Nudie Reads Aesop's Fables [S3E32]

Gritty, operatic, great writing from the underworld of Prohibition-era Chicago 1929. A vivid newspaper report on the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, one of the most infamous gangland slaughters in American history. 🍸🗞️🔫💔❄️🕵️‍♂️

1 Maj 16min

Shakespeare debuts on Nudie Reads! The Merchant of Venice (1596) delivers high drama in Act 4’s courtroom scene, with Portia’s “quality of mercy” speech and a cunning legal twist. Mercy, justice, and contracts collide in one of the many of the Bard’s timeless works. 🎭📜 ⚖️💧

27 Apr 21min

The story of St George is a corker. Slays a dragon, saves of princess, survives dreadful torture. Where does it come from? A rather odd English translation by publisher William Caxton of the 13th C classic collection The Golden Legend captured the weirdness. 🐉⚔️📖

24 Apr 24min

Homer shines on Nudie Reads! The Odyssey(8th century BC) delivers epic adventure—Odysseus vs. the Cyclops is pure wit and grit. From TikTok to Hollywood, it’s a timeless tale people love to retell. 📜🚢

20 Apr 38min

A poet, a painter, and a patriot’s ride! Grant Wood’s 1931 quirky pic The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere is a great visualcompanion for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” as it gallops through 250 year old history. Saddle up for an offbeat Thursday ep! 📜🐎

17 Apr 13min

Lady Fortune spins her wheel. Boethius, a Roman in 534, imagined her as Lady Luck in person and wrote of her capricious ways in "On The Consolation of Philosophy" as he sat on death row. Wisdom from a condemned man. 📜🎡

13 Apr 26min

Rock n roll and Roman history. There’s plenty of cross-over to consider. And a certain James Newell Osterberg Jnr better known as Iggy Pop penned a lovely review of Edward Gibbon’sThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1995 that proves it. Who knew he had it in him? 📖✨

10 Apr 11min