Athens Corner17 Juli 2025

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 — Plutarch on “history” in relation to greatness, the beautiful, the heroic, the sacred I took 3 different approaches: 1) Explaining why Plutarch is relevant for us via the tradition from Machiavelli to the Federalists and AntiFederalist (with hints at the much early sources than Machiavelli) 2) What e...

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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 so...

28 Juli 20251h 27min

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