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Ancient Greece Declassified

Ancient Greece Declassified

34 episodes

The podcast that transports you to the ancient world and back, with some good conversation along the way. It's not just about ancient Greece. It's about a huge chunk of human history that the Greek texts give us access to: from Egypt and Babylon, to Persia, to Carthage and Rome, we'll sail the wine-dark sea of history with some expert guides at the helm. Topics will include archaeology, literature, and philosophy. New episode every month.

Podcasts

53 Why Platonism and Stoicism Are Going Viral w/ John Vervaeke

Published: Aug. 21, 2023, 9:32 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 55 seconds

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"Enemies of Athens" Tour Announcement Oct. 11-19, 2023

Published: July 27, 2023, 11:04 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 37 seconds

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52 A New Theory of Democracy's Origins (It Wasn't Greece) w/ David Stasavage

Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 5:33 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 24 seconds

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51 Anacyclosis Polybius' Grand Unified Theory of History

Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 8:46 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes

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Announcing the "Mountains and Oracles" Tour in Greece! Jan. 3-11

Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 1:19 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 12 seconds

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R8 Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny? | Plato's Republic, book 8

Published: Oct. 1, 2022, 3:14 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 seconds

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49 When a Philosopher Ruled the World | Marcus Aurelius w/ Donald Robertson

Published: July 31, 2022, 6:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 12 seconds

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AGD Tour Update Only a Few Spots Left!

Published: June 4, 2022, 8:42 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes

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48 Time Traveling to the Ancient World

Published: June 1, 2022, 12:41 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 48 seconds

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R7.5 The Forms, the Matrix, and AI w/ John Vervaeke

Published: May 13, 2022, 11:54 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 38 seconds

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AGD Trip to Greece! August 1624

Published: May 4, 2022, 8:12 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds

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R7 The Cave | Plato's Republic, book 7 w/ Ben Morison

Published: April 30, 2022, 8:08 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 37 seconds

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R6.5 Why People Hate Plato

Published: April 29, 2022, 7:44 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 17 seconds

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44 The Invention of Duty

Published: Jan. 27, 2022, 8:51 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 13 seconds

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R6 The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful | Plato's Republic, book 6 w/ Gabriel Richardson Lear

Published: Dec. 12, 2021, 5:26 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 24 seconds

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42 The Hittite-Homer Connection? w/ Mary Bachvarova

Published: Nov. 28, 2021, 7:58 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 28 seconds

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R5 Philosopher Queens | Plato's Republic, book 5 w/ Mary Townsend

Published: Oct. 18, 2021, 7:58 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 48 seconds

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R4.5 Anatomy of the Soul | Plato's Republic, book 4 w/ Jonathan Lear

Published: Sept. 24, 2021, 2:22 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 40 seconds

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R4 Hogwarts and Kallipolis | Plato's Republic, book 4

Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 9:37 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 20 seconds

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38 Alexander the Great: Inherited Glory w/ Adrian Goldsworthy

Published: June 18, 2021, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 45 seconds

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R3.5 Food for the Soul | Plato's Republic, book 3 w/ Angie Hobbs (pt. 2)

Published: May 15, 2021, 8:16 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 8 seconds

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R3 Who Guards the Guardians? | Plato's Republic, book 3 w/ Angie Hobbs

Published: April 30, 2021, 4:17 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 42 seconds

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35 Stoic Duty: The Formula for Living Well

Published: April 15, 2021, 8:55 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 29 seconds

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R2.5 The Justice Loophole | Plato's Republic, book 2 w/ Rachel Barney

Published: April 4, 2021, 8:37 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 3 seconds

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R2 All Men Would Be Tyrants | Plato's Republic, book 2

Published: March 19, 2021, 11:48 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 55 seconds

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R1 The Hunt for Justice | Plato's Republic, book 1

Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 10:39 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 48 seconds

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R0 Plato's Republic, or: How to Stop a Civil War

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 7:13 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 54 seconds

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30 Rome's Most Lethal Weapon w/ Steele Brand

Published: March 17, 2020, 1:21 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 6 seconds

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29 Penelope: Weaver of Fate w/ Olga Levaniouk

Published: Feb. 1, 2020, 7:09 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 15 seconds

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28 Thucydides: A Historian for Our Time? w/ Emily Greenwood

Published: Nov. 24, 2019, 3:36 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 18 seconds

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27 Oligarchy, Part 2: Nemesis w/ Matt Simonton

Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 9:05 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 41 seconds

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26 Oligarchy, Part 1: Genesis w/ Matt Simonton

Published: Sept. 1, 2019, 8:13 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 2 seconds

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25 The Origins of Philosophy w/ Andre Laks (Presocratics, Parmenides, Heraclitus)

Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 7:57 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 45 seconds

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24 A History of Inequality w/ Walter Scheidel

Published: June 1, 2019, 3:48 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 2 seconds

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23 Greek Religion and Its Discontents w/ Barbara Graziosi

Published: May 1, 2019, 4:51 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 21 seconds

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22 Rome's Lost Epics w/ Rhiannon Evans (Ennius, Gnaeus Naevius)

Published: April 13, 2019, 2:59 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 15 seconds

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21 How to Succeed in the Iron Age w/ Alicia Stallings

Published: March 22, 2019, 8:11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 43 seconds

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20 How Democracies Fall Apart w/ Melissa Lane (stasis, Thucydides, Plato)

Published: Feb. 22, 2019, 8:11 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 36 seconds

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19 America's Greco-Roman Legacies w/ Caroline Winterer

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 8:56 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 6 seconds

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18 A History of Epic w/ Gregory Nagy and Leonard Muellner (Homer, Iliad, Gilgamesh)

Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 12:24 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 40 seconds

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17 Platonic Love w/ Zina Giannopoulou (Plato's Symposium)

Published: July 22, 2018, 1 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 58 seconds

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16 Dialogue and Dialectic w/ MM McCabe (Philosophy, Plato, Socrates)

Published: Feb. 4, 2018, 9:29 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 4 seconds

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15 Homer's Meta-Odyssey w/ Richard Martin

Published: Jan. 5, 2018, 1:46 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 17 seconds

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14 Did Aristotle Hold Science Back 2000 Years? w/ Peter Adamson

Published: Nov. 21, 2017, 10:51 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 12 seconds

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13 Decoding Atlantis w/ Mark Adams (Plato, Timaeus, Critias)

Published: Oct. 27, 2017, 10:25 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 55 seconds

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12 The Comedy of Democracy w/ Edith Hall (Aristophanes)

Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 5:16 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 8 seconds

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11 Caves and Classrooms w/ Raffaella Cribiore

Published: July 18, 2017, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 47 seconds

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10 Hannibal Takes On Rome w/ Patrick Hunt (Carthage, Polybius, Livy)

Published: June 14, 2017, 8:07 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 35 seconds

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09 The World's Oldest Computer w/ Xenophon Moussas (Antikythera Mechanism)

Published: May 19, 2017, 11:27 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 23 seconds

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08 Plato Strikes Back! w/ Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Published: April 6, 2017, 8:48 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 42 seconds

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07 The Persian Wars w/ Ian Morris (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon)

Published: Feb. 27, 2017, 4:14 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 59 seconds

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06 What Is Greek Tragedy? w/ Rush Rehm (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides)

Published: Jan. 29, 2017, 7:28 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 50 seconds

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05 Democracy and Demagogues in Ancient Athens w/ Josiah Ober

Published: Jan. 9, 2017, 5:49 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 17 seconds

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04 Sappho: The Tenth Muse w/ Andromache Karanika

Published: Nov. 21, 2016, 10:36 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 24 seconds

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03 Dying For Immortality in Homer's Iliad w/ Andrew Ford

Published: Oct. 20, 2016, 6:01 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 42 seconds

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02 Bronze Age Apocalypse 1177BC w/ Eric Cline

Published: Sept. 24, 2016, 7:50 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 46 seconds

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01 Tomb Raiders, Codebreakers, and the Discovery of Antiquity (Rosetta Stone, Cuneiform, Linear B)

Published: Sept. 24, 2016, 6:59 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 3 seconds

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00 Introduction

Published: Sept. 22, 2016, 2:09 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 57 seconds

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