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Back to SearchThe 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, 3 months 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, 3 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, 4 months ago
What the Modern World Lost | Episode LXXX
Episode 80
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Representative government, freedom of religion, the right to privacy - these are just some of the liberties of the modern world which…
1 year, 5 months ago
A Great Books Monastery | Episode LXXIX
Episode 79
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When civilization is crashing down all around you, what do you do? Retreat to the hills, build a monastery, and preserve what you can…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Barren Contemplative Life | Episode LXXVIII
Episode 78
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This week, Jonathan and Ryan discuss two early medieval selections from Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition, one taken from Grego…
1 year, 6 months ago
How to Train a Pastor | Episode LXXVII
Episode 77
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He who teaches the truth finds himself locked in battle against all those who teach falsehood. With what tools will you equip him? Th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Florence the Heir of Rome | Episode LXXVI
Episode 76
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What if the true heir of the Roman Empire was not Rome, but Florence? Over the course of his life and career as a scholar and politic…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Homer-Industrial Complex | Episode LXXV
Episode 75
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The Iliad was more popular than the Odyssey beginning in ancient times, and continued to be all the way up to World War One. Then, so…
1 year, 9 months ago
Humanism, With or Without God, feat. Eric Adler | Episode LXXIV
Episode 74
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For the first time, a collection of Irving Babbitt's and Paul Elmer More's correspondence has been published. Eric Adler, the editor …
1 year, 9 months ago