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Back to Search#20 - How Can We Win an Argument? With Professor James M May
Episode 20
How can we win an argument, why should we learn about rhetoric and is the art of persuasion just a form of manipulation?
James M. May is the Professo…
5 years, 6 months ago
#19 - Liz Gloyn: What Makes A Monster?
Episode 19
What makes a monster? Why are ancient monsters so cool? And how can mythology help us in our day to day lives?
Dr. Liz Gloyn, Senior Lecturer in Clas…
5 years, 7 months ago
#18 - Ancient Art: Mummies, Fake Sculptures and Beheaded Emperors... with Lisa Anderson Zhu
Episode 18
Ancient Mummy Glamour shots, a Minoan scandal everyone should be talking about, the Baltimore painter, Elephants on sarcophagi and the funny history …
5 years, 7 months ago
#17 - Stoicism and Catastrophe with Professor A.A. Long
Episode 17
How can ancient philosophy help us deal with natural disasters? Are we too reliant on technology? And can anyone truly understand stoicism without su…
5 years, 7 months ago
#16 - Xenophon: The Historian Everyone at West Point Knows...
Episode 16
He is required reading at West Point, and yet less known outside the Military world... In today's Podcast with Emily Baragwanath, the Associate Profe…
5 years, 8 months ago
#15 - Was Cyrus the Great so Great? Stephen Dando-Collins
Episode 15
Cyrus the Great is considered the "Anointed One", the originator of human rights, and ruthless conqueror. Find out the true story of the founder of t…
5 years, 8 months ago
#14 - Michael Fontaine: Mental Illness in the Ancient World
Episode 14
Was there Mental Illness in the ancient world? What did people think about Suicide or Schizophrenia? How did the philosophies of Epicurus or Hippocra…
5 years, 9 months ago
#13 - Anya and Alex: What makes you YOU?
Episode 13
Anya Leonard and Alex Barrientos discuss the Paradox of Theseus' Ship. It is an ancient riddle that asks if every part of the ship is eventually repl…
5 years, 9 months ago
#12 - Victor Davis Hanson: Was there an Ancient Cancel Culture?
Episode 12
Victor Davis Hanson, an American classicist and military historian, discusses ancient parallels to cancel culture and monument removals.
Victor expla…
5 years, 9 months ago
#11 - Stephen Dando-Collins: Is Caligula All That Bad?
Episode 11
Stephen Dando-Collins, the award-winning author of 40 books, including Rise of an Empire, on which the major motion picture 300: Rise of an Empire wa…
5 years, 10 months ago