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		<title>Epicurus and Aristotle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor John O’Neill of the University of Manchester is a philosopher and political economist with an interest in environmental policy. He is principal investigator for a project on ‘Justice, Vulnerability and Climate Change.’ A paper by him on well-being and &#8230; <a href="http://beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/epicurus-and-aristotle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4892267&amp;post=2610&amp;subd=beliefandenvironment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power and wealth compared with pleasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The emphasis in Epicurean philosophy on the importance of pleasure has often given rise to misunderstanding and misrepresentation, in the time of Epicurus and ever since. The author Athenaeus, who flourished around AD 200, records with approval the Roman attitude &#8230; <a href="http://beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/power-and-wealth-compared-with-pleasure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4892267&amp;post=2577&amp;subd=beliefandenvironment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lucretius on Mars and Venus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the prologue to Book I of On the Nature of Things, Lucretius refers to a ‘man of Greece’, a phrase which Ennius applied to Pyrrhus king of Epirus. (Cf. ‘A man of Greece’, 16/3/2011.) In an article on Ennius &#8230; <a href="http://beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/lucretius-on-mars-and-venus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4892267&amp;post=2559&amp;subd=beliefandenvironment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the prologue to Book I of Lucretius&#8217; On the Nature of Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Stephen Harrison, in an article published in 2002, drew attention to features in the prologue of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things which indicate in one way or another the influence of the earlier Roman poet Ennius (239-269 BC). &#8230; <a href="http://beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/understanding-the-prologue-to-book-i-of-lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4892267&amp;post=2543&amp;subd=beliefandenvironment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A man of Greece</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of the most famous incidents in Greek myth, the Greek expedition against the Trojans is held up at the port of Aulis, waiting to cross the sea to Troy. The goddess Artemis has sent contrary winds, and will &#8230; <a href="http://beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/a-man-of-greece/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4892267&amp;post=2534&amp;subd=beliefandenvironment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tendencies to misunderstand and misrepresent Epicureanism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plutarch, in narrating the life of Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus who fought against the Romans, gives an account of the occasion (in 280 BC) when Cineas explained Epicureanism to the Roman representative Fabricius (as noted in yesterday’s entry). Fabricius’s &#8230; <a href="http://beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/tendencies-to-misunderstand-and-misrepresent-epicureanism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4892267&amp;post=2521&amp;subd=beliefandenvironment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cineas tells the Romans about Epicurus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The region of Epirus, in the north-west of Greece, saw the rise of a strong tribal state in the fourth century BC. With the help of the Macedonians, the Molossian king Alexander I became head of a united Epirus (342-330), &#8230; <a href="http://beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/cineas-tells-the-romans-about-epicurus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4892267&amp;post=2503&amp;subd=beliefandenvironment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1867 H.A.J. Munro produced a collation of a Cambridge manuscript of the Latin poem Aetna, traditionally ascribed to Vergil. This laid a basis for further study. In 1901 appeared Robinson Ellis’s standard edition with translation and commentary. In his &#8230; <a href="http://beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/let-none-be-misled-by-the-figments-of-poets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4892267&amp;post=2487&amp;subd=beliefandenvironment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Latin poem Aetna, datable on internal grounds to the first century AD, has been transmitted in fragmentary condition without firm indications of authorship. The theme had been dealt with previously by a number of poets, including Vergil and Ovid, &#8230; <a href="http://beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/explaining-mount-etna/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4892267&amp;post=2470&amp;subd=beliefandenvironment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophical thoughts of Seneca and Lucilius</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We learn something of Lucilius, to whom Seneca addressed his Moral Epistles, from two of the Epistles in which Seneca quotes from Lucilius’s own poetry. Epistle 8 deals with the importance of philosophical contemplation. It may seem idle, to withdraw &#8230; <a href="http://beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/philosophical-thoughts-of-seneca-and-lucilius/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beliefandenvironment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4892267&amp;post=2453&amp;subd=beliefandenvironment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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