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BONUS: The Fifty Years
After a panhellenic force led by Sparta and Athens defeated the Persians, it took 50 years for the Greek world to fracture in two, pitting Sparta against Athens in the catastrophic Peloponnesian War. That 50-year interval of relative (but not t...
How Not to Define Justice, feat. Colin Redemer | Episode CXV
When you first pick up the world's most famous work of philosophy, Plato's Republic, you might be surprised to find that it starts with Socrates describing a day trip he took with his friend Glaucon to check out a festival happening just outsid...
BONUS: Will Athenian Civilization Die Tonight?
Complaining to Sparta about Athens' growing power and its breach of a peace treaty, Corinth sought to rouse its reluctant Spartan ally to arm itself and declare war on Athens. The cautious Spartan king Archidamus replied in a circumspect speech...
The Charlotte Mason Episode | Episode CXIV
Charlotte Mason argues that all education is ultimately self-education. Unless a student makes the choice to assimilate knowledge into himself, he will not learn anything. If this is so, what role is there for a teacher? Can a student actually ...
Real Culture, or Culture as Costume? | Episode CXIII
Properly understood, politics is an expression of culture. But the politician would like to use culture for political ends. In doing so, he boils his people's culture down to the merely aestheticized: food, traditional dance, music, dialect or ...