been following this in the Facebook “Garden of Epicurus” group, my second generation 3d mesh has now produced its first output. Follow this link to...
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A Season Of The Year To Remember Fallen Epicureans
[As we appear to be on the verge of escalating another ill-considered war, this time in Syria, the following post, which is a repeat of a topic I have repeated...
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Epicurus’ Letter to Pythocles – Elemental Edition
With today’s release of the Letter to Pythocles, I have now completed these “Elemental Editions” of each of Epicurus’ three letters from Diogenes Laertius, plus a version of the Inscription...
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Epicurus’ Letter To Menoeceus – Elemental Edition
Continuing toward completion with the series of Audio text-to-speech versions of the core Epicurean texts, today’s update is a release of Epicurus’ Letter to Menoeceus. From the intro: This presentation...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of August, and A Few Thoughts on The Folly of Thinking Virtue Is Its Own Reward
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! In preparing my recent synopsis of the Inscription of Diogenes in Oinoanda, I was confronted with...
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New Audio “Reconstructed” Version of the Inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda
Today I am posting an audio “reconstructed” version of the Epicurean Inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda. The presentation has been prepared based on the translation of Martin Ferguson Smith,...
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**New Audio Version** Cicero’s “Defense of Epicurus” from “On Ends”
Of all the ancient Epicurean texts, this is the one I have always found the most clear and compelling to listen to. And of course ironies of ironies, this is...
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Frances Wright On The Proper Epicurean Attitude Toward Those With Whom We Disagree
This weekend in reviewing a number of different items in a number of contexts, I had reason to revisit a section of “A Few Days In Athens” that concerns something...
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Stoic vs. Epicurean: The Confrontation Between Zeno And Epicurus in Frances Wright’s “A Few Days In Athens”
Many fans of Epicurus have only a passing understanding of the inherent and irreconcilable conflict between Epicureanism and Stoicism. An excellent presentation of those differences can be found in Chapter...