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Back to Search#42 - The Seleucid Empire
Episode 42
Who were the Seleucids?? The largest and most diverse empire of the Hellenistic world, and yet so under-appreciated and overlooked... What do we know…
4 years, 7 months ago
#41 - Sex, Soldiers and Thebes with James Romm, Paul Cartledge and Helene Foley
Episode 41
Formed in 379 BC to combat the Spartan threat...
Hailed by Plato as a force that could never be beaten...
The last hope to preserve the freedom of Gree…
4 years, 9 months ago
#40 - Art, Psychology and the Ancient World with Dr. Nickolas Pappas
Episode 40
Super heroes and super twisted plots... is Sophocles a better psychological playwright than Euripides? How can we understand ancient art? And would P…
4 years, 9 months ago
#39 - What About Thebes?
Episode 39
What about Thebes?
When thinking of the ancient Greek world, Athens and Sparta are the cities that jump to mind. Of Course the birth of Democracy and…
4 years, 9 months ago
#38 - Classics Without the Classroom: A Guide to Getting (Really) Educated…
Episode 38
Can we understand the Classics without the Classroom? A guide to getting (really) educated… with Dr. James Hankins, Professor of History at Harvard U…
4 years, 10 months ago
#37 - Lost in Thought with Zena Hitz
Episode 37
How can we Truly be lost in thought? What does the love of learning look like... can it be corrupted? And how can we find the time for leisure?
This …
4 years, 10 months ago
#36 - War Dead in Archaic Athens with Cezary Kucewicz
Episode 36
It’s Niche. Very Niche... But how exactly did ancient Athens bury their soldiers? How did this change over time? And what huge implications could thi…
4 years, 10 months ago
#35 - Strategic Humanism with Claudia Hauer
Episode 35
How are the Classics relevant to modern leaders? What lessons can they learn from Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides or Aristotle? And what can these ancie…
4 years, 10 months ago
#34 - Defending the Western Canon...? With Zachary Davis
Episode 34
What is the Canon? How is it defined? What should it look like... and should we even have it in the first place?
This week’s Classical Wisdom Speaks …
4 years, 11 months ago
#33 - Stoic Duty: The Formula for Living Well with Jack Visnjic
Episode 33
What was the Stoic Formula for living the good life? When was the idea of moral duty conceived? And why was its invention so controversial?
This week…
4 years, 11 months ago