Sextus Empiricus
In a quiet corner of the Roman Empire sometime in the late second or early third century of our era, a physician sits at a wooden table, scratching notes onto a wax tablet by…
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Roman Philosophy
This group explores Roman philosophy through Lucretius, Epicurean naturalism, mortality, and freedom from fear.
Titus Lucretius Carus 99—c. 55 B.C.E.
On a warm afternoon in the late Roman Republic, in a modest house somewhere near Rome, a man sits at a wooden table, writing verse about atoms. Outside, the streets are noisy with politics:…