Coming Soon: A Presentation on the Epistemological Musings of Democritus!

After reading Democritus's aphorisms and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on him, I have come up with the following conclusions about his epistemological thoughts:

At first glance, Democritus actually appears to be a relativist. In aphorism #49 he says "In reality, we know nothing about anything, but for each person opinion is a reshaping of the soul atoms by atoms entering from without", which sounds like we can never know truth, but can only have our opinions on it.  He then, however, seemingly contradicts this with aphorism #57 where he says "To all humans the same thing is good and true, but different people find different things pleasant." His actual epistemological theory appears to be a combination between the two: there is an underlying objective truth, which no one can ever really know (Aphorism 50); however, each person has their own conjecture about this truth, and that conjecture is formed by the atomic action related to their soul.

Democritus vehemently opposes the idea that senses can lead to perception, calling them the "bastard sort of judgment" (Aphorism 45), but doesn't expound upon his idea of what "legitimate" judgment entails. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy does describe his theory of perception, however. We can establish from his aphorisms that he believes that matter does not degenerate, but rather atoms simply shift in the emptiness. All of these atoms are sort of moving around with the same pulsating motion (Aphorism 26). Perceptions are formed by atoms sloughing off of other surfaces and coming into contact with our souls, and clinging to them. He refers to these atoms as "images".
We then get this very Plato-esque vibe from him. There is truth, but we don't know it. We can only know these images, or our own perceptions of the Truth. In aphorism #4 he says "Truth is appearance and appearances are opposite and infinite", meaning that there are countless opinions/images, and if we could know what that one True appearance really was, then we could know truth. His reason for trusting in perception/"images" yet not the senses comes to us in aphorism #5: "Atoms are so small they escape our senses"; thus, Democritus distinguishes between perception and the senses.
In aphorism #42 he talks about how some people conjecture that atoms move the soul, and the soul moves the body. He then says "The soul does not appear to move the body in this way, but through choice of some kind and through thought." He doesn't say much more on this topic, but it seems that the knowledge of the soul evades him as does knowledge of the Truth...perhaps they are one and the same, and knowing the soul would mean one could know Truth as well.

As for ideas about my lesson, I will definitely have a handout and sort of a lecture time, but then I'm thinking of an activity - maybe showing a scene from the Matrix at the beginning (because I feel like in talking about what appears real, one should always show the Matrix), or having some sort of activity where you reach into different bags and feel things that are "Truth", but then you have to say what you THINK it is (showing how perception is different than reality).