Category: Lucretius
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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 071 – Back to the Beginning – The Beginning of Our Corner of the Universe
Listen to “Episode 071 – Back To The Beginning – The Beginning of Our Corner of the Universe” on Spreaker. Welcome to Episode Seventy-One of Lucretius Today. I am your...
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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 051 – More on “Images”
Listen to “Episode 051 – More On The Working of "Images"” on Spreaker. Welcome to Episode Fifty-One of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists...
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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode Four Now Available!
Listen to “Episode 04 – Recap of Opening Sections Of Book One” on Spreaker. Discussion of this episode takes place at EpicureanFriends.com. Welcome to Episode Four of Lucretius Today. This...
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A Few Thoughts On Reading Lucretius
“On The Nature of Things” can seem very tedious to the modern reader in its discussion of atoms and void, and the poem can get even more confusing when the reader...
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Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus and The Defense of Pleasure
When I first started reading Lucretius as an introduction to Epicurus, I was consumed with the religious issues, and I found it very difficult to understand how Lucretius could begin...
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One of the Best Presentations On The History of Epicurean Philosophy You Will Likely Ever See
Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve, presents a talk entitled “Lucretius And His Intolerable Ideas.” This talk was given at the Getty Museum on June 5, 2014. This talk focuses...
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Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus, from Book I of De Rerum Natura, Set to Music
Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus, from Book I of De Rerum Natura, set to music. Excellent!
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Hugh Munro On The Merits of Epicurus vs. Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics
Here’s another example of why some translators and commentators are more to be trusted than others. HAJ Munro appreciated the merits of Epicurean philosophy over the other schools, so he...
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New Web Page For Lucretius
One of my great frustrations in reading and writing about Epicurus has been the lack of a good digitized version of Lucretius. No more, my friends, for today this site...
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Peace, Safety, And Good News For your Twentieth of March – The Translation of Lucretius You Want For Your Library Is Now In EPUB!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! For today’s Twentieth of March post I had in mind going back to what I consider...