Archive - Untroubled

Book Review: The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

The most popular Epicurean-adjacent book of recent times

Jun 26 • Jack Gedney

The Awe and Wonder of Epicurean Revelation

Translation Tuesday: On the Nature of Things, Book III Proem

Jun 23 • Jack Gedney

How to Eat Like an Epicurean

Seven good pieces of advice

Jun 19 • Jack Gedney

Power, Wealth, and Fame Don’t Bring Security

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 6, 7, and 14

Jun 16 • Jack Gedney

Most Modern Stoics Aren’t Stoics

I think many of them are actually Epicureans

Jun 12 • Jack Gedney

Translation Tuesday: The Letter to Idomeneus

A glimpse of the dying Epicurus and an encapsulation of his philosophy

Jun 9 • Jack Gedney

Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics: An Epicurean Review

In many ways, he’s on our side

Jun 5 • Jack Gedney

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 5 and 17

The connection between the virtues and the pleasant life

Jun 2 • Jack Gedney

May 2026

Did Epicurus Emphasize the Reduction of Pain? Of Course!

Frank debate is a good way to the truth

May 29 • Jack Gedney

Translation Tuesday: Two Cheerfully Epicurean Poems from Horace

Epistle 1.4 and Ode 1.18, in praise of contentment (and moderate drinking)

May 26 • Jack Gedney

Don’t Worry About Politics

Reducing distress takes place closer to home

May 22 • Jack Gedney

Translation Tuesday: Letter to Menoeceus, Part 5

Fate, fortune, and living like a god among men

May 19 • Jack Gedney

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