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 • 105 episodes
New Humanists
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Ep. 104 BONUS: Concerning Homer and the Greeks, feat. Colin Gorrie
Colin, Jonathan, and Ryan continue their discussion of Laura Spinney's Proto, focusing on the Greeks and their Minoan and Mycenean forebears, including archaeological and philological evidence for the historicity of the Iliad....
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Out of the Steppe, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIV
What do you think of laryngeals? How should we refer to the Anatolian languages? Where do you stand on Gimbutas and Renfrew? In this episode of New Humanists, Dr. Colin Gorrie helps guide us through the Indo-European family tree. We follow the ...
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Episode 104
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Enter the Indo-Europeans, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIII
Supposedly, about half of the world population speaks languages that all come from one root language: Proto-Indo-European. How do we know, and where did "PIE" come from? Ukraine, Anatolia, or somewhere else? Did the Indo-Europeans spread out in...
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The Sophists Are the Founders of Classical Education | Episode CII
The classical education revival movement began in the 1980s as a DIY, grassroots attempt to recover the medieval liberal arts, most notably the Trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. However, the classical ed movement also frequently drapes i...
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Big Bad Leo Strauss, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CI
What is liberal education? It's the prompt that has launched one thousand essays, and in a 1959 lecture at the University of Chicago, the (in)famous Leo Strauss gave his answer. Despite fleeing Nazi Germany and coming to the United States, Stra...
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