Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIn Search of Sarcophagi with Barry Ferst
Season 3 Episode 1
Sarcophagus comes from Greek, with "sarco" meaning flesh and "phagus" meaning eater... but what can a flesh eating box tell us about the ancient Roma…
4 years, 2 months ago
Homer's Thebes... or lack thereof?
Season 2 Episode 28
Why doesn't Homer mention Thebes? It was a powerful city-state, at one point the most powerful in the Mediterranean... and yet it's conspicuously not…
4 years, 2 months ago
#50 - Sappho: The Lost Poetess
Episode 50
It was said her poetry will be sung as long as there are boats on the nile... There are still boats on the nile (last I checked) and yet almost no on…
4 years, 3 months ago
#49 - How to Keep an Open Mind... Like a Skeptic!
Episode 49
Skepticism has woven its way throughout the entire history of philosophy... and yet as a formal school of thought it was (and still is) fairly niche …
4 years, 4 months ago
#48 - Alexander the Great and Hernán Cortés: How Do They Compare?
Episode 48
It's not the most intuitive comparison: Alexander the Great and Hernán Cortés... but what does the Macedonian Conquerer and the Spanish Conquistador …
4 years, 4 months ago
#47 - Was Sparta Really Superior? With Myke Cole, author of the "Bronze Lie"
Episode 47
Is Sparta under attack? Or is it time for a new look at the ancient power?
Myke Cole, author of “The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warri…
4 years, 5 months ago
#46 - Why did the Free City State Disappear? with Victor Davis Hanson
Episode 46
Why did a system of over 1,500 autonomous city-states that had resisted a massive invasion in 480 BC, lose their independent statuses to Macedon 150 …
4 years, 5 months ago
#45 - Do States and Empires Die Differently? And What Can their Deaths Teach us Today?
Episode 45
Celebrated historians Niall Ferguson, James Hankins of Harvard University and renowned philosopher Angie Hobbs delve into the end of empires: How the…
4 years, 6 months ago
#44 - What Control Do We Have Over the End of Empires?
Episode 44
What control do we have over the End of Empires? And how can we prepare for their inevitable fall?
Professors A.A. Long and William B Irvine and cogn…
4 years, 6 months ago
#43 - Anya Leonard on the Fall of Nations and End of Empires
Episode 43
Joel Bowman, of Bonner Private Research, interviews Anya Leonard from Classical Wisdom about the End of Empires and the Fall of Nations... in anticip…
4 years, 7 months ago