Author: Cassius Amicus
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A Time For All Things Under Heaven – Epicureanism And Incidental Participation In Public Life: The Cincinnatus Model
A favorite topic of fans of Epicurus today is that of discussing to what extent we should “live unknown” or participate in political affairs. Aside from the more modern example...
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Epicureanism Applied 2000 Years Later By Thomas Jefferson: “Everything in this world is a matter of calculation.”
How do we apply Epicureanism today? Is it a hopeless task to consider whether Epicurus’ clearly stated views apply to us two thousand years later? Epicurus taught in principles that...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of November!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Epicurus constantly advised us to weigh and balance our decisions on how to act (or...
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Bernard Frischer Updates the Digital Reconstruction of the Sculpture of Epicurus!
Bernard Frischer just posted the following to the Garden of Epicurus' Facebook page: We just finished a 3D digital reconstruction of Epicurus' lost portrait. It was probably erected in Athens...
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Another Excellent Greenblatt Presentation on Lucretius
The following five minute clip is a selection of “highlights” from the full interview. The full interview is twenty-three minutes long, and well worth watching. It may be viewed here....
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Epicurus’ Citations To Homer
As Norman DeWitt explained, there are several passages by Homer of particular interest to the study of Epicurean philosophy: … Epicurus possessed another weapon capable of administering perhaps a meaner...
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More Thoughts on Presenting The Basics of Epicureanism
The brilliant video of Stephen Greenblatt has me thinking of additional topics that might be covered in presenting Epicureanism, so I want to expand on my earlier post: One thing...
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A Great Clip of Stephen Greenblatt Explaining the Significance of Lucretius
This clip comes from this page at bigthink.com. Mr. Greenblatt is doing an outstanding job of re-popularizing De Rerum Natura, and he covers many critical points in this brief presentation....
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Gibbon on “An idle and extravagant opinion which was rejected with contempt by every man of a liberal education and understanding.”
As hard as it is to imagine today, there was once a time when the actions of the enlightened leaders of Western Civilization were “never regulated by any serious convictions...
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Gibbon, The Immortality of the Soul, and Epicureanism Among Women – Part I
Several recent emails and Facebook posts have me thinking about a phenomena that seems even more rare today than that of men who publicly embrace Epicurus’ Principle Doctrines: women who...