Science and the gods – History of Science
The Egyptian god Bes Gods are part of people's desire to know how the world works. It's one of the ways that people explain how the world works. People say [...]
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Lucretius and Epicureanism
A medieval manuscript copy of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) What's Lucretius's backstory? Lucretius was born about 99 BC, in the later Roman Republic. Nobody knows anything about [...]
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Roman philosophy – ancient Rome
A Roman man making a speech (Florence, about 50 BC) Thanks to VROMA for the image Romans meet Greek philosophy Roman men didn't begin studying philosophy until about 200 BC. At that time, [...]
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Latin Literature – the writers of ancient Rome
Latin literature: A Roman papyrus scroll from a library of Epicurean philosophy (Herculaneum, Italy) Where did Latin come from? The Roman Empire lasted for more than a thousand years, so there was [...]
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Ancient philosophy: ethics, fate, and science
Weighing the souls of the dead Philosophy means the love of wisdom. But what does that mean? It's hard to separate philosophy from religion. And it's also hard to draw a [...]
