New Humanists
Join the hosts of New Humanists and founders of the Ancient Language Institute, Jonathan Roberts and Ryan Hammill, on their quest to discover what a renewed humanism looks like for the modern world. The Ancient Language Institute is an online language school and think tank, dedicated to changing the way ancient languages are taught.
Podcasting since 2021 • 110 episodes
New Humanists
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BONUS: Did Sparta and Athens Have to Fight? (Greece Occidens 2)
Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War is perhaps the greatest work of history the ancient world produced. It tells the story of the long and savage destruction that Greece wreaked upon itself, led by Sparta on the one side, and Athens on the other....
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Defining "Culture" | Episode CVII
Download Ekho: ancientlanguage.com/ekho/Subscribe to New Humanists+ for bonus episodes: buzzsprout.com/1791279/subscribePop culture. Cancel culture. Judeo-Christian culture. Everyone likes to talk about "cult...
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BONUS EPISODE: Golden Hour for the Greeks (Greece Occidens 1)
We begin in Greece at the height of their power and elegance. The fractious cities of Greece had united to defeat the massive army and navy of Persia. In the years of relative peace that followed, Greece prospered. As Donald Kagan writes, "It w...
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Technology Versus the Classics, feat. Timothy Griffith | Episode CVI
When the Loeb Classical Library was launched, the greatest language teacher of the age, W.H.D. Rouse, wrote an essay meant to promote the Loebs by extolling the magnificence of Greek literature and Latin literature. And boy did he. "Your mind c...
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Straussian Aristocracy, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CV
Liberal education is for the man of leisure: Either a gentleman engaged in politics, or a philosopher engaged in contemplation. What role, then, can liberal learning have in a mass democracy? In the lecture "Liberal Education and Responsibility...
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