Thanks to a friend on the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook Page, here is a great find – a specifically Epicurean funeral epitaph. This Latin is CIL (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum) number 10.2971....
Once again this past week I had the unfortunate experience of losing to death a valued member of my family. Times like this are the ultimate test of the value...
Today turned out to be the day that Prince William (a name selected by the Humane Society) had to be relieved from the misery of a losing battle with feline...
Authorized Doctrine 2 contains one of the most famous sayings of all Epicureanism (“Death is nothing to us“) but its meaning is frequently misunderstood. Whether wielded maliciously by an enemy...
Man’s fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage...
Norman DeWitt, who is in my opinion the author of the best book on Epicurus written since the ancient world, also wrote a second book: “St. Paul and Epicurus” (“SPAE”). ...
As someone who finds it very easy to get distracted in meaningless controversies, I need to constantly remind myself how Epicurus stressed that the clock is ticking on our mortality. ...
One of my most important goals in studying ancient Epicureanism is to gain a better understanding of the present. Thus it comes to mind now that this is the season...
Hollywood rarely portrays Epicurean characters fairly, but the attached video clip from 1951’s Quo Vadis is one such an example, and in it we can find a useful portrayal of...
I hesitate to post mainly a series of questions, rather than suggested answers, but the subject of this post is a topic I think so important that it merits an...