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Numa Numa Yeah | No Republic Was Ever Greater, Ep. 4
Episode 40
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When Romulus dies, the city of Rome is riven by ethnic conflict between Romans and Sabines, and class conflict between senators and p…
3 years, 2 months ago
Milton Against the Trivium | Episode XXXIX
Episode 39
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John Milton's clarion call to educators to "repair the ruins of our first parents" has inspired countless teachers and parents in the…
3 years, 3 months ago
Messing Up Your Kid's Education | Episode XXXVIII
Episode 38
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Giambattista Vico was a Renaissance Man after the Renaissance, but he was largely forgotten for centuries. As a professor of rhetoric…
3 years, 3 months ago
Reflections on the Sexual Revolution in France | Episode XXXVII
Episode 37
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After reading Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, a member of the French National Assembly wrote to Burke, asking for mo…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Startup City | No Republic Was Ever Greater, Ep. 3
Episode 36
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What if you gathered a bunch of friends, went out to the desert of Arizona, and built the greatest city that the world had ever seen?…
3 years, 4 months ago
How to Stage a Coup | No Republic Was Ever Greater, Ep. 2
Episode 35
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This is the second episode of our series about Livy's "Ab Urbe Condita," called "No Republic Was Ever Greater." The story of the foun…
3 years, 5 months ago
No Republic Was Ever Greater, Ep. 1
Episode 34
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This is the first episode of a new series on New Humanists, called "No Republic Was Ever Greater." We are walking through the masterp…
3 years, 5 months ago
Was Virgil Divinely Inspired? | Episode XXXIII
Episode 33
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The late antique and medieval Church saw Virgil as a pagan herald of Christ, due to the seemign messianic prophecies in Eclogue IV. I…
3 years, 6 months ago
The First English Conversation, feat. Dr. Colin Gorrie | Episode XXXII
Episode 32
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Ælfric's Colloquy is a dialogue between a teacher and his students, written both in Old English and Latin, designed to teach Latin to…
3 years, 6 months ago
Maybe the Liberal Arts Are Useful? | Episode XXXI
Episode 31
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Are classical educators dooming their students to poverty? Even back in the early 1800s, that accusation was gaining steam. Edward Co…
3 years, 7 months ago