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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…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
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…
10 months, 2 weeks 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…
11 months 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…
11 months, 2 weeks 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…
1 year ago
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…
1 year ago
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, 1 month ago
The Declines and Falls of Classical Education | Episode LXXXIII
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Classical education has declined and fallen before - as the Roman Empire succumbed to internal weakness and external threats, so did …
1 year, 1 month ago
Will Classical Schools Climb Parnassus? | Episode LXXXII
Episode 82
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A truly classical education is centered on the study of the Classics: the ancient languages and literatures of Greece and Rome. The a…
1 year, 2 months ago
"The Church Is Like the Ancient Roman State" | Episode LXXXI
Episode 81
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The Renaissance humanist Biondo Flavio dedicated his massive book Roma Triumphans, a historical investigation of what made Rome great…
1 year, 2 months ago