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Podcast: Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy
Episode: Episode 081 - Development of the Arts And The End of Book Five
Description: In this Episode 81 we will start at approximately Latin line 1350. We'll go through the end of Book Five and we'll discuss additional aspects of the development of civilization. Now let's join Martin reading today's text.Browne 1743[1350] Their garments were skins of beasts, pinned together with thorns, before they had learned to weave. The art of weaving came in after the discovery of iron, for their tools were made of that metal; nor could the smooth treadles, the spindles, the shittles, and the ratting beams be formed any other way. But nature at first compelled the...