Author: Cassius Amicus
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New Pro-Epicurean Book For Your Library: “Epicurus for Everyone”
This week I learned about a new pro-Epicurean book that I highly recommend: Stuart Pickering’s “Epicurus for Everyone.” Mr. Pickering lives in Australia, and recently (2011) made his new book...
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One More Experimental Video: Hail Epicurus!
One more experimental video: Hail Epicurus! Here’s the refrain: Hail Epicurus, Guide to all Nature! Preachers and Platonists now threaten us in vain; Happy as gods, we can plan for...
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In The Epicurean Tradition of Lucian, Consider – “Do The Gods of Kolob Rant?”
If you are a fan of Epicurus and have not treated yourself to Lucian’s “Zeus Rants” or “Alexander the Oracle-Monger,” you really need to remedy that oversight. The latter work...
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Revised Edits: A Hymn That Might Have Been, If Joseph Smith had read Lucretius instead of ……whatever!
I recently came across the Mormon hymn “If You Could Hie to Kolob,” which I find interesting because — with only a few alterations — it can be turned from...
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Program Released for the 2012 Panhellenic Symposium on Epicurean Philosophy – Athens, Greece
WOW I wish I were going to this: PRESS RELEASE The Friends of the Epicurean Philosophy “Garden of Athens” and “Garden of Salonica” are organizing the 2nd Panhellenic Symposium of...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! A friend in Greece has recently informed me about the Seikilos inscription and song, which is...
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An Epicurean Seminar Agenda From Last Year’s First PanHellenic Symposium of Epicurean Philosophy
A new friend in Greece recently forwarded to me a copy of the Agenda of last year’s Epicurean seminar. I was not able to attend last year, and will miss...
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More From The Epicurean “Homeland” – Symposium In Athens Is Next Month
I failed to catch a typo in yesterday’s post, but I have now corrected it to make clear that the date of the Second Symposium sponsored by the Friends of...
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Hail to the Friends of Epicurus in Greece!
In a recent email from a reader, I learned of the activities of the friends of Epicurus in Greece, and I must say they seem to be thriving better than...
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In Thanks For Another Happy Year at NewEpicurean.com
For my final post of 2011, I would like to end by thanking all those who have added so much to my understanding of Epicureanism over the past year. ...