Category: Cassius the Liberator
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Note on the Last Words of Brutus – From Cassius Dio, Not Plutarch
The Wikipedia entry for the Battle of Philippi includes this (as of 09/01/17): Plutarch also reports the last words of Brutus, quoted by a Greek tragedy “O wretched Virtue, thou...
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A Brief Good Word About the Platonists – At the Expense of the Stoics
I like to admit mistakes and correct them as soon as possible, and tonight I found an article that causes me to think that my opinion of Stoicism has been...
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Brutus vs. Cassius, Stoic v. Epicurean
I am nearing the end of reading R.D. Hicks’ Stoics And Epicureans, and I am at the same time beginning to go from start to finish through the ten books...
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A Season of the Year To Remember Fallen Epicureans
One of the things that motivates me in the study of Epicureanism is the knowledge that two thousand years ago a very large living breathing group of people walked the...
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“You, Father, Found The Truth” – A Combined Father’s Day and Twentieth Message
The opening of Lucretius’ Book III is a particularly appropriate text for father’s day, but in addition I would like to point out something I see as an error that...
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The Example of Cassius The Liberator Shows The Way
What do we know about the life of Gaius Cassius Longinus, the Liberator, that might be relevant in the study of Epicureanism? (“Liberator” is so much nicer a term than...