Eikas cheers to all! This month, I published The Fourth Element of the Soul in Lucretius on my Substack blog. Last month, our friend Marcus updated the Epicurean Writings page, and I published the book review of “Comment peut on être dieu” (How One Can Be A God). This is a French-language book that Marcus recommended and was deeply insightful concerning the theory and practices concerning the Epicurean use of moral models.

Our friend Michael McOsker was featured in AI reads text from famously inscrutable ancient scroll for the first time. Recent efforts to decipher the scrolls from Herculaneum using laser technology are beginning to yield fruit. For more on Herculaneum:

Herculaneum Scrolls: Unraveling History

Ruins of Herculaneum Walking Tour – Walk and Learn about the ruins with City Walks

Speaking of writings, my amazon author page has all of my published books available in English and Spanish. One way to support my mission of propagating philosophy in the 21st Century would be to share Epicurean books with others as holiday gifts. You may also search the SoFE page for book reviews to give you ideas of books to give away (written by Emily Austin, by the Epicureans from Greece, and many others). These books would make good holiday gifts for friends of like mind.

The Overthink Podcast published the episode Speaking Truth to Power (Parrhesia), which does not specifically focus on the Epicureans but does help to contextualize the practice of parrhesia.

The essay The pursuit of pleasure and the desire for wholeness adds a thought-provoking theoretical layer to the impulse toward pleasure that is tied to developmental psychology.

I’ve been listening and enjoying to the podcast series that concludes with Philosophers of the Future – Nietzsche Podcast Season Three Finale. I’ve derived many hours of enjoyment listening to this YouTube channel’s podcast series while I do chores at home, or on the train. The facilitator has many insightful and enjoyable, long discussions about books by Nietzsche. I know that N is not everyone’s cup of tea, and he has his faults, but he is one of the philosophers who has taught me to love philosophy, and I find myself coming back to his books from time to time.