Author: Cassius Amicus
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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 085 – Thunder and Lightning Part 3 – Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples?
Listen to “Episode 085 – Thunder and Lightning Part 3 – Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples?” I am your host Cassius, and together with my...
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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 084 – Thunder and Lightning Part Two
Listen to “Podcast Episode 084 – Thunder and Lightning – Very Very Frightening” on Spreaker. Welcome to Episode Eighty-Four of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with...
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Declaration Of Rights Of Epicureans To Freedom of Religion – Cassius’ Declaration of August 20, 2021
WHEREAS August 20, 2021, is as good a day as any other to make this declaration; and WHEREAS it is a better day than most others of any month, because...
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Lucretius Today Episode 083 – Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One
Listen to “Episode 083 – Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One” on Spreaker. Welcome to Episode Eighty-Three of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists...
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Foundations 005 – “By His Victory Religion Is Trampled Underfoot”
By his victory, the terror of religion is trampled underfoot, and we, in turn, are lifted to the stars. (Lucretius Book 1, Line 62) Quare religio pedibus subiecta vicissim opteritur,...
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A Response to A Stoic-Oriented Video on Epicurus
We’re never very far from the “Stoic v Epicurean” debate, and I want to thank Shahab Ghadiri for bringing to my attention a relatively recent (November 2020) video by a...
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Lucretius Today Episode 082 – The Opening Of Book Six and Restatement of the Goal of the Poem
Listen to “Episode 082 – Opening of Book Six – Restatement of Goal of Poem” on Spreaker. Welcome to Episode Eighty-Two of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and...
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Foundations 004 – “And From There He Returned to Us Again – A Conqueror…”
And from there, he returned again to us – a conqueror – to relate those things that can be, and those that can not, and to tell us on what...
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Foundations 003 – “Thus The Living Force of His Soul Won The Day.”
Thus the living force of his soul won the day. On he passed, far beyond the flaming walls of the world, traversing the immeasurable universe through mind and spirit. (Lucretius Book...
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Lucretius Today Episode 081 – Development of the Arts, and The End of Book Five
Listen to “Episode 081 – Development of the Arts And The End of Book Five” on Spreaker. Welcome to Episode Eighty-One of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and...