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Shakespeare’s Roman trilogy reaches a climax in The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, a love- and wine-drenched account of Octavius Caesar’s defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and his …
Published on 4 years ago
Voegelin on Classics
Episode 8
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The hothouse of prewar Vienna played host to an unprecedented concentration of genius which eventually gave birth to modernism. Present on the scene was a young Eric Voegelin. Late in h…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Julius Caesar, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VII
Episode 7
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ALI Fellow Katherine Bradshaw returns to New Humanists, in installment number two of our discussion of Shakespeare's Roman plays. This week, we talk about The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. …
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Coriolanus, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VI
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Did Shakespeare actually know anything about Ancient Rome? Or was he just writing Classical Fan-Fiction? ALI Greek & Latin Fellow Katherine Bradshaw, a scholar of both Shakespeare and t…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Solzhenitsyn's Exhortations | Episode V
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is an unlikely candidate for “humanist,” especially because of his denunciation of humanism in his infamous Harvard Address. Does the great Russian dissident have…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
The Art of Humane Education | Episode IV
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What is humane education? Are there techniques you can use to get students to appreciate the great books? Jonathan and Ryan discuss Donald Phillip Verene’s The Art of Humane Education, …
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord, Pt. 2 | Episode III
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Jonathan and Ryan continue their discussion of Alan Jacobs’s book The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. This book stars C.S. Lewis, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden,…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord 2021, Pt. 1 | Episode II
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Jonathan and Ryan dive into Alan Jacobs’s book The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. This book stars C.S. Lewis, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, …
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Humanist After All | Episode I
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This is the inaugural episode of New Humanists, the podcast of the Ancient Language Institute, found at ancientlanguage.com. ALI founders Jonathan Roberts and Ryan Hammill dive into wha…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago