08 Plato Strikes Back! w/ Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein joins us for a discussion about Plato, Socrates, and the legacy of Greek philosophy. Goldstein is one of the most acclaimed and widely-read philosophers today. Her most rec...
6 Apr 201750min
07 The Persian Wars w/ Ian Morris (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon)
Ian Morris, archaeologist and professor of Classics at Stanford University, joins us for a discussion on the Persian expeditions against Greece in 490-479 BC. How did the Greeks pull off a totally une...
27 Feb 201748min
06 What Is Greek Tragedy? w/ Rush Rehm (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides)
Rush Rehm, professor of classics and of theater and performing studies at Stanford University, joins us for a discussion about Greek tragedy. The origins of tragedy (and theater in general) can be tra...
29 Jan 201749min
05 Democracy and Demagogues in Ancient Athens w/ Josiah Ober
Historian Josiah Ober of Stanford University joins us for a discussion on classical Athens and how the Athenian system compared to our own democracy. As Ober writes in his recent book The Rise and Fal...
9 Jan 201749min
04 Sappho: The Tenth Muse w/ Andromache Karanika
Sappho is one of the first song-writers we know of in history, partly because she was one of the first singers to write down her songs, in around 600BC. We still know about her because she was conside...
21 Nov 201646min
03 Dying For Immortality in Homer's Iliad w/ Andrew Ford
Andrew Ford of Princeton University joins us for a conversation about the Iliad. What makes it so...epic? And what kind of vision of the world does Homer provide his audiences?
20 Okt 201649min
02 Bronze Age Apocalypse 1177BC w/ Eric Cline
Archaeologist Eric Cline on what caused the simultaneous collapse of the Mycenaeans, Hittites, and most other major civilizations at the end of the second millennium BC, thus ushering in the world's f...
24 Sep 201648min
01 Tomb Raiders, Codebreakers, and the Discovery of Antiquity (Rosetta Stone, Cuneiform, Linear B)
Four astonishing archaeological discoveries that extended our knowledge of history back into the mythical past: Champollion and the Rosetta Stone, Grotefend's cuneiform breakthrough, Schliemann diggin...
24 Sep 201640min
