Original language: Greek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I read “Letter to Herodotus” (not<\/strong> a letter to the historian Herodotus) and “Letter to Menoeceus,” both online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main surprising thing is that Epicurus thought (correctly) that matter is made of atoms. He got a few things wrong, and he believed in the existence of the soul, but pretty fascinating how advanced the ancient Greeks were.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not much notable about it – I disagree with his notion that pleasure is just the absence of pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Original language: Greek. I read “Letter to Herodotus” (not a letter to the historian Herodotus) and “Letter to Menoeceus,” both online. Letter to Herodotus The main surprising thing is that Epicurus thought (correctly) that matter is made of atoms. He got a few things wrong, and he believed in the existence of the soul, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Letter to Herodotus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Letter to Menoeceus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n