Nov 25

Hermes Here, Admitting All My Sins: the Remix

Michaela here giving you a remix of past episodes, looking at three different times that we have explored Hermes here on the show. From the Homeric Hymn, to Emily Hauser's How Women Became Poets, to Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound we are examining the ways that Hermes appears with ... Show More

47m 34s

Nov 21

Conversations: Deconstructing 'Classicism' and So-Called Western Civilization, w/ Dr Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Liv and Michaela speak with Dan-el Padilla Peralta about his new book Classicism and Other Phobias, breaking down the 'Founders of Western Civilization' myth, the field of 'Classics', and the racialized mess its often made. Find more about the <a href="https://press.princeton. ... Show More

1h 42m

Nov 18

Liv Reads Statius: The Thebaid (Part 12)

Liv reads (the second half) of Book 11 of Statius' Thebaid, translated by JH Mozley. It's the beginning of the end... The brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, fight to the death and leave their surviving family members - Jocasta, Antigone, Ismene, and Oedipus - to deal with their ... Show More

37m 17s

Jun 2024

Protagoras by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Protagoras by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy Immerse yourself in the profound philosophical dialogues of Plato’s 'Protagoras,' where the timeless debate of virtue and knowledge unfolds in a captivating interplay between Socrates and the famed Sophist, Protagoras. This audiob ... Show More

3h 20m

Jun 2024

Symposium by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Symposium by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Symposium is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with the genealogy, nature and purpose of love, on another level the book deals with the topic of knowledge, specifically ho ... Show More

2h 18m

Jun 2024

Gorgias by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Gorgias by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy Dive into the captivating world of Plato's 'Gorgias,' a philosophical dialogue that transcends time and invites you to explore the intricate dance between rhetoric, morality, and the pursuit of true knowledge. As you listen to the au ... Show More

7h 17m

Jun 2024

Ion by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Ion by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy Dive into the captivating world of Plato's 'Ion,' a thought-provoking dialogue that unravels the intricate relationship between art, inspiration, and knowledge. This philosophical gem features Socrates engaging with Ion, a skilled rhapso ... Show More

56m 12s

Jun 2024

Timaeus by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Timaeus by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy 'Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down to the creation of ... Show More

8h 4m

Oct 2022

Plato's Atlantis

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's account of the once great island of Atlantis out to the west, beyond the world known to his fellow Athenians, and why it disappeared many thousands of years before his time. There are no sources for this story other than Plato, and he tells ... Show More

54m 15s

Dec 2021

368 The Story of the Nativity (with Stephen Mitchell)

Stephen Mitchell has translated or adapted some of the world's most beautiful and spiritually rich texts, including The Gospel According to Jesus, The Book of Job, Gilgamesh, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, ... Show More

1 h

Mar 2021

Ep. 266: Jonathan Lear's Plato: Psyche and Society (Part One)

On essays from Lear's Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul (1988): "Inside and Outside the Republic," "Eros and Unknowing: The Psychoanalytic Significance of Plato's Symposium," and "An Interpretation of Transference," which compares Socrates' questioning wi ... Show More

51m 5s

Nov 2021

360 FMK Shakespeare! (with Laurie Frankel) | Tolstoy's Gospel (with Scott Carter)

It's a good day for cooking! First up: Scott Carter, author of the play Discord: The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy, joins Jacke for a look at the gospel as updated by Leo Tolstoy. Then novelist Laurie Frankel (author of One Two Three ... Show More

1h 9m

Nov 2023

563 Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson)

Jacke talks to "serial biographer" Carl Rollyson (The Last Days of Sylvia Plath, The Life of William Faulkner) about his new book, Sylvia Plath: Day by Day: Volume 1: 1932-1955, which draws upon Plath's diaries and other writings to present Plath's life from her birth in Boston, ... Show More

57m 57s

Liv Reads Plato: The Critias Dialogue