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EI Weekly Listen — David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness

EI Weekly Listen — David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness

Update: 2024-12-061
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Myths frame and tailor the past in a way that can ground and stabilise a community, however large or small. By situating them within the fabric of history, myths provide a sense of tradition and belonging to rally around. Read by Helen Lloyd.



Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.



Image: A statue of Romulus and Remus on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. Credit: Russell Kord / Alamy Stock Photo 
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EI Weekly Listen — David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness

EI Weekly Listen — David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness

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