Athens Corner28 Jul 2025

Thucydides, Plato, Christianity (Intro)

This is the opening hour and a half of the sequel to my recording "Thucydides, Plutarch, Nietzsche" for my Technology and Nihilism series. Subscribers will have access to the full 4 hour recording soon. Here I discuss the significance of Thucydides's turn to speeches after the "archaeology." In this recording I discuss Thucydides as the alternative to the Platonic and Aristotelian tradition, and how it is that Nietzsche sees in Thucydides the standard which we are to look towards ...

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Plutarch, Our American Founders, and Greatness

This is an X/Twitter space where I discuss Plutarch and his relevance for us today, particularly as Americans on the 4th of July Themes of the discussion: — Plutarch and the American Founding — Pluta...

17 Jul 20251h 40min

Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Plutarch

This is my entire discussion of the opening to Thucydides's Peloponnesian War for the Technology & Nihilism series on my website (AthensCorner.com). In this recording I read in its entirety, and disc...

28 Apr 20243h 50min

About AthensCorner.com and the "Athenian Stranger"

If you're enjoying the recordings I've been providing here and you're curious about my larger project with AthensCorner.com and my own story, then I think you'll find this brief discussion interesting...

13 Feb 202420min