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Episode 93
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THIS IS SPARTA. Xenophon said that, even in his day, the rest of the Greeks thought Sparta's laws wholly strange: "all men praise suc…
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Sparta Before the Reactionary Turn | Episode XCII
Episode 92
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We think of Sparta as a grim place, more of a military barracks with some civilians attached than an actual city. Its inhumane marria…
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How to Raise an Achilles | Episode XCI
Episode 91
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Plato called Homer "the educator of all Greece." But what is a Homeric education? What were the Greeks learning from their supreme ba…
11 months ago
Gamble, Marrou, and the Uses of History | Episode XC
Episode 90
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Why study history? To understand ourselves? To pass on the tradition of our ancestors to our progeny? To build something new? Jonatha…
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Philosophy Versus the Liberal Arts | Episode LXXXIX
Episode 89
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The wise man, like Abraham, does not spurn Hagar. For she is merely preparatory to Sarah. This is the analogy that the great Jewish P…
1 year ago
Christian Gnosticism? | Episode LXXXVIII
Episode 88
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Clement of Alexandria was one of the many luminaries of the Catechectical School of Alexandria, one of the early church's most distin…
1 year ago
Replacing Machiavelli with Francesco Patrizi, feat. James Hankins | Episode LXXXVII
Episode 87
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Niccolo Machiavelli is often held up as the paradigmatic political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance. But as James Hankins argue…
1 year, 1 month ago
Using Paganism to Christianize the Pagans | Episode LXXXVI
Episode 86
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In his lifetime, John Chrysostom witnessed the true beginning of Christendom: the Emperor Theodosius confirmed the public standing of…
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The Hieronymus Option | Episode LXXXV
Episode 85
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Can Christians read and appreciate pagan literature? The vexed relationship between the Church and a world that hates it has generate…
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Why Modern Literature Stinks | Episode LXXXIV
Episode 84
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In the final chapter of Climbing Parnassus, Tracy Lee Simmons distinguishes between the "skills" and the "content" arguments for clas…
1 year, 2 months ago