Subscribe to the Lucretius Today Podcast at Spreaker.com_ or in any major Podcast Provider such as Apple or Google Podcasts. The Lucretius Today Podcast is a weekly panel discussion and presentation of Epicurean philosophy. Our current podcasters are: Cassius, Martin, Joshua, Kalosyni, and Don. Each episode of the show has a thread below with podcast notes and listener comments. The podcast is available for free subscription at all major podcast sources, or it can be listened to with online players such as Podverse.fm. A complete set of past podcasts can be downloaded from Archive.org here. For the text of Lucretius read during the first 92 episodes, click here to download the EpicureanFriends Reference Edition of Lucretius. If you are new to the podcast, the best episode to start with is Episode 200 - Retrospective and Recap, which provides a history of the podcast and a discussion of the best places to start in the study of Lucretius. We don't have all our episodes uploaded to youtube, but this one is there and can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PCr7W9XW0E

Featured Podcast Episodes:
Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin
Letter to Menoeceus
The Canon, Reason, and Nature
Epicurus and His Philosophy: The New Hedonism

...and more at the Lucretius Today Podcast Page!

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If you are just getting started with our podcast, we recommend as representative examples:

• Episode One Hundred Fifty-Five "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 11 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 02**
• Episode One Hundred Twenty-Nine - Letter to Pythocles 03 - The Implications Of the Epicurean Position On The Size of the Sun**
• Episode One Hundred Thirty-Four - The Letter to Menoeceus 01- Context and Opening of the Letter**

• Starting January 11, 2020
• Episodes 1-51 were devoted to a line-by-line reading of Lucretius' "On The Nature of Things."**
• Starting January 2, 2021
• Episodes 51-92 were devoted to a line-by-line reading of Lucretius' "On The Nature of Things."**
• Episodes 93 -104 were devoted to a reading of the Torquatus narrative of Epicurean Philosophy**from Cicero's “On Ends.”
• Starting January 7, 2022
• Episodes 104 -111 were devoted to a reading of the Torquatus narrative of Epicurean Philosophy from Cicero's “On Ends.”
• Episodes 112 -125 were devoted to Epicurus' Letter to Herodotus**.
• Episodes 127 -133 were devoted to Epicurus' Letter to Pythocles**.
• Episodes 134 -140 were devoted to Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus**.
• Episodes 141 -144 were devoted to Diogenes of Oinoanda**.
• Starting October 16, 2022
• Episodes 145 - 189 (unless otherwise noted in this list) were been devoted to a book review of Norman DeWitt's “Epicurus and His Philosophy.”
• Episodes 156 -157 were devoted to an interview of Dr. Emily Austin, author of “Living For Pleasure.”
• Episode 166 of was devoted to an interview with Dr. David Glidden on Epicurean Prolepsis.
• Starting August 28, 2023
• Episodes 190 - 223 (unless otherwise noted in this list) were devoted to a detailed review of Cicero's On Ends Books One and Two.
• Episode 197 was devoted to an interview with Dr. Marcello Boeri, co-author of the book “Epicurean Political Philosophy - Theory and Practice.”
• Episode 200 was devoted to “Retrospective, Recap, and Looking to the Future” of the Podcast.
• Episode 209 was a special reading of the “Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy” collection of quotes.
• Episode 222 was a special episode on “Revisiting The Relationship Between Happiness And Pleasure”
• Episode 224 was devoted to a reading of Cosma Raimondi's 1429 Letter In Defense of Epicurus.
• Starting April 21, 2024
• Episode 226 was the first of a series of reviews of Cicero's "On The Nature Of The Gods“

First: Our aim is to bring you an accurate presentation of classical Epicurean philosophy as the ancient Epicureans understood it, not to substitute our own opinions for those of Lucretius or Epicurus.

Second: In this podcast we don't express or imply or personal opinions on modern political issues. At Epicureanfriends.com we call this approach ”Not Neo-Epicurean, But Epicurean.“ Epicurean philosophy is not Stoicism, Humanism, Buddhism, Taoism, Atheism, or Marxism - it is a unique philosophy of its own, to be understood on its own terms, and not as subordinate to or in terms of any other schools, conventional modern moralities, or political positions.

Third: The close study of Epicurean philosophy reveals that Epicurus did not advocate the pursuit of luxury, but neither did he teach a minimalist lifestyle. As is written in Vatican Saying 63, “Frugality too has a limit, and the man who disregards it is like him who errs through excess.” The four key points taught by Epicurus that we stress at EpicureanFriends.com are (1) There are no supernatural gods, (2) There is no life after death, (3) All good and evil consist in sensation, and (4) Pleasure is the beginning and end of the blessed life.

(Work In Progress. At present the best way to find an episode is to review the Title List in the full list of episodes. If you would like to assist with this project please contact Cassius at the forum.)