Podcasts about Anabasis

We march into the Persian Empire with Xenophon and Alex Petkas to break down the opening of Anabasis—a story of betrayal, survival, and leadership born from failure. This isn't just ancient military drama; it's a mirror for modern challenges: how to lead when no one else will, how to make decisions in chaos, and how to earn trust in a world of uncertainty.https://www.costofglory.com/Retreat infohttps://greece.costofglory.com/This is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Bernie Maopolski.If you like what we do you can support the Fan of History project on https://www.patreon.com/fanofhistory or https://buymeacoffee.com/whatsnewinhistoryYou can also get all the old episodes if you subscribe to Fan of History+ at https://fanofhistory.supercast.com/Custom Printed Shirts in 3 days! Go to graveyardprinting.com and enter coupon code FANOFHISTORY2025 for 11% offContact information:E-mail: zimwaupodcast@gmail.comhttp://facebook.com/fanofhistoryhttps://twitter.com/danhorninghttps://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/Music: “Tudor Theme” by urmymuse.Used here under a commercial Creative Commons license. Find out more at http://ccmixter.org/files/urmymuse/40020 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we chat all about how you can celebrate Hades and Persephone on the spring equinox, a sacred day in their calendar that marks the rising aka Anabasis of Persephone from the Underworld.  I also did a podcast episode in the fall of 2024 that was all about celebrating the fall equinox, so if you're watching from the southern hemisphere I would highly reccomend checking that out, it's episode #58 Join my Patreon and get access to the "New Growth" Ritual Instructions plus the Persephone Devotional Oil recipie! Both posts are new as of this week. I constantly update the patreon portal with spell recipies and astrological musings plus we hold monthly live events in the Coven Tier! Join here Instagram: @angelicascresci  Youtube: @AngelicaCresci  

For centuries, magic and warfare have been deeply intertwined, shaping military strategy, morale, and even battlefield outcomes. From Mesopotamian divination and Greek war omens to medieval sacred warfare and modern occult operations, supernatural beliefs have influenced how wars are fought and won. In this episode, we explore the forgotten history of magical warfare, revealing how esoteric traditions have been used to protect warriors, disrupt enemies, and even alter the course of history.Did John Dee's Enochian magic help defeat the Spanish Armada? Were Nazi leaders using occult knowledge for strategic advantage? And did British Wiccans perform a ritual to psychically deter Hitler from invading Britain? We examine historical records, esoteric practices, and modern interpretations of war magic, shedding light on one of history's most mysterious intersections of the mystical and the military.

Imagine being stranded thousands of miles deep in enemy territory with 10,000 soldiers, no allies, no clear way home, and the only means of escape was by foot. This was the predicament faced by Xenophon and the Greek mercenaries in Anabasis, one of the most gripping survival stories of the ancient world. In this episode, we delve into the incredible journey of these soldiers, their battles against the elements, rival armies, and even their own internal strife. Xenophon’s firsthand account is not just a tale of military strategy—it’s a timeless story of leadership, perseverance, and what it means to face impossible odds (it’s been referenced by Napoleon, Lawrence of Arabia, and the director of the 1979 movie “The Warriors”). Why has this 2,400-year-old narrative inspired everyone from ancient generals to modern filmmakers? To unpack the enduring power of Anabasis, we’re joined by Alex Petkas, host of The Cost of Glory podcast, who brings a fresh perspective to Xenophon’s masterwork. Alex shares his insights into Xenophon’s leadership style, his philosophical roots as a student of Socrates, and the universal lessons we can draw from the march of the 10,000.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Since the blockbuster success of his musical “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda has been busy: acting, directing, and composing for Disney projects, including the upcoming movie “Mufasa: The Lion King.” But his new project is more personal, and a throwback in the best sense. Working with the playwright Eisa Davis, he has reimagined a movie from his childhood as a concept album. “The Warriors” is a cult classic released in 1979. “The Warriors are a gang from Coney Island, and they have to fight their way from the Bronx all the way back down to Coney Island in the course of the film,” Miranda tells David Remnick. The film reads as a nineteen-seventies period piece, but Miranda and Davis find a classical dimension to it. “The tale is an old tale. Sol Yurick, who wrote the novel the movie is based on, based it on the Anabasis, which is a soldier's account of trying to get back home from war” in ancient Greece. “It's this mythic story. . . . It doesn't get more clear than that as a plotline.” To tell that story in song and rap, Miranda brought together a cast of legends including Lauryn Hill, Nas, Marc Anthony, members of the Wu-Tang Clan, and more. If releasing a concept album, meant to be listened to straight through, seems like a stretch for 2024 audiences, Miranda is unfazed. “What's interesting about “Hamilton” is that no one I talked to thought it was a good idea when I was writing it. But I could see it. And it was the idea that wouldn't leave me alone.”Follow New Yorker Radio Hour Here - https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/with-the-warriors-lin-manuel-miranda-takes-on-another-new-york-story Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prior to recording this episode, I had never put any real thought into Cyprus' role in Alexander the Great's campaigns. Afterall, Cyprus is rarely (if ever) mentioned when discussing Alexander's conquests. And yet I was floored to learn not only of its significant naval contributions but just how often Alexander himself recognized the superiority of Cypriot seafaring and engineering know-how to support his expeditions. Let's consider this excerpt in the lead up to the Siege of Tyre: "...[W]ith Cyprus too brought on side, we would be assured of supremacy at sea, and that of itself clears the way for our expedition to Egypt. When we have subdued Egypt, we shall have no further worries for Greece or our own country, and we can then make our move on Babylon with security ensured at home, our reputation enhanced, and the Persians cut off from the entire sea and all the land this side of the Euphrates." - Alexander quoted in Arrian's The Anabasis (17:4). The Siege of Tyre was a pivotal stepping stone opening up the East to Alexander's armies. It's with the coordinated naval efforts of Pnytagoras of Salamis, Androcles of Amathus, and Pasicrates of Curium (among others) that Alexander was able to take the Sidonian harbour of Tyre. And yet their contributions didn't end there. "Alexander had recruited teams of engineers from Cyprus" (17:5 Arrian) in order to assist in the construction of siege-engines and the building of a causeway that connected the mainland to the island of Tyre in perhaps one of the most impressive feats of engineering in all of Alexander's campaigns. To my surprise, Cypriots were more than a mere footnote in the Siege of Tyre. They played vital roles throughout Alexander's campaigns into the East as oarsmen, engineers, explorers, soldiers, trierarchs, and some were even elevated to esteemed positions as Companions and even Satraps (see Stasanor of Soli who was appointed as Satrap of Bactria in modern-day Afghanistan). They accompanied Alexander as they explored the Hydapses River (modern-day Jhelum River in Pakistan and India) while others were specifically sent to explore hitherto unknown regions. "The most extensive of the exploratory voyages was that undertaken by the helmsman Hieron from Soli. He too was given a triaconter by Alexander, with instructions to coast round the entire Arabian peninsula..." (Arrian 17:4) They were an integral component to Alexander's war machine and instrumental in his many of his successes.   In this month's episode, I'm excited to welcome researcher and historian, Andreas Parpas to discuss Cyprus' role in Alexander the Great's campaigns and its pivotal contributions to laying a foothold eastwards towards Babylon and beyond.

Arrian's "Anabasis of Alexander" provides us one of the most reliable accounts of Alexander the Great's campaigns -- including Alexander's Siege of Tyre. The siege, which took place in 332BC, relied heavily on Cypriot and Phoenician naval support and provided Alexander a foothold into the Persian Empire. In fact, Arrian speaks of relying on Cypriot engineers who would fit together many war machines for the campaign. With the support of the kings of Cyprus (including King Pnytagoras of Salamis who you'll hear referenced in the Primary Source) it is considered one of Alexander's most impressive accomplishments. In an incredible feat of engineering, a causeway was built connecting the Island of Tyre to the mainland, allowing Alexander to cross and successfully capture the island fortress. Cypriots would continue to furnish Alexander's campaigns with naval and engineering support throughout Alexander's incursion into Asia and including the Hydapses River in India (Jhelum River). Next month, I interview Andreas Parpas on Cyprus' role during Alexander's campaigns. **If you've enjoyed this Primary Source, please consider supporting the History of Cyprus on Patreon. Donations help directly fund the production of these historical sources: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheHistoryofCyprusPodcast You can also help the podcast by following on Instagram and by leaving positive reviews on wherever you happen to stream the episodes :)

Since the blockbuster success of his musical “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda has been busy: acting, directing, and composing for Disney projects, including the upcoming movie “Mufasa: The Lion King.”  But his new project is more personal, and a throwback in the best sense. Working with the playwright Eisa Davis, he has reimagined a movie from his childhood as a concept album.  “The Warriors” is a cult classic released in 1979. “The Warriors are a gang from Coney Island, and they have to fight their way from the Bronx all the way back down to Coney Island in the course of the film,” Miranda tells David Remnick. The film reads as a nineteen-seventies period piece, but Miranda and Davis find a classical dimension to it. “The tale is an old tale. Sol Yurick, who wrote the novel the movie is based on, based it on the Anabasis, which is a soldier's account of trying to get back home from war” in ancient Greece. “It's this mythic story. . . . It doesn't get more clear than that as a plotline.” To tell that story in song and rap, Miranda brought together a cast of legends including Lauryn Hill, Nas, Marc Anthony, members of the Wu-Tang Clan, and more. If releasing a concept album, meant to be listened to straight through, seems like a stretch for 2024 audiences, Miranda is unfazed.  “What's interesting about “Hamilton” is that no one I talked to thought it was a good idea when I was writing it.  But I could see it. And it was the idea that wouldn't leave me alone.”

ESPELEOLOGIA (s.f.) “é o estudo das cavernas, de sua gênese e evolução, do meio físico que elas representam, de seu povoamento biológico atual ou passado, bem como dos meios ou técnicas que são próprias ao seu estudo”. Na Raphus Press, no canal RES FICTA, os episódios de “Espeleologia” são comentários sobre questões que escapam do livro, envolvendo discussões teóricas mais amplas de poéticas e formas narrativas.Bibliografia do episódio de hoje: “Odisseia”, Homero (Cosac Naif, 2014); “Ilíada”, Homero (Ubu, 2018); “Anabasis”, Xenophon (Loeb Classical Library, 2003); “Viagem ao Volga”, Ahmad Ibn Fadlam (Carambaia, 2018), “O Itinerário de Benjamin Tudela”, traduzido e organizado por Jacó Guinsburg (Perspectiva, 2017); “Hunt for the Southern Continent”, James Cook (Penguin, 1999); “In Patagonia”, Bruce Chatwin (Vintage Classics, 2019); “Prague Pictures”, John Banville (Bloomsbury, 2003).Entre para a nossa sociedade, dedicada à bibliofilia maldita e ao culto de tenebrosos grimórios: o RES FICTA (solicitações via http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html).Nosso podcast também está disponível nas seguintes plataformas:- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NUiqPPTMdnezdKmvWDXHs- Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-da-raphus-press/id1488391151?uo=4- Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMDlmZmVjNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw%3D%3D Apoie o canal: https://apoia.se/podcastdaraphus.Ou adquira nossos livros em nosso site: http://raphuspress.weebly.com. Dúvidas sobre envio, formas de pagamento, etc.: http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html.Nossos livros também estão no Sebo Clepsidra: https://www.seboclepsidra.com.br/marca/raphus-press.html

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Grab tickets to our live show in Belfast: www.universe.com/events/lions-led…t-tickets-83V5QD Can't make it to Belfast? We're streaming it! Get your stream tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-live-in-belfast-tickets-1008166803047?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1 Greek Mercenaries get trapped after a job goes wrong. Now, they have to try and find their way home in a series of war crimes, ragers, and making the worst boots known to man. Sources: Xenophon. Anabasis. Robin Lane. The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand https://www.thecollector.com/ten-thousand-greek-hoplites/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-battle-of-cunaxa-and-the-march-of-the-10000/

An ancient mummy, a curse, and a time loop. In this episode, we examine Rise of the Mummy from 2021. We also delve into the final days of Alexander the Great to see what caused his downfall, and what future plans he had in store. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MummyMoviePodcast Email: mummymoviepodcast@gmail.com BibliographyArrian. (1976). Anabasis of Alexander. (E. I. Robson, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Crompton, S. W. (2003). Alexander the Great. Infobase Publishing. IMDB. (2024). Rise of the Mummy. Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/?ref_=nv_home O'Brien, J. M. (2003). Alexander the Great: the invisible enemy: a biography. Routledge. Plutarch. (1919). The Life of Alexander. In Plutarch's Lives (B. Perrin, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Siculus, D. (1933). The Library of History. (C. H. Oldfather, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shane Brennan, Associate Professor of History and Classics at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh and author of Xenophon's Anabasis: A Socratic History, joins the show to talk about why the Anabasis remains an important part of the Western canon of military writing. ▪️ Times      •      01:30 Introduction      •      02:05 Dubai to Bangladesh     •      05:37 Xenophon's start       •      09:25 Several levels of failure     •      12:37 “An exemplary Socratic student”       •      14:40 Fighting for the Persians     •      17:18 Cyrus the Younger         •      20:46 A leader emerges       •      29:41 “How was he so right?”      •      36:43 Matterhorn     •      38:33 Exile     •      42:01 An instruction on leadership     •      44:16 “There is always something there…” Follow along  on Instagram Find a transcript of today's episode on our School of War Substack Follow the link to buy the book - Xenophon's Anabasis: A Socratic History

"WARRIORS, COME OUT TO PLAY-AY!" For the second of our juvenile delinquency duo of films, we cover Walter Hill's 1979 cult classic The Warriors. The film is adapted from Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name, which itself is adapted from Xenophon's Anabasis. Walter Hill takes this classical text and filters it through youth gang culture, comic books, and classic film westerns, using a soundtrack from Barry De Vorzon that fuses synth and rock, imaginative costume choices from Bobbie Mannix for creatively named gangs, and a cast of then-unknown actors who have gone on to become household names. Can you dig it? We've got a heavy rep, so press play to check out our little piece of turf.

The Finale: Xenophon's Anabasis, book 7 of 7.  Highlights for the High Life. In this episode:-Sailing to Byzantium -How to Tame a Mob -Spartan Indecision-Drinking more wine from big horns with dangerous men -Raiding with Thracians -Fire attack at night -How to lose a good friend for good -What all gyms should aspire to be like -The importance of keeping your horse 

"Warriors, come out and play!" So goes the iconic line from this legendary violent retelling of an Ancient Greek tale.  Based on "The Anabasis" by Xenophon which tells the story of a band of Greek mercenaries trying to make their way home through enemy territories, "The Warriors" (1979) transposes this tale to the tough worlds of New York City in the 1970s.  Instead of a band of Greek mercenaries, it's a street gang making their way home through enemy neighborhoods. Civic leaders feared the film would cause violence.  Is it still dangerous after all these years?Find out as Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dr. Gary Stickel roam with The Warriors.

Highlights from Book 6 of Xenophon's AnabasisIn this episode:-Drinking parties, War Dances -Why every modern gentleman should sacrifice to the gods-How to gracefully decline a promotion -Hercules in Hell-On keeping the Fellowship together-Isolated sheep rustling incident threatens to start an international war -The value of a cool head 

Lysander is a troubling figure. As a child, he was a charity case who excelled his more affluent peers; he never cared for wealth, and yet overlooked the rapaciousness of his friends, allowing money and luxury into Sparta, corrupting it. He liberated the Greek world from the yoke of Athenian imperialism, but then installed oligarchic juntas to rule with an iron fist. He conquered Athens itself, but campaigned at a war council to spare the city from destruction. But once inside the city, he threatened the Athenians with extermination if they didn't obey him. Alex Petkas, the host of the Cost of Glory podcast, joins Jonathan and Ryan in discussing Plutarch's account of the extraordinary Lysander.Alex Petkas's Cost of Glory podcast (Lysander 1): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lysander-1-death-of-democracy/id1580153815?i=1000565510664Ancient Life Coach: https://ancientlifecoach.com/Speak Lead Retreat: https://ancientlifecoach.com/retreat/Herodotus' Histories: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781400031146Isocrates' Evagoras: https://amzn.to/40NyCaPPindar's Olympian Odes: https://amzn.to/429sk6mPlutarch's Parallel Lives, including Lysander (Loeb edition): https://amzn.to/3HjDnC8Plutarch's Parallel Lives, including Lysander (Penguin edition): https://amzn.to/44amYK5University of Chicago's Penelope Parallel Lives: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/home.htmlEuripides' Electra: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780226035598Xenophon's Anabasis: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780307906854Andrew Roberts's Napoleon: A Life: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780143127857Sean McMeekin's Stalin's War: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781541672796Alex Petkas's Cost of Glory episode 1 on the Anabasis: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/xenophon-anabasis-i-power-highlights/id1580153815?i=1000597494893Xenophon's Hellenika: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781400034765Steven Pressfield's Tides of War: https://amzn.to/3oQF9EqPaul Cartledge's Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta: https://amzn.to/3LDaFi3New Humanists is brought to you by the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/Links may have referral codes, which earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. We encourage you, when possible, to use Bookshop.org for your book purchases, an online bookstore which supports local bookstores.Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Xenophon, Anabasis 5.  #1 Highlights for Life Success.  In this episode: -Fending off chaos in all its forms -Dealing with a power vacuum -The Source of the Golden Fleece -The BEST way to spend Sacred Funds (Hint: Real Estate) -Artemis and her 7 wonders Temple at Ephesus (cult statue here)-Sampling Local Delicacies (as always) -Pale white children as wide as they are tall-Dreams of city founding-The metaphysical basis of international law-Xenophon, hubris, and soldier punchingDon't forget to follow @costofglory on Twitter for updates and additional takeawaysAlso - Leave a review if you like this!

This interview is from 3-14-23 Haakon Sjogren, Marcus Corich and Paul Anop of NECROPANTHER joins the podcast to talk about NECROPANTHER's fourth full-length album, entitled Betrayal out now. We also talk about how the album intertwines with the 1979 movie the warriors, and sourced the warriors book, Anabasis by Xenophon also sourced from Moby Dick and Paradise Lost which was an influence on the book of the warriors. Paul also talks about playing leads in the past but first time having guitar solos on the "Betrayal' album. Also check out singles "One and Only" and "Into Danger"   SUBSCRIBE to BODS Mayhem Hour YouTube channel AND it's available on all streaming platforms wherever you listen to podcasts. 

Het is de week van de klassieken! Dus tijd voor een classic Tim en Paul aflevering. Vandaag duiken we verder terug de tijd in dan ooit tevoren. We zijn terug op het Turfdraagsterpad, dit keer om te praten met dr. Luuk Huitink. Hij vertel ons over de avonturen van Xenophon, het begin van geschiedschrijving, een gezellige wandeltocht naar Baghdad én elektrische auto's. Maar wie is die Xenophon eigenlijk? En bestond hij wel echt? Dáar gaan we vandaag achter komen. Meer weten?: Een recente algemene inleiding op Xenophon en de Anabasis kun je vinden in: L. Huitink & T. Rood, Xenophon. Anabasis, Book III, Cambridge 2019. De Anabasis is in het Nederlands vertaald als: Xenofon, Anabasis: De tocht van de tienduizend, vertaald door Gerard Koolschijn en ingeleid door Nicolaas Matsier, 5e druk Athenaeum 2013. De Hellenica is in het Nederlands vertaald als: Xenofon, Griekse oorlogen, vertaald door Gerard Koolschijn, Athenaeum 1990. De Cyropaedia heeft twee recente Nederlandse vertalingen: Xenofon, De vorming van Cyrus de Grote, vertaald door John Nagelkerken, 2e editie Damon 2021; en Xenophon, Cyrus de Grote: Een studie in leiderschap, vertaald door Marianne van der Weiden, Ta grammata 2022.

Heute lernt Sebbo etwas über griechische Hopliten und die klassische Epoche der griechischen Antike. Als Anschauungsmaterial benutzen wir die   Söldner-Hopliten von Victrix. Als Sternchen-Thema beschäftigen sich Christian und Sebbo mit der Anabasis, dem "Zug der Zehntausend", der Schlacht von Leuktra und der "Unsterblichen Schar" Thebens.

Xenophon's Anabasis 4: The best parts of all, with analysis for action. Thanks to our sponsor, Ancient Language Institute!https://ancientlanguage.com/register-greek/--Apply for the Ancient Life Coach Speak Lead Retreat!ancientlifecoach.com/retreatIn this Episode:-How to cross a guarded river-The mindset of people who push through massive stress and pain-Distinguishing yourself as middle management-The Sea, The Sea-Lawrence of Arabia, Xenophon admirer-Psychedelic Bees

Xenophon's Anabasis Book 3 - The best highlights, the Power Highlights. For Power Listeners.In this Episode:-The power of public speaking-What Socrates told Xenophon before he left-Xenophon's inner monologue in GREEK-Motivating your managers-Finding resources you didn't know you had-Lost cities of Mesopotamia-Goat and donkey balloons-The Original Kurds?Apply to join us in Rome for the Speak Lead Retreat!  July 16-23 ancientlifecoach.com/retreatAmazon links (Click, Buy -> Support this show!)David Allen, Getting Things Donehttps://amzn.to/3kIRpoHJocko's Extreme Ownership:https://amzn.to/3SCmnLXLandmark Xenophon's Anabasishttps://amzn.to/3HLGAegOld Penguin Anabasis:https://amzn.to/3HLGAegLoeb Edition:https://amzn.to/3HLGAegKey CharactersXenophonProxenus (+)CheirisophusMithradatesSome Hater from BoeotiaA Rhodian Balloon smithThe CarduchiansPlaces: NimrudNineveh (Mosul)Tigris River

What's in a name? When Richard and I began this week's episode, we were struck by the wealth of information packed into two verses. Through the simple arrangement of people and places, Luke leaves a trail of names, like breadcrumbs, along a path that moves all through the Bible, well beyond his gospel. In this sense, the beginning of chapter 3 is like an easter egg, a road sign that pops up along the way and screams, “hey you,” keep hearing the story because there is a bigger story in motion. There are plenty of functional names to unpack at the beginning of Luke 3. But one stands out among the pack: Lysanias. It appears only once, which indicates its significance. In translation, it means the release of sorrow. However, what's far more curious, especially in the passage's context (and something we did not know at the time of recording), is that Lysanias was also a general of Alexander the Great, mentioned at least twice in Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander. Sometimes it's worth paying attention to the details. Richard and I discuss Luke 3:1-2. (Episode 470) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Best highlights, power quotes, and notes from a leadership and adventure classic, Xenophon's Anabasis 1.  Featuring:-Deciding who won a battle-How to deceive the wise-The noble and the base among Greek leaders-The hazards of date palm wineAmazon links (Click, Buy -> Support this show!)Landmark Xenophon's Anabasishttps://amzn.to/3HLGAegOld Penguin Anabasis:https://amzn.to/3HLGAegLoeb Edition:https://amzn.to/3HLGAegCharactersCyrus The Younger (RIP)AriaeusPhalinus of PersiaCtesias of CnidosClearchus of Laconia/SpartaXenophon of AthensProxenus of Thebes/BoeotiaMenon of ThessalyTissaphernesAtaxerxes, King of Kings

Pete takes Ryan back to ancient Persia to discover the Levantine nation of Syria. Uncover how ancient Persian roads influenced the US Post Office of today, and follow in the footsteps of a remarkable man who found himself surrounded by enemies, thousands of miles from home and needing to cross a snowy mountain range... in sandals! Also featuring tea, cakes and mad honey.   Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:02 Orientation 13:17 History 23:16 The Extra Mile 28:47 Trevor from The History of Persia Podcast 39:22 The Royal Road 46:53 Xenophon 59:27 Wrap-up 01:00:36 Derzolation 01:02:51 Outro   Links: National Anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DA3I_OTKqY Full text of Xenophon's Anabasis: https://tinyurl.com/4s8ura25 Website for the History of Persia Podcast: https://historyofpersiapodcast.com/   Contact: http://hhepodcast.com https://linktr.ee/hhepodcast

Best highlights, power quotes, and notes from a leadership and adventure classic, Xenophon's Anabasis 1.  Featuring:-How to get people to take real risks on your behalf-How ancient army logistics worked-Love affairs with foreign queens-Hunting the Ostrich-Qualities of good leaders, in Xenophon's opinionAmazon links (Click, Buy -> Support this show!)Landmark Xenophon's Anabasishttps://amzn.to/3HLGAegOld Penguin Anabasis:https://amzn.to/3HLGAegLoeb Edition:https://amzn.to/3HLGAegKey People:Prince CyrusKing ArtaxerxesTissaphernes (satrap)Epyaxa (Queen of Cilicia)XenophonClearchusTissaphernessacred fishbustardswild assesostrichesKey PlacesCiliciaTarsusCunaxa (Battle of)Euphrates RiverPhrygiaLydiaThrace

Im Jahr 401 vor der Zeitenwende macht sich ein großes Heer griechischer Söldner auf den Weg ins persische Großreich. Mit dabei: der Schriftsteller Xenophon. Eigentlich wurden sie angeworben, um einen Aufstand niederzuschlagen, doch nach Monaten mühsamen Fußmarsches stehen sie stattdessen dem gewaltigen Heer des Großkönigs Artaxerxes II. gegenüber. Obwohl die Griechen davon überzeugt sind, die Schlacht gewonnen zu haben, ist die Lage bald aussichtslos und müssen sie nun um ihr Leben fürchten. Und so machen sie sich auf, um ans Schwarze Meer zu flüchten. Wir sprechen in dieser Folge über den Zug der Zehntausend, wie Xenophon zum Heerführer wurde und mit der „Anabasis“ eines der meistgelesenen Bücher der Antike verfasste. LITERATUR Wolfgang Will, Der Zug der 10000: Die unglaubliche Geschichte eines antiken Söldnerheeres //Aus unserer Werbung Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/GeschichtenausderGeschichte NEU: Wer unsere Folgen lieber ohne Werbung anhören will, kann das über eine kleine Unterstützung auf Steady oder ein Abo des GeschichteFM-Plus Kanals auf Apple Podcasts tun. Wir freuen uns, wenn ihr den Podcast bei Apple Podcasts rezensiert oder bewertet. Für alle jene, die kein iTunes verwenden, gibt's die Podcastplattform Panoptikum, auch dort könnt ihr uns empfehlen, bewerten aber auch euer ganz eigenes Podcasthörer:innenprofil erstellen. Wir freuen uns auch immer, wenn ihr euren Freundinnen und Freunden, Kolleginnen und Kollegen oder sogar Nachbarinnen und Nachbarn von uns erzählt!

χαίρετε πάντες! This week we are talking about Xenophon's Anabasis, a great book for intermediate student's to read as they gain confidence with the language... but beware! πῶς λέγεται spoiler alert ἑλληνιστί; Enjoy the episode! Josep & Leandros Follow the podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeighDCobley On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellenizdein/ Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/604916774052809 Become a patron to listen to episodes in advance as well as tons of other totally original Greek learning resources, including my Ancient Greek novella "Generation Omega": https://www.patreon.com/Hellenizdein?fan_landing=true

This week's book contains mercenaries, marching armies, treachery, and a dangerous retreat. Part military history and part philosophical study, the "Anabasis" by Xenophon has been studied and enjoyed for a variety of reasons. We delve into how a book written 2,500 years ago can feel so present, and the many interesting things Xenophon has to say about the nature of leadership and military command. Enjoyable discussion about a rich text, ending in Matt pleading for an oracle. Enjoy! Contact Us: Instagram @therewillbbooks Twitter @therewillbbooks Email willbebooks@gmail.com Goodreads: Therewillbebooks ko-fi.com/therewillbbooks patreon.com/therewillbbooks

The man from a small Greek island responsible for conquering half the known world during is era also was also quite the orator. He delivers a speech to his war weary and even mutinous men. Strider dives into the beginning of the final chapter of Alexander's 12 year, "anabasis." Don't Wait. Check your rate today at UPSTART.COM/DANK Pateron.com/striderwilson Sources: Brittanica.com , Wikisource.org ‘The Anabasis of Alexander: The History of The Wars and Conquest of Alexander the Great' by Aarian Translator Edward James Chinnock 1884, Worldhistory.org, Jstor.org ‘The Cultural Context of Alexander's Speech at Opis' by D. Brendan Nagle, Livescience.com, Greecehighdefinition.com ‘Alexander the Great Speech: Opis Mutiny, The Greatest Speech In History(Video)' See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Despite the defeat at Raphia, Antiochus III was not discouraged from further conquests. After dealing with his final rival Achaeus in 213, the Seleucid king would lead a massive expeditionary force into Asia, an anabasis, intending to assert his authority over the wayward satrapies and kingdoms that splintered away during the troubled reigns of his predecessors. Marching from Armenia to India between 212-205, Antiochus and his army would battle the likes of Arsaces II of Parthia and Euthydemus I of Greco-Bactria as they restored the borders of the empire, allowing Antiochus to claim the epithet Megas (the Great) as a testament to his power. Episode 073 Notes: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/2022/06/04/073-the-seleucid-empire-the-anabasis-of-antiochus-the-great/) Episode 073 Transcript: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/073-the-seleucid-empire-the-anabasis-of-antiochus-iii.pdf) Family Tree: The Reign of Antiochus III (Part One) (https://hellenisticagepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/reign-of-antiochus-iii-part-1-1.pdf) Social Media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/HellenisticPod) Facebook (www.facebook.com/hellenisticagepodcast/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hellenistic_age_podcast/) Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/hellenisticagepodcast) Show Merchandise: Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/HellenisticAgePod) Redbubble (https://www.redbubble.com/people/HellenisticPod/shop?asc=u) Donations: Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/hellenisticagepodcast) Amazon Book Wish List (https://tinyurl.com/vfw6ask)

In the last book of Xenophon's "Anabasis" we look back at the three challenges Xenophon has experienced: going to war alongside Cyrus, marching the Greeks through enemy territory, and the army by the sea trying to get home. We explore what Xenophon wants and the idea of leadership in these three situations and ask "what's the difference between a military leader and a political leader?" You can support our work exploring classical literature for veterans by donating at combatandclassics.org. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-wilson5/support

How are dance parties related to diplomacy? The schisms continue in Book VI within the greek army, but some schisms seem better than others. Some try to make friends with the locals, some go for help, some go raiding. Xenophon turns down the generalship of the whole army. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-wilson5/support

The rebels have arrived at the Black Sea, but through betrayal and bad decisions, things go awry..... Xenophon leads an expedition for provisions, but the ships they are waiting for don't show up. We flash forward to Xenophon the writer, who's bought some land in exile and wants to build a temple to Artemis. Xenophon toys with the idea of founding a city where the army is camped - who knows if he was serious or if this was some weird diplomatic move. Move bickering and playing the blame game continue until Xenophon gives a speech and the army is (apparently) purified. Our opening question is: when an army doesn't have an enemy, do they fight themselves? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-wilson5/support

57: Watership Down and the Classics Written by Andrew Stevens Full references: Richard Adam's biographical note in the Puffin edition of Watership Down describes him as having “more than a passing acquaintance with the giants of English literature”(1)… ...The three great epics...Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid do seem to feature throughout the novel, as does the wider Greek Epic cycle...There are...scholarly works on structural similarities and narrative technique between the poems and the novel, Chapter 2 of Dr Hannah Parry's 2016 thesis “The Aeneid with Rabbits: Children's Fantasy as Modern Epic”(2) is one fine example.... Chapter 1 opens with a quote from Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the story of the Greek king's...homecoming after the sack of Troy...the destruction of a former home also matches how Aeneas tells his story to Queen Dido in Virgil's Aeneid (3). ...the available evidence strongly suggests that the English translation of the Agamemnon excerpt is Adams' own (4). ...The Warren of the Snares has been likened to the Lotus Eaters from the Odyssey (5) ...The Anabasis has been described by Michael Flower as the “master-plot” of the escape story in Western literature (6)... ...A parallel exists between the Anabasis and Watership Down... army vanguard reaches the summit of Mount Theces...They cry out “Thalatta! Thalatta!” “The Sea! The Sea”... (7), an event alone that has inspired entire scholarly works on its cultural significance (8). When Dandelion...cries out “You can see the whole world” (9), this is their Thalatta moment. Classical culture and history combine in the character of Bigwig...Before the battle, some sources state that the Persians invited the Greeks to lay down their arms and have their lives spared. They are said to have replied simply “Molon labe – come and get them” (10)...when Bigwig invites his Russian Warship of an opponent to “silflay hraka, u embleer rah”(11), his humour is crude, perfect and feels very Spartan. It is easy to draw a comparison of Hazel...and Bigwig...to Odysseus and Ajax in the Little Iliad...Bigwig's contempt for the idea of Hazel being superior to him in Chapter 11 (12), shows his view at this point that a strong rabbit could never answer to a weaker one. At the novels' climax, we learn in his explosive, revelatory statement of “My Chief Rabbit has told me to defend this run …”(13) that, unlike Ajax, Bigwig has accepted his and his rah's positions... A final note on Classics in Watership Down is the title of Chapter 48 (14). Dea ex Machina means “Goddess out of the Machine”... 1 WD p.479 2 Parry, pp.33-53 3 Parry, p.39 4 Bridgman, pp.161-2 5 Parry, pp.40-2 6 Flower, p.47 7 Anab. 4.7.11 8 Rood, 2004 9 WD, p.134 10 Cartledge, p.142 11 WD p.451 12 WD, p.68 13 WD p.454 14 WD, p.458 Primary sources Adams, Richard (1972) Watership Down, Puffin Books, Harmondsworth Xenophon Anabasis in Waterfield, R. (trans.) (2005) The Expedition of Cyrus, Oxford, Oxford Worlds' Classics Secondary sources Bridgman, J. (1990) The Writing, Publication and Literary Context of Watership Down. PhD Thesis, University College London, London https://www.proquest.com/docview/1924932476/3D1CFE091B584D0APQ/4 Cartledge, P. (2006) Thermopylae – The Battle that Changed the World, London, Macmillan Flower, M.A (2012) Xenophon's Anabasis or The Expedition of Cyrus, Oxford, Oxford University Press Parry, H (2016) The Aeneid with Rabbits: Children's Fantasy as Modern Epic. PhD Thesis, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/5222 Rood, T. (2004) The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination, London, Duckworth Overlook Further Reading Hardwick, L. (2003) Reception Studies: New Surveys in the Classics, Greece & Rome, New Surveys in the Classics, no. 33, Oxford, Oxford University Press Andrew Stevens, March 2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/watershipdown/message

Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu a publicat recent romanul „Abraxas”, la Editura Polirom, o carte a memoriei, scrisă cu o forță narativă aluvionară, avîndu-l în centru pe Michi Lucescu. Aflat în preajma vîrstei de 40 de ani, lector la Facultatea de Istorie, despărțit de soție și de cei doi copii, Michi Lucescu își revizitează diferite etape ale vieții, ale ratării, cu ajutorul unei construcții de tip „arta memoriei”, așa cum a învățat din textele anticilor. Povestea îl urmărește pe Michi din copilărie pînă la vîrsta adultă, într-un flux narativ în care se împletesc figurile memorabile și teribile din familia sa și cîteva fire din trecutul îndepărtat, povestea împăratului Frederic Barbarossa, a poetului Ilarie Voronca, a lui Iacov Levi Moreno și a poetului american Delmore Schwartz. Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu a mai publicat romanele „Copilăria lui Kaspar Hauser”, „Caragiale. scrisoarea pierdută” și volumele de poezie „Apoi, după bătălie, ne-am tras sufletul”, „anaBASis” și „Adorabilii etrusci”. O emisiune de Adela Greceanu. Un produs Radio România Cultural. 

In this second part of Tristan's explainer, he takes us right into the heart of the battle dubbed the Persian Thermopylae. Listen as Alexander begins a full-blooded assault on the Persian Gates, and find out how this battle for the Persian heartlands ended. Preorder Tristan's book today: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Perdiccas-Years-323320-BC-Hardback/p/20188 Jona Lendering article: https://www.livius.org/articles/battle/persian-gate-330-bce/ The narrow Yasuj pass. If you'd like to learn more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit. To download, go to Android or Apple store. If you're enjoying this podcast and looking for more fascinating The Ancients content then subscribe to our Ancients newsletter. Follow this link.Further ReadingHammond, M. (2013), tr., Arrian: Alexander the Great, the Anabasis and the Indica, Oxford.Shepherd, R. (1793), tr., Polyaenus: Stratagems of War, Chicago.Waterfield, R. (2019), tr., Diodorus of Sicily: The Library, Books 16-20, Oxford.Yardley, J. (2001), tr., The History of Alexander: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Chatham.Bosworth, A. B. (1988), Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great, Cambridge.Engels, D. W. (1978), Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, London.Heckel, W. (2006), Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great, Oxford. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The classic story, from 2,500 years ago, of how determination and vitalism led to success for men in a desperate situation. With lessons, no surprise, for today. The written version of this review can be found here. We strongly encourage, in these days of censorship and deplatforming, all readers to bookmark our main site (https://www.theworthyhouse.com). You can also subscribe for email notifications. The Worthy House does not solicit donations or other support, or have ads. 

Xenophon and the Greek host begin their march north, out of the Persian king's territory, through the icy highlands of Armenia, until at last, from a mountain, they catch sight of "the sea! the sea!" So how do the demands of the terrain and weather impose necessities on the Greeks, and how does Xenophon deal with these necessities? Is this easier, or harder, than dealing with human beings, who can be rougher than the terrain and colder than the snow? Do we see evidence of Xenophon's humanity in this book, or of his inhumanity? Join Brian, Shilo, and Jeff as they discuss these questions, and attack the gaps rather than the surfaces! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-wilson5/support

Shane Brennan, associate professor of history at the American University in Dubai, joins the show to discuss the new Landmark edition of Xenophon's Anabasis, which he co-edits. The Anabasis, long unjustly neglected, is Xenophon's classic memoir of war and command in the lands which today constitute Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. Times 01:26 - Introduction 05:07 - Who was Xenophon 06:09 - Late 5th century Athens 09:07 - Prince Cyrus of Persia 12:17 - The Greek's position and Xenophon's rise to leadership 16:46 - The army's path though Syria, Iraq and Turkey 20:42 - The end of Xenophon's expedition 23:42 - Xenophon's lessons for military leadership today 27:40 - Importance of Xenophon's work Recorded December 9, 2021

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” —Napoleon BonaparteHere in Episode 35, we take closer look at two perhaps lesser-known great leaders in history. When all hope was lost and the odds were stacked against them, they defied all probability and led their men safely home. These are two of the most fascinating adventure stories ever told – one on land and one on water and what's even better… the truth is stranger than fiction. If you were to see these stories on the big screen, you'd probably say, “no way, that's impossible.” But Sir Ernest Shackleton and Xenophon did the extraordinary and both lived to tell their tales. Episode Notes:Shackleton's final Antarctic expedition of 1921-22 had imprecise goals but one of them was a possible circumnavigation of the continent. Books:Anabasis by XenophonA History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by J.B. Bury and Russell MeiggsEndurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred LansingSouth! The Journey of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Sir Ernest Shackleton Film: Shackleton (2012) with Kenneth Branagh

In this classic tale of 1950s Americana (1990s Minnesota), Evan and his partner in crime Jeremie get obsessed with pool and simultaneously fall for the "spunky" Becky Azores. Will they break the bro code? Will they fistfight for her honor? Will she reject both of them? Will Evan "iterate" blow jobs? Join us for a story of dishonor and/or honor and maybe sex. Additionally: The gang sings the praises of the Anabasis, Willie discovers that drinking too much can be bad, Gordon addresses charges of stolen valor, Will describes a terrible date that is somehow not his fault, Aubrey plays it polite, and we discover where Evan learned to hate an honest days work. Pop Culture Discussed: The Color of Money, Ellen Degeneres' Brother, The Anabasis, John Cusack + High Fidelity, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, John F. Kennedy, The Phantom of The Opera, The Roches.

The Greek army has been beheaded: all its generals are dead. The remaining soldiers lie down on the ground in despair. And Xenophon has a dream, one that somehow leads him to reanimate the Greeks and start them on their march north out of Persia. Brian, Shilo, and Jeff talk about how Xenophon revives the troops, why he's in Persia, and whether he disobeyed Socrates' advice to go there. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-wilson5/support

06:03 Как облака14:18 Танцующие скелеты27:08 Надмирность34:33 ГлоссолалияМаша Аникеева, Вадим Макеев, Слава ОлиянчукDead Can Dance — AnastasisАльбом «Anastasis» в Apple Music, Яндекс.Музыке, Spotify, Tidal, DiscogsОфициальный сайтDCD в ТвиттереDCD в ФейсбукеDCD в ИнстаграмеСтраница на 4ADDead Can Dance — ACT II: The MountainChildren Of The Sun Live at the Village on KCRWSong to the Siren на KEXPAlcest — AwayПесниDead Can Dance — OpiumDead Can Dance — Children of the SunDead Can Dance — AnabasisВсе права на музыку принадлежат законным правообладателям. Запись и сведение — Вадим Макеев. Джингл — Дэн Лебовиц. Фотография на обложке — Anastasia.

At the beginning of Book 2, Cyrus is dead, but the Greeks are victorious. By the end of Book 2, every Greek general is dead through Tissaphernes' treachery. How did this happen? What does this have to do with Clearchus, the de facto Greek general, and in particular with his piety? And what is the hidden meaning of... palm trees? Join us for the next episode in our reading of Xenophon, in which the author himself makes another brief appearance! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-wilson5/support

Brian, Shilo, and Jeff start their reading of Xenophon's great adventure story, "The Anabasis" -- or "Ascent" -- "of Cyrus." We have a new Cyrus; is he the same as the old Cyrus? How is Cyrus the Younger different from Cyrus the Great? (Is he Cyrus the not-so-Great?) And whose ascent is Xenophon's title talking about, since Cyrus the not-so-Great (spoiler alert!) dies at the end of Book 1? Lastly, what is Xenophon, that other student of Socrates, doing in Cyrus' army of ten thousand Greek mercenaries? Answers to all these questions, and more! Oh, and if you're wondering where Episodes 51 and 52 are, they're part of our half-hour Iliad series. Watch for it; these episodes will drop soon. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-wilson5/support

Den som inte kan minnas sitt förflutna är dömd att upprepa det, sägs det. Men historien och kulturarvet kan användas till mycket och allt är inte gott. Författaren Willy Kyrklund fick den klassiska bildningen med modersmjölken, men hans inställning till den förändrades av kriget. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Om du har läst Odyssén minns du antagligen inte Elpënor, en av det arkaiska hjälteeposets många mindre heroiska bifigurer som glimtar fram några gånger under den långa irrfärden över havet från Troja i Mindre Asien till Ithaka vid Hellas västra kust. Elpënor är en av Odysseus meniga män, och dyker upp första gången i åttonde sången när han bakfull och yrvaken ramlar ner från ett tak och bryter nacken, sedan i den elfte när den mångförslagne Odysseus träffar på honom i dödsriket, dit hjälten har nedstigit i sällskap med den blinde siaren Teiresias. Enligt Homeros ska Elpënor vid det tillfället ha "pladdrat mycket" och bett Odysseus om att få en hederlig begravning. Det får han, och med det är han ute ur historien. Den arme Elpënor får aldrig återse sitt Ithaka, och just som en av de skugglika och bortglömda gestalterna i eposets marginaler är det han lyfts fram i Willy Kyrklunds roman från 1986. Eller vad man nu ska kalla den; Elpënor är en av Kyrklunds vackraste och märkligaste böcker, därtill den kanske mest politiska ja, om man nu alls kan tala om politik i detta författarskap, som så i grunden motsatte sig alla ideologiska program. Kyrklunds Elpënor är allt "Odyssén" inte är, antiheroisk, sorgsen och skeptisk. En motodyssé kort sagt Elpënor har dragits med i det trojanska kriget i ungdomligt oförstånd och nu vill han bara hem, för att äntligen få börja leva sitt verkliga liv, sitt fredsliv. Den storskrävlande hjältens episka överdrifter ger han inte mycket för. Bokens antiheroism syns också i formen Kyrklund undviker den homeriska hexametern och skriver sin berättelse dels på prosa, dels på elegiskt distikon, ett versmått som under antiken bara användes för gravskrifter och sorgekväden. Därmed visade detta antika arv, som Kyrklund såg det, sitt rätta ansikte Det finns en konkret historisk bakgrund till detta ställningstagande. Litteraturvetaren Thomas Sjösvärd citerar i sin bok om "Willy Kyrklund och det grekiska", En himmel av sten, ett föredrag som Kyrklund höll 1987, kallat Tal till grekvänner, där han berättade om sitt förhållande till den klassiska grekiska kulturen och det grekiska språket. Kyrklund föddes 1921 och växte upp i en svensktalande familj i Finland, i ett land där såren efter inbördeskriget fortfarande låg öppna och i en borgerlig miljö där de klassiska språken och kulturerna var en självklar del av utbildningen. När andra världskriget bröt ut var han knappt tjugo år gammal och fick uppleva hur det klassiska antika arvet engagerades i den ideologiska kampen. "Åter stod striden vid Thermopyle", skriver han: "Finlands folk hand i hand med storebror Tyskland skulle försvara den västerländska civilisationen mot anstormande ryska horder.// Under den store ledaren Adolf Hitler skulle civilisationen segra och barbarerna tvingas på knä." Därmed visade detta antika arv, som Kyrklund såg det, sitt rätta ansikte, och hans författarskap formades enligt Sjösvärd mycket som en kamp för att göra upp med och återerövra det. Mot myternas idealism odlade han konsekvent en antimytisk realism, men också ett intresse för östliga språk och kulturer som han såg som ett led i samma arbete. Kyrklund studerade ryska och kinesiska, arabiska, persiska och sanskrit och gestaltade sina intryck i originella skapelser som boken om den kinesiske vishetsläraren Mästaren Ma, den iranska reseskildringen Till Tabbas, eller collageromanen Polyfem förvandlad, där grekisk och vedisk mytologi får korsbefrukta varandra. Frågan hur det grekiska påverkade Willy Kyrklund kan alltså inte besvaras utan följdfrågan, hur Willy Kyrklund påverkade det grekiska. Just denna ömsesidiga påverkan, denna evigt dubbla rörelse är förstås det som driver litteraturhistorien framåt. I Sverige har den klassiska grekiska kulturen varit en helt avgörande motor i den utvecklingen, från Georg Stiernhielms prunkande hexameter i Hercules, över Viktor Rydberg och Vilhelm Ekelund till modernistiska poeter som Hjalmar Gullberg och Gunnar Ekelöf, fram till nutida författare som Lotta Lotass, Jesper Svenbro och Theodor Kallifatides. I Slaget om Troja låter Kallifatides hedersvåldet i Iliaden utspela sig mot fonden av en tyskockuperad grekisk by i andra världskrigets slutskede, där berättaren drabbas av sin första förälskelse medan hans lärarinna återberättar handlingen i Homeros epos "den starkaste antikrigsdikt som har skrivits", hävdar Kallifatides i sitt efterord. Det beror förstås på hur man läser den. Och vem. Den moderna litteraturen har använt sig av den klassiska som något att ta spjärn mot i ett mer allmänt antiheroiskt och realistiskt estetiskt projekt. För svensk del står förstås Eyvind Johnsons stora roman Strändernas svall från 1946 som en milstolpe här en sorts antiodyssé den också, där den irrande, slitne Odysseus motsträvigt drivs mot hemkomstens slutgiltiga uppgörelse. Mindre känd, men väl så intressant i det här sammanhanget, är Johnsons roman Molnen över Metapontion från 1957. Här blir världskrigets förbrytelser istället klangbotten för den tröstlösa berättelsen i Xenofons Anabasis, historien om den grekiska armé av legoknektar som i slutet av 400-talet slog följe med den persiske usurpatorn Kyros på hans misslyckade fälttåg genom Mindre Asien. Härens hopplösa marsch och nesliga återtåg skildras växelvis av en fängslad judisk arkeologiprofessor i ett av tyskarnas koncentrationsläger och i en serie historiska fantasier där en av expeditionens överlevare ser tillbaka på sitt liv från exilen i en grekisk koloni i Syditalien. Hit kommer också, i romanens 1950-tal, en svensk diplomat som fått sitt liv söndertrasat av krigets härjningar, på en resa som väcker liv inte bara i hans egna krigsminnen utan även i professorns berättelser om Kyrosexpeditionens umbäranden och övergrepp. Den enda möjliga slutsatsen av historien är pacifistisk Professorn, skriver Johnson, kunde i koncentrationslägerbarackens halvmörker lyfta huvudet "som om han gjorde en stor upptäckt just nu, just då" "Och har ni tänkt på" sade han "att de med levde?" Vad Johnson vill suggerera fram är denna känsla av samtidighet med det förflutna "just nu, just då" insikten att människornas villkor förblir i stort desamma genom årtusendena och att enda skälet att befatta sig med det så kallade kulturarvet är att vi ska förstå det. Den enda möjliga slutsatsen av historien är pacifistisk. Om Iliaden författades som en "antikrigsdikt" eller ej spelar alltså mindre roll den måste bli det. Som också Willy Kyrklund såg: ett kulturarv som mister kontakten med de mänskliga grundvillkoren, som isolerar sig bland ideal och hjältedåd och vägrar lyssna till de besegrades berättelser, kan till slut bli bränsle för vilka destruktiva katastrofer som helst. Ett sådant arv måste skingras, för att kunna samlas hop på nytt. Både Kyrklund och Eyvind Johnson formulerade sin antiheroism i skenet av andra världskriget, och från det kriget skiljer oss numera snart en människoålder. Av dem som minns det finns snart inte många kvar, och arvet från det klassiska Grekland måste i framtiden tolkas i ljuset av andra konflikter, andra krig för att hålla heroismen och militarismen på armlängds avstånd. I en värld som återigen tycks ha allt svårare att stå emot de primitiva reflexerna att dra upp gränser mellan "civilisation" och "barbari" är det kanske det bästa vi kan göra, att läsa Iliaden och Anabasis på nytt. Försöka lyssna till Elpënors röst i Odyssén. Dan Jönsson Litteratur i urval: Elpënor av Willy Kyrklund (Alba, 1986) En himmel av sten: Willy Kyrklund och det grekiska av Thomas Sjösvärd (Ellerströms, 2020) Tal till grekvänner ingår i Willy Kyrklund: Berättelser, dramatik, anföranden, artiklar (Alba, 1996) Molnen över Metapontion : en roman. Av Eyvind Johnson (Bonnier 1957 och Themis 2008)

After the ApocalypseA pandemic survival storySeason one, Episode Fourteen, “Run”Janet ran......and the obscenities pouring from the man she had just left bleeding in the dirt faded away…like the man himself. He was nothing. He was a threat that had been dealt with. Like she always dealt with threats. She had the hard skills, built up over years of practice. She could dominate most situations. Her force of will bent others to her path. And if they didn't bend, they got run over or shoved aside. KJ the Killer. ...and she ran. ...Outro S1E14Hello my fellow survivors. How is the apocalypse treating you? This is Chris your host. And a fine Saturday morning it is up here in New England. We had a storm fly through yesterday with wind and rain and snow. I was worried about our friend Tim who has been helping with the story ideas and editing. He's been out on the Appalachian trail for 2 weeks.  He's currently passing through the area near where Janet and the old man are struggling to survive the apocalypse in our story. Imagine if a storm like this hit out in the Smoky Mountains while they're out in the trail? I'll have to see if we can work a storm into the story. When I was a teenager, I spent a week hiking in the Joyce Kilmer National Forest which is near there, a bit south.   It would have been this time of year. I remember we did get an ice storms a couple days, but you just crawl into your tent and wait it out. I remember waking up an hitting the plastic tarp overhead and the ice shattering and sliding off. But we survived. I would have been 16 and just rolling out of wrestling season, so stupid but indestructible. …Speaking of hiking adventures in the wilderness, my wife forced me to watch a movie called Into the Grizzly Maze from 2015, mostly because she likes to look at the actor James Marsden.  I'll be honest it was a silly movie about an angry Grizzly bear who likes to eat people. For some reason they talked some A-list talent into it. Billy Bob Thorton is underused as the bear hunter, think Quint from Jaws. Thomas Jane was one of the main characters, who is one of my favorite actors, you may know him as detective Joe Miller in The Expanse, which is one of the best hard space Scifi shows to come out recently. Or, for you Marvel fans, Thomas Jane was the original Punisher who went after John Travolta in 2004. God knows how these actors got caught up in the hot mess that is ‘Grizzly Maze”. I suspect a paycheck was involved. …Looking out my office window this morning, the forsythia is out and my cherry tree is about to bloom. What did you think of this week's story? Janet is discovering or rediscovering her strength and how it can help her in the Apocalypse. … I've been reading through a SciFi series called the Lost Fleet over the last year. I'm about to crack into the 8th and final book. It's a Space Epic but I also realized last night that it parallels Xenophon's Anabasis.  Bear with me, here. Xenophon was a Greek mercenary with a force of 10,000 other Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II, in 401 BC. Note this is before Rome, and a70 years before Alexander the Great. Anyhow, they march deep into Babylon and Cyrus gets killed in battle. The opposing Persian commander invites the Greek leader and his staff to a banquet to talk things out and instead has them killed. This leaves the 10,000 Greek mercenaries deep in hostile territory with no leaders. So they elect Xenophon, who leads them out of Persia and back to Greece with a tactically brilliant retreat. To make a long story short that is exactly the story line of this lost fleet series, except with spaceships. I feel like I have to reach out to the author and ask him if that was his intent. I'd be curious to know if it was or if it was just an example of how universal human stories are. If you want to delve more deeply into any of this the links are in the show notes and on an accompanying post at my Patreon page. Survivors, we are about to crack 4,00 downloads, which is good, but we can do better! I need your help. I need you to like the show, post a review and, most importantly, tell 3 friends about it. Please share the show on social. I really want to start publishing weekly, but I can't afford to unless I get more survivors to tune in. I'm just a guy doing what he loves, not a corporation, so I need your help. If you enjoy the story help me keep it going by contributing $5, $10, $20 to the Patreon. It is Patreon.com/aftertheapocalypse all one word. Do it now. Let's keep it going and until next time, keep surviving. …  Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Giriş Bal üreticiliği Karadeniz bölgesinde yaygın olarak yapılmaktadır. Özellikle karakovan balları bölge için hem lezzet hem de şifa kaynağı olarak görülmektedir. Ancak bu lezzet kovanda durduğu gibi durmaz. Yöre halkı bu bala ‘delibal’ ya da halk arasındaki tabirle ‘tutan bal’ der. Delibal zehirlenmesi Karadeniz kıyısında oldukça sık görülmektedir. Zehirlenme halk arasında orman gülü olarak bilinen Rhododendron bitki türlerinin özütünden yapılan ballardaki Grayanotoksin nedeniyle olmaktadır1. Toksin ihtiva eden türlerden mor çiçekli (Rhododendron ponticum) ve sarı çiçekli (Rhododendron luteum) olanlar Türkiye’de Doğu Karadeniz’in yüksek kesimlerinde geniş alanlarda yayılım gösterirler. R. ponticum Türkiye’de en sık görülen türdür ve halk arasında Komar çiçeği olarak bilinir. R. luteum Türkiye’de en sık görülen ikinci türdür ve halk arasında Zifin çiçeği olarak bilinir. R. Ponticum Türkiyedeki Dağılımı (Kaynak kitap: Orman gülleri ve Türkiye'deki doğal yayılışları, İÜ, 2004) R. Luteum Türkiyedeki Dağılımı (Kaynak kitap: Orman gülleri ve Türkiye'deki doğal yayılışları, İÜ, 2004) Delibal Tarihçesi Bu çiçeklerden elde edilen ballardaki toksinler ve etkileri tarihte oldukça ilginç hikayelerde kendini gösterme imkanı bulmuş ve bir derlemede de bildirilmiştir​1​. Bununla ilgili en eski kayıt M.Ö. 401 yılına dayanmaktadır. Sokrates’in de öğrencisi olan filozof, tarihçi ve aynı zamanda uzun yıllar Anadoluyu işgal etmiş Pers ordularında görev almış bir asker olan Ksenephon (M.Ö. 431-354) ‘Onbinlerin dönüşü/Anabasis’ isimli eserinde ki bu kitap yıllar sonra Büyük İskender’in İran seferlerinde faydalandığı bir rehber olacaktır, Persia dönüşü, Trabzon civarında başlarından geçen bir olayı şöyle anlatır: Colchianların dağına çıkıp yerlileri bozguna uğrattıktan sonra, Yunanlılar onların köylerinde kamp kurdular. Orada onlara garip gelen bir şey yoktu, ama arı kovanlarının çokluğu alışılmışın dışındaydı ve bu bal peteklerinden yiyen askerlerin hepsi şuurlarını kaybettiler, kustular ve ishal oldular. Ayrıca hiç birisi ayakta duramıyordu; sadece biraz yiyenler aşırı sarhoş, fazla yiyenler delirmiş gibi, bazıları ise ölüm derecesindeydi. Baldan yiyen askerlerin hepsi yere yığılıp kaldılar. Orada sanki büyük bir yenilgi olmuştu ve genel bir hüzün ve çöküntü hali vardı. Ertesi gün askerlerin hiçbiri ölmedi ve şuurlarını normale yakın şekilde geri kazandılar. Üçüncü ve dördüncü günde ise sanki bir beden eğitimi yapmışçasına ayağa kalktılar.Hastalığın klinik bulguları ve seyri belki de en güzel burada özetlenmişti… Yine de delibal ile ilgili en ilginç hikaye dünyanın ilk coğrafyacısı ve tarihçisi olarak bilinen Amasyalı Strabon (MÖ 64-MS 24)’un GEOGRAPHIKA isimli eserinde anlatılmaktadır. Kitapta henüz küçük yaşta öz annesi tarafından zehirlenmek istenen bu nedenle de zehir bilimine oldukça ilgi duyan, tarihteki ilk zehir bilimci ve biyolojik silahları kullanan kişi olan Pontus Kralı VI. Mithridates (d. MÖ 135 – ö. MÖ 63) ile ilgili anı şöyle anlatılmaktadır: Pontus Kralı VI. Mithridates, Roma İmparatorluğuna ait General Pompeyi’nin ordusu dağlık ülkeden geçerken, üç Roma bölüğünü imha etmiştir. Bunlar, ağaç dallarındaki peteklerden elde edilen deli balı kâselere koyup yol üzerine bıraktılar ve Romalı askerler bunu yiyip de bilinçlerini kaybedince, onlara saldırarak kolayca hepsini saf dışı ettiler. Bu şekilde kullanılan delibal, bazı tarihçiler tarafından tarihin ilk biyolojik silahı olarak değerlendirilir. Aristotales’e (MÖ 384-322) göre delibalın epilepsi tedavisinde kullanıldığı, Plinius (MS 23-78)’un da Pontus’u zehirli ballar diyarı olarak adlandırması işin tarihçesinin çok çok uzaklara dayandığını gösterir. Literatüre baktığımızda ise ilk bildirilen vakalar şu şekildedir: Ondokuzuncu yüzyılda Avrupa ve Kuzey Amerika’da deli bal zehirlenme vakaları bildirilmiştir. Kebler, ABD’deki deli bal zehirlenmesi vakalarını literatüre kazandırmıştır​​​2​.British Medical Journal’ın 1999 yılında yeniden...

So what did I read this year? Well, I'm all over the place. But I thought I'd take a moment to hit some of the highlights. These are in no particular order. A Gentleman in Moscow By Amor TowlesThe best book I read this year is A Gentlemen in Moscow by Amor Towles. It's just a wonderful and wonderfully crafted book. I can't say enough great things about it. It has one of the most beautiful and perfect metaphors involving a wine cellar. I literally put the book down and cursed out loud. I couldn't believe how good it was. I thought about it for weeks. But really that's a technical thing. The story is set in 1922. It's about Count Alexander Rostov, an Aristocrat who survives the Russian Revolution because he wrote a poem. Instead of being put against the wall and shot, is sentenced to house arrest, and ultimately labor, in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. This book does what great art should always do, expand your experience of being alive. I don't think I've read a better book in the last five years and I don't expect I will in the next five. For after all, if attentiveness should be measured in minutes and discipline measured in hours, then indomitability must be measured in years.But as they came to the bend in the road where the Count would normally give a snap of the reins to speed the horses home, Helena would place a hand on his arm to signal that he should slow the team—for midnight had just arrived, and a mile behind them the bells of Ascension had begun to swing, their chimes cascading over the frozen land in holy canticle. And in the pause between hymns, if one listened with care, above the pant of the horses, above the whistle of the wind, one could hear the bells of St. Michael’s ten miles away—and then the bells of St. Sofia’s even farther afield—calling one to another like flocks of geese across a pond at dusk. The bells of Ascension . . .“I’ll tell you what is convenient,” he said after a moment. “To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel an appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka—and at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.” Anna Urbanova took the cigarette from the Count’s fingers, dropped it in a water glass, and kissed him on the nose.Since the day I was born, Sofia, there was only one time when Life needed me to be in a particular place at a particular time, and that was when your mother brought you to the lobby of the Metropol. And I would not accept the Tsarship of all the Russias in exchange for being in this hotel at that hour.”The Last Good Kiss By James CrumleyTo whipsaw things another great novel that I read was The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley. Here's the beginning:When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon. I would say that Crumley is a guilty pleasure, but I don't feel guilty in the slightest. He's like Hunter S. Thompson and Raymond Chandler had a baby. After I finished that one, I plowed through two more of Crumley's books. No guilt. No regrets. The Story of the Stone by Barry HughartI read The Story of the Stone by Barry Hughart. It's the middle book of the Chronicles of Master Li and Number 10 Ox. These books aren't really like anything else. I have all three and didn't want to guzzle them. They're set in a mythical China that never was. They're wonderfully fantastic, very funny and surprisingly poignant in places. They are also something of a cautionary tale, the book struggled to get traction because it's in a genre of its own. It is fantasy, but Ancient Imperial China as a setting rather than the Middle Ages. Master Li is ancient and the smartest man in China. Number 10 Ox is the narrator and is played as the big, dumb strong guy, but there's a fair amount of unreliable narrator jazz.Big fun and great writing. Here's a couple of sloppily random snags“My surname is Li and my personal name is Kao, and there is a slight flaw in my character,” he said matter-of-factly. “You got a problem?”Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.The abbot used to say that the emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.The Immortality Key: the Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. MurareskuReading this now. The book is an investigation into what is likely the oldest and most widespread religion -- centered around a funerary rite with hallucinogenic beer and later wine. I pounced on this after listening to an author interview with Andrew Sullivan. It's an intellectual detective story, and quite good. The first thing that hooked me was that this was an explanation for the Eleusinian Mysteries, which was a ceremony that was a well-kept secret in the Greco-Roman world. People made a pilgrimage to Eleusis, fasted, drank the beer, had unbelievable visions, and raved about the experience. Saying things like it's what made civilization possible. And say it removed the fear of death. Which was described as "If you die before you die you will not die."Best guess is the beer was brewed with ergotized wheat. But nobody knows for sure. But two things are interesting about this. One, we can actually test old vessels and figure out what was in these beverages right now. And modern medical research is showing that a single dose, if you will, of psychedelic mushrooms, cures depression and PTSD and takes away the fear of death in hospice patients. Essentially inducing a religious experience with chemicals. Johns Hopkins is doing this research, not some unwashed hippy with a YouTube channel.There are real questions about the early Christian Eucharist: was hallucinogenic? Was it an extension of the Eleusian and Dionysian mysteries. But for me, the craziest thing in the book to wrap my head around has been Goebleki Tepe the oldest known temple, dated from 10,000 B.C. Which appears to have been a sacred brewery for hallucinogenic beer. And, honestly, the hallucinogenic part is the least crazy part of that last statement. The 10,000 b.c. is nuts. That's 6000 years before settled agriculture. And the temple is constructed from gigantic slabs of stone, in a way that we didn't think people could build back then. Insert Ancient Aliens nonsense if you must, but the crazy part is that it reverses what I thought the causality of civilization. It was always thought that first came agriculture, then came beer. But it seems that beer -- as a sacrament -- predates civilization by thousands of years. The other crazy thing about his book is that the brewing of sacred potions was exclusively the realm of women. Old women. Which appears to be the origin of our archetype of witches. Boil toil and trouble anyone? And that this was stamped out as the underground Christ cult grew into the state religion of Rome. There's a lot going on in this book. And if anything I've just mentioned pique your curiosity, you should definitely check it out. Hamilton by Ron ChernowAfter watching the musical on Disney +, which scarcely needs praise from me, but is unbelievably fantastic. And amazing accomplishment on many levels -- I dipped into Ron Chernow's biography, it's also great. Here's a gem that seems uniquely appropriate to the current moment.> “This misfortune affects me less than others,” he told Eliza Schuyler, “because it is not in my temper to repine at evils that are past but to endeavor to draw good out of them, and because I think our safety depends on a total change of system. And this change of system will only be produced by misfortune.”The Bobiverse Series -- Dennis E. TaylorThis series starts with "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" I listened to a bunch of these, so I don't have a bunch of quotes. Just read them all. They are just lovely, humane, funny speculative fiction. A guy is turned into a Von Neumann probe, A self-replicating device to explore the universe. And as he goes, he replicates himself, fights off aliens, struggles help save humanity -- it's tremendously positive without being trite or stupid. Really, really great. And the audiobooks are some of the best I've heard. In fact, if I had to rank the best audiobooks I've ever heard this currently comes in third Best performance is Stephen Fry reading the complete works of Sherlock Holmes. Of course, the stories are great, but Fry is a great actor who loves Holmes and puts everything he's got into the performance. I can't overstate how good this audio is. Number 2 and Best ensemble performance is 'World War Z'And third place is Ray Porter reading Dennis Taylor's Bobiverse books. Richard Stark, The JuggerI dipped back into this one. Westlake -- Stark was Donald Westlake's pen name -- always said this was the worst book of the series, but there's a moment in this one that's just shockingly powerful. I won't ruin it, but Westlake is master for a host of reasons. Here's a bit of his description Freedman led the way to his office. He was short and barrel-shaped and walked as though he’d do better if he rolled instead. His face was made of Silly Putty, plus hornrimmed glasses.The Road to Character, by David Brooks This book is really a compilation of short biographies of people of great character and how they developed themselves. It is quite good. I dug into it as research on virtues. And the book paid for itself in the introduction here's an excerpt:I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it. The Plan The plan of this book is simple. In the next chapter I will describe an older moral ecology. It was a cultural and intellectual tradition, the “crooked timber” tradition, that emphasized our own brokenness. It was a tradition that demanded humility in the face of our own limitations. But it was also a tradition that held that each of us has the power to confront our own weaknesses, tackle our own sins, and that in the course of this confrontation with ourselves we build character.My general belief is that we’ve accidentally left this moral tradition behind. Over the last several decades, we’ve lost this language, this way of organizing life. We’re not bad. But we are morally inarticulate. We’re not more selfish or venal than people in other times, but we’ve lost the understanding of how character is built.But it did occur to me that there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their desires, more aware of their own weaknesses, more intent on combatting the flaws in their own natures and turning weakness into strength. People in this tradition, I thought, are less likely to feel that every thought, feeling, and achievement should be immediately shared with the world at large.This is the way humility leads to wisdom. Montaigne once wrote, “We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with other men’s wisdom.” That’s because wisdom isn’t a body of information. It’s the moral quality of knowing what you don’t know and figuring out a way to handle your ignorance, uncertainty, and limitation.And in it I found this great quote from St. Augustine“How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws and kings can cause or cure.”Aristotle's Politics and EthicsI first read Aristotle's Ethics in college for a class on Classical Political Philosophy. And I jumped back in, as research for thinking about virtueThere is an idea that reading old books is pretentious or stuffy or dull. And that's not been my experience at all. The reason to read books like this, even when they get a little hard is because they are incredibly useful. The Greeks and Aristotle, in particular, laid the foundation stones of civilization -- or drew up the attack plan for what G.K. Chesterton calls "the whole courageous raid which we call civilization." I like that metaphor, because it suggests heroism, fragility and glory in what reveals itself to the not-so-simple work of civilizing one's self and others. This gem came from the commentary to Aristotle's Politics. Aristotle's attention is here directed chiefly towards the phenomena of "Incontinence," weakness of will or imperfect self-control. This condition was to the Greeks a matter of only too frequent experience, but it appeared to them peculiarly difficult to understand. How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge? Socrates was driven to the paradox of denying the possibility, but the facts are too strong for him. Knowledge of the right rule may be present, nay the rightfulness of its authority may be acknowledged, and yet time after time it may be disobeyed; the will may be good and yet overmastered by the force of desire, so that the act done is contrary to the agent's will.It underscores a naïveté of classical political thought -- and this is not to say that the ancients were generally naive -- this is just a mistake. Because, I think I could make a really good case that wrestling with yourself about doing what you know to be good is the defining human problem here at the beginning of the 21st century. The Good Shepherd by C.S. ForesterI have loved the Horatio Hornblower novels since I was, maybe 12. When I saw a preview of the movie Greyhound, I became aware that C.S. Forester had written this book about a commander of a convoy to Britain in the early days of WWII. Tom Hanks got this movie made, wrote the screenplay, starred in it. And that's a clue for you. Not that the movie -- it might be, I haven't seen it -- is good, but that the source material is excellent. Because somebody expended career capital to get it made. This is a tremendous book. The psychological tension and strain of command in combat is represented here in a way that I've never read before. I don't know how you could render this in film. And by that, I'm saying this book does what only books can do, very, very well. It's well-crafted and relentless in a way that doesn't lend itself to punchy quotes, but it made a huge impression on me. Fathers and Sons by Ivan TurgenevI just finished this one and I need more time to think about it. I read it primarily because another writer I greatly admire is giving a lecture on it, so I wanted to be adequately armed for the lecture. A lot of the book is concerned with what happens when you don't believe anything -- if it's even possible not to believe anything. For me, Russian novels manage to be profoundly psychological and spiritual and I can't ingest them quickly. But in it, I found this gem of a line. "Death's an old joke, but it comes fresh to every one."Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt VonnegutI have read embarrassingly little Vonnegut. I read Harrison Bergeron in school -- and it's prescience has terrified me ever since. Vonnegut is amazing. And I'm going to work my way through many more of his books. This was my start. Here's a taste.Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.And so it goes…Inventing the Individual: the Origins of Western Liberalism By Larry SiedentopThe biggest problem with not reading and not being familiar with history is that you can be easily fooled into thinking that the way things are now is the way that they have always been. Even highly educated and intelligent people can fall into this trap and become provincial in time. The book is a study of how the individual became the unit of social organization in the West. It's fascinating. For in the eyes of Islamic fundamentalists, and indeed in the eyes of not a few in the West, liberalism has come to stand for ‘non-belief’ – for indifference and permissiveness, if not for decadence. Why is that? And is the charge justified? This book is an attempt to find out. Its argument rests on two assumptions. The first is that if we are to understand the relationship between beliefs and social institutions – that is, to understand ourselves – then we have to take a very long view. Deep moral changes, changes in belief, can take centuries to begin to modify social institutions. It is folly to expect popular habits and attitudes to change overnight. The second assumption is that beliefs are nonetheless of primary importance, an assumption once far more widely held than it is today. In the nineteenth century there was a prolonged contest between ‘idealist’ and ‘materialist’ views of historical change, with the latter holding that social order rests not so much on shared beliefs but on technology, economic interdependence and an advanced social division of labour. Even the declining appeal of Marxism in the later twentieth century did not discredit that view. Rather, in a strange afterlife, Marxism infiltrated liberal thinking, creating a further temptation to downgrade the role of beliefs. That temptation became all the greater because of the unprecedented prosperity enjoyed by the West after the Second World War. We have come to worship at the shrine of economic growth.The Peloponnesian War by Robert Kagan and Thucydides Commentary Okay, every time I say Peloponnesian War - I've got this stupid line in my head. "Pelop's Ponesian War" Like a guy name Pelops decided to put on a war for entertainment. No idea why this is the case. But this seems to happen with Greek words. I have a joke about Sophocles as well. Big Guido -- "Mikey, why you always writing like that? You should be out playing ball."Micheal -- "I've got a paper due on Sophocles."Big Guido -- "Sophocles? How about you try Sophocles" (Grabs crotch)I've read Thucydides before. Hard, but worth it. Kagan wrote a four-volume masterwork on the history of the War for scholars then distilled it down into this book. I read these, partially because Thucydides is great. And partially as research for a project for something I can't really talk about while it's in the works. The Peloponnesian War was effectively the first “World War” Athenians v Spartans, all the other Greek city states picked a team. It’s got Vietnam baked in (the disastrous Athenian campaign in Syracuse), earthquakes, plagues and some of the defining speeches of Western Culture. Piranesi by Suzzanna ClarkeI liked it. It's gorgeously written, but it didn't have the impact on me that Dr. Strange and Mr. Norell did. I loved that book. Which is a kind of alternate history presupposing disused magic existed in the Napoleonic era. This is is my favorite part“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.” The Toymakers by Robert DinsdaleI've only read half of this book. It's a Christmas book about a magical toystore in the Heart of London before WWI. In the spring, I started reading it on the recommendation of a friend and I decided to save it for the week of Christmas. It's marvelous magical realism. If you want a Christmas book -- this is the one. Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. ParkerThis is the blurb for the book: "A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all.To save the city will take a miracle, but what it has is Orhan. A colonel of engineers, Orhan has far more experience with bridge-building than battles, is a cheat and a liar, and has a serious problem with authority. He is, in other words, perfect for the job."What nothing on the outside of the book will tell you is that this is a book about the tensions of civilization, racism, oppression and ideology. Orhan is part of a downtrodden minority in the book. Yet it falls to him to save the city and the empire -- the same empire that crushes everybody who's not the empire beneath it's cruel sandaled heel. There's a lot in this book.Orhan is also a magnificent narrator. And this book is funny, insightful, profound, here's a few clips. “A wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it.” “Beautiful people, though, I struggle with. Unless you keep your eyes shut or look the other way, you can’t help but have the awful fact ground into you, like the wheel of a heavy wagon running over your neck, that here is someone divided from you by a vast, unbridgeable gap, and they’ve done absolutely nothing to deserve it. Ogus’s wife – her name was Sichelgaita – was that level of beauty. I won’t even try to describe her, because they don’t make words that could take the strain. You felt ashamed to look at her.” “The way I see it, the truth is just barren moorland, all useless bog and heather. It’s only when you break it up and turn it over with the ploughshare of the Good Lie that you can screw a livelihood out of it. Isn’t that what humans do? They take a dead landscape and reshape it into what they need, and want, and can use. I’ve never hesitated to adapt the world to suit me, when I can get away with it.” “That’s how the world changes. It’s either so quick that we never know what hit us, or so gradual that we don’t notice. It’s only later, when books are written and scholars decide what mattered and what didn’t, that red lines are drawn – before this point, the world was this way, after this point, everything was different. You could be there and not have a clue. You could be asleep, or looking the other way, having a quiet s**t or screwing in an alley, and an unseen pen draws a line. Here the Empire ended. Here the Dark Ages began.” A lot of Conn IgguldenConn Iggulden is one of the authors of the Dangerous Book for Boys. But he also writes historical fiction. And, for my money, he makes Bernard Cornwall look like a chump. And Cornwall is excellent. This year I read the Emperor Series about Julius Ceasar. Last year I read his Genghis Khan series. Both excellent. Both in a page-turning, thrilling, gore and violence, arrrgh adventure! Way and as writing. Especially the first two books of the Ceasar series. Some very powerful human moments. And he write women very well. He's tremendously talented. And very diligent with this history. I also read The Falcon of Sparta which is his retelling to Xenophon's Anabasis. The story is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. Xenophon goes with a 10,000 Hoplite Mercenaries to fight for Cyrus the Younger who attempted to steal the Throne of Persia, but gets killed and his army is defeated.All except the 10,000 greek mercenaries. See they were on the other side of the hill from Cyrus's army, so they are busy routing the rest of the Persian army. And when they find out Cyrus is dead, they have a huge problem. It's the story about how they fought their way back home to Greece. Or Coney Island. Because, not only is this a true story, but it's also the inspiration and plot of Walter Hill's classic 1977 film The Warriors. If you need some historical fiction, pick up some Iggulden. He's a master. And it's seriously fun to say his last name. Boswell's Life of JohnsonI'm reading this bit by bit. My sense is the biography has lasted better than anything Johnson wrote when he was alive. Which is a bit crazy because, except for his Biography of Johnson, it seems that Boswell might have been an annoying drunken hanger-on of a jackass who never did anything else right in his life. Samuel Johnson came from crushing poverty and hardship -- and pretty much single-handedly compiled the first Dictionary of the English Language. In the preface of which he wrote: It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect, where success would have been without applause, and diligence without reward.Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths of Learning and Genius, who press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other authour may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.He was also a prodigiously fast writer and reader. Boswell says this of him. 'Johnson knew more books than any man alive.' He had a peculiar facility in seizing at once what was valuable in any book, without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end. He had, from the irritability of his constitution, at all times, an impatience and hurry when he either read or wrote.Which makes me feel better about the way I sometimes raid nonfiction books rather than read them. Or maybe the way I render them, like one boils scraps of meat to render the useful fats out of them. I'm not going to take the time to find the precise metaphor. Whatever it is, it isn't pretty -- it's messy and nothing I'd want my children to watch. I just try to rip the guts right out of the book. And that fact that Johnson did it too makes me feel a little better. The Border by Don WinslowGood, but honestly, not his best. I would suggest The Power of the Dog -- the first book in the trilogy. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but reading The Power of the Dog and The Cartel was an experience like I've never had before. Winslow knows the sordid ins and outs of the Drug War like few others and he gets so much out of it as an author. I am personally against the prohibition of drugs on moral grounds. In addition to being electrifying thrillers, these books help make the human cost of our price supports for drugs real. If cocaine wasn't expensive in the U.S. people wouldn't kill themselves for it in Juarez and Colombia. Pablo Escobar blew up an airliner and bombed the Colombian Supreme Court. That's on him. But it's also on us. But don't let my speechifying put you off. The books are great thrillers. If you liked Narcos, you'll love these. The Three Body Problem, by Liu CixinHere's the Amazon blurb: Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.This is a triple winner of a great book. 1) It's great hard sci-fi. 2) It's is great psychological fiction. Not only is the science good, but the insights into people and society are great as well. 3) It's Chinese science fiction, so you get a glimpse into another culture. Having been to a few conventions and having met a number of sci fi and fantasy authors, it is a little dismal how conventional many of them are. There is a groupthink in what they call "The Field" of writing speculative fiction. And, of course, a lot of internal strife. Who's the good guys, who's the bad guys? I don't pretend to know, but you can get a lot of sameness in fiction when they have the same worldview and they've spend a lot of the same time in the same rooms talking about the same things in the same way. This book wasn't like that at all for me. It was brilliant and refreshing.Plus Others, but...That's for this post. Throw in some scattered reading in the Bible, Shakespeare, Economics and Poetry and it's a year well-spent. Of course, I wish I had a chance to read more, but, you know there was real life to be lived as well. If anybody has a suggestion of something I should read next year, put it in the comments. I have a bit of an addiction with buying books, so please enable me. Get full access to How It's Written by Patrick E. McLean at patrickemclean.substack.com/subscribe

David Reid is the drummer and producer for the progressive metal band, Anabasis. Check out Anabasis at: https://www.facebook.com/anabasismetal/ or https://anabasismetal.bandcamp.com/ Dave is back to discuss smoking, the 2020 Presidential election, professional basketball, fighters unions, the L7, and more! For more episodes, check us out at ClearShotsPodcast.com, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or where ever you get your podcasts! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Intro by Steve Losurdo Productions. https://www.facebook.com/stevelosurdoproductions/ Sneak Energy referral link: https://us.sneakenergy.com/pages/referral?code=gGI8ok

From perhaps the greatest nonfiction adventure story of all time — Xenophon's Anabasis — an incredible moment of standing up when one is not-quite-ready.

This week, we venture into the weird, weird world of 2004's Alexander. Join us for a discussion of mystery cults, Roxana, eunuchs, Jamie's sincere apology for choosing this movie, Aristotle, and more! Sources: Production and Background: Scott Tobias review: https://film.avclub.com/alexander-1798200224 Rotten Tomatoes Box Office: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alexander BBC Review: http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/12/14/alexander_review_2004_review.shtml Robin Lane Fox, Making of Alexander, available at https://www.amazon.com/Making-Alexander-Official-Guide-Epic/dp/0951139215 "I Have Let Alexander Down," available at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3634344/I-have-let-Alexander-down.html AO Scott Review, NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/movies/a-territory-alexander-couldnt-conquer.html Interview with Rosario Dawson, Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a1351/esq0406rosario-152/ Mystery Cults: The Met: Mystery Cults in the Greek and Roman World, available at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/myst/hd_myst.htm Livy, History of Rome, Book 1: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0166%3Abook%3D39%3Achapter%3D14 Albert Henrichs, "Greek Maenadism from Olympias to Messalina," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 82 (1978) Plutarch, Alexander, available at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0243%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D5 Lowell Edmunds, "The Religiosity of Alexander" Eric Csapo, "Riding the Phallus for Dionysus" Phoenix 51, 3-4 (1997) Ross Kraemer, "Ecstasy and Possession: The Attraction of Women to the Cult of Dionysus," Harvard Theological Review 72, 1-2 (1978) Roxane: Cilliers & Retief, "The death of Alexander the Great," Acta Academica 31(3), (1991), 63-76. https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11660/10263/academ_v31_n1_a3.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Alexander the Great, In Our Time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06d9bkx History of the World in 100 Objects: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00sbryz Worthington, Ian, ed. 2012. Alexander the Great : A Reader. Florence: Taylor & Francis Group. Accessed July 12, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central. Thomas, Carol G. Alexander the Great in His World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Blackwell Ancient Lives. Web. Plutarch, Moralia: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Fortuna_Alexandri*/1.html The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46976/46976-h/46976-h.htm#Page_241  Eunuchs: Pierre Briant, Darius in the Shadow of Alexander. Harvard University Press, 2015. Michael Charles, "The Chiliarchs of Achaemenid Persia," Phoenix 69, 3-4 (2015) Judith Herrin, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. Princeton University Press, 2008. Walter Stevenson, "The Rise of Eunuchs in Greco-Roman Antiquity," Journal of the History of Sexuality 5, 4 (1995) Aristotle and Barbarians: Sarah Pruitt, "Where Did the Word Barbarian Come From?" Available at https://www.history.com/news/where-did-the-word-barbarian-come-from Mark, Joshua J. "Aristotle." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Last modified May 22, 2019. https://www.ancient.eu/aristotle/. Also, Dictionary of the Social Sciences entry (ed. Craig Calhoun) "These Were History's Deadliest Events," National Geographic, available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/06/graphic-wwii-and-the-100-deadliest-events-in-history-feature/ "The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (1 ed.) Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth ALSO https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/alexander-great/ " 

Xenofons antika bok Anabasis skildrar hur tio tusen grekiska soldater hamnar i prekärt läge hundra dagsmarscher hemifrån och deras kamp under återtåget till Hellas. Inlägget Om Anabasis – tio tusen grekiska soldaters kamp i fiendeland dök först upp på Radio Svegot.

Xenofons antika bok Anabasis skildrar hur tio tusen grekiska soldater hamnar i prekärt läge hundra dagsmarscher hemifrån och deras kamp under återtåget till Hellas.Hör hela avsnittet på https://www.svegot.se/svegot-plus

Xenofons antika bok Anabasis skildrar hur tio tusen grekiska soldater hamnar i prekärt läge hundra dagsmarscher hemifrån och deras kamp under återtåget till Hellas.

Triple Sesión Tesoro con Azul y Negro, Anabasis y Fisura. Azul y Negro vinieron a presentar su segundo elepé "La Noche" producido por Julián Ruiz. En el estudio de RNE hicieron cinco piezas alejadas del brillo que tenía el disco, lo cual mejora notablemente el resultado (para mí, claro). AZUL Y NEGRO: CANCIONES EN DIRECTO (1983) (PARA EL CONCURSO DE RNE "DON DOMINGO"). Estudio Música 2, Casa de la Radio, Prado del Rey, 3 febrero 1983. 01.- Fantasía de piratas 02.- Secuencias 03.- Isadora 04.- La noche 05.- Tecnovision Intérpretes: Carlos Garcia-Vaso Joaquín Montoya Un buen amigo discopolista, Juan Ramos se interesó hace tiempo por un grupo, en el que militaba cuando tenía 15 años, Fisura. Comentó que habían venido a grabar dos canciones a un estudio muy grande y que luego "una canaria muy simpática" las puso un sábado por la mañana. eran de Vallecas. No pretendía que las pusiera en estas sesiones "porque teníamos 15-17 años y no sabíamos tocar, pero coincidimos con un grupo de rock sinfónico que eran muy buenos y sí que sabía tocar". Ese grupo era Anabasis. He localizado las dos grabaciones correspondientes y las recupero hoy. ANABASIS: CANCIONES EN DIRECTO (1982) Estudio Música 2, Casa de la Radio, Prado del Rey, 19 mayo 1982 01.- La creación 02.- Bruma 03.- Incomunicación 04.- Nubes de metal Enrique Fernández Josete Ordoñez Javier Macua Francisco García Gonzalo Sagarminaba FISURA: CANCIONES EN DIRECTO (1983) Estudio Música 2, Casa de la Radio, Prado del Rey, 24 febrero 1982 01.- Sueños 02.- Johnny Guitar Ramón Lázaro: guit. rítmica y voz. Juan Francisco Cabeza: guit. solista y coros. Juan Ramos: bajo y coros. Cesar Lázaro: batería Manuel García: teclados. Juan Ramos ha seguido en la música siendo el encargado de hacer todos los años el Homenaje a Enrique Urquijo allá por noviembre. Además, en 2010 y 2012 publicó con Rock Indiana dos discos con el grupo DESCONOCIDOS, donde estaban nuestros queridos Pablo y Carlos Carrero. Escuchar audio

Tras la muerte de Darío II rey del Persia, en el año 404 a. C., su hijo Artajerjes II heredó el trono legítimamente. Su hermano menor, Ciro el Joven, conspiró para conseguir la corona, pero fue denunciado por el sátrapa Tisafernes. Protegido por su madre Parisatis, fue restablecido en su mando de Sardes donde comenzó a reclutar un ejército de mercenarios griegos. Tarea fácil ya que numerosos hoplitas se encontraban inactivos a finales de la Guerra del Peloponeso, como ya os contamos en la trilogía dedicada a este conflicto. Gracias a Juan Luis Gomar Hoyos autor de las novelas, “La isla de las sombras. La batalla de Esfacteria” y “El llanto inconsolable de los cuervos” basadas en esta época, conoceremos la hazaña narrada y protagonizada entre otros por Jenofonte. En esta segunda entrega del ANABASIS tras la derrota de Ciro el Joven (ESCUCHAR EL PRIME CÁPITULO EN https://www.ivoox.com/48656201 ) en Persia los mercenarios griegos deben regresar a sus tierras, en un viaje por caminos y montañas desconocidas que les llevaran hasta el mar Negro, muy lejos de las costas mediterráneas por las que subieron hacia Persia. SIN MÁS OS DEJO CON LA HISTORIA Os invito conocer las novelas de Juan Luis en https://amzn.to/30QYSSX Puedes escuchar la SERIE LA GUERRA DEL PELOPONESO EN :la Primera Parte en https://www.ivoox.com/42706314 y la Segunda Parte en https://www.ivoox.com/43808309 la tercera en Créditos Musicales: - Epic Greek Battle Music - Made by Johan Söderqvist , epic music. - Greek paean / Peán griego By Polish group Gardzienice en su album Orkiestra Antyczna. No olvidéis suscribiros al canal, si aún no lo habéis hecho. Si queréis ayudarnos, dadle a “me gusta” (el corazón a la derecha de Ivoox) y también dejadnos comentarios. De esta forma ayudaréis a que los programas sean conocidos por más gente. Y compartidnos con vuestros amigos y conocidos. SIGUENOS EN TODAS LAS REDES SOCIALES ¿Queréis contactar con nosotros? Puedes escribirnos a bellumartishistoriamilitar@gmail.com Nuestra página principal es: https://bellumartishstoriamilitar.blogspot.com

IN THIS EPISODE: When Lulu competes a fight arranged in the South Dock Pits, the party is attacked by mysterious assailants. Join us at 8 PM CDT/9 PM EDT on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesday of each month for Scarred Lands: Sins of Shelzar, an Actual Play show set in Onyx Path Publishing's Scarred Lands. Live on twitch at https://twitch.tv/plasticageplays Buy Scarred Lands 5e in digital or POD at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4261/Onyx-Path-Publishing/subcategory/8329_24824/Scarred-Lands-new Check out (and create) Scarred Lands Community Content at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4261/Onyx-Path-Publishing/subcategory/8329_29809/Slarecian-Vault Character Art by Mike Mutant Art & Milena Deneno Subscribe to Milena's channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/MillyDen Support Mike's Comic at https://www.patreon.com/mikemutant/posts Subscribe to Onyx Path at https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOnyxPath Music: Sandstorm by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sins-of-shelzar/message

  Book Vs Movie  The Warriors (Yes, the Cult Classic Film is Based on a Book!) The Margos are picking out our costumes for this special episode devoted to the cult classic The Warriors (yes, it was based on a book by Sol Yurick.) The movie, directed by Walter Hill, was a hit when it was released in 1979, but the glory of that was marred by real-life gang violence at the time which caused the movie studios to cease advertising the film. It was a staple of syndicated television throughout the 80s and is considered a modern classic and one of the earliest films to bring a comic book sensibility to urban decay.  Yurick wrote the original story in 1965 and based it on his experience working for the welfare department in New York City after graduating college in the 1940s. He became fascinated by the teenagers he met and how they navigated living in a big city. (At the time, the term “juvenile delinquent” was used to describe young people who got into trouble.) The basis for the story is a fictional account of gang life and the Greek story Anabasis.  In the mid-1970s, producer Lawrence Gordon bought the rights to the book and Paramount Pictures became the home of the film adaptation.  There are several differences between the book and film including the names and costumes of the multitude of gangs and its depiction of women.  So between the book and the movie, which did we like better? Click on the link below to find out! In this ep the Margos discuss: The life story of Sol Yurick New York City in the 1960s and 1970s  Trivia about the shooting of the film The cast which includes: Michael Beck (Swan,) James Remar (Ajax,) Dorsey Wright (Cleon,) Brian Tyler (Snow,) David Harris (Cochise,) Tom McKitterick (Cowboy,) Marcelino Sanchez (Rembrandt,) Terry Michos (Vermin,) Deborah Van Valkenburgh (Mercy,) Roger Hill (Cyrus,) David Patrick Kelly (Luther,) Lynne Thigpen (D.J.,) and Mercedes Ruehl (policewoman.) Clips Featured: The Warriors  trailer “Warriors, come out to play!” (David Patrick Kelly) Luther “Can you dig it?” (Roger Hill) The D.J. warns The Warriors (Lynne Thigpen) Outro music: Composer Barry DeVorzon  Join our Patreon page to help support the show! https://www.patreon.com/bookversusmovie  Book Vs. Movie podcast https://www.facebook.com/bookversusmovie/ Twitter @bookversusmovie www.bookversusmovie.com Email us at bookversusmoviepodcast@gmail.com Brought to you by Audible.com You can sign up for a FREE 30-day trial here http://www.audible.com/?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Margo D. @BrooklynFitChik www.brooklynfitchick.com brooklynfitchick@gmail.com Margo P. @ShesNachoMama https://coloniabook.weebly.com/ 

Tras la muerte de Darío II rey del Persia, en el año 404 a. C., su hijo Artajerjes II heredó el trono legítimamente. Su hermano menor, Ciro el Joven, conspiró para conseguir la corona, pero fue denunciado por el sátrapa Tisafernes. Protegido por su madre Parisatis, fue restablecido en su mando de Sardesdonde comenzó a reclutar un ejército de mercenarios griegos. Tarea facil ya que numerosos hoplitas se encontraban inactivos a finales de la Guerra del Peloponeso, como ya os contamos en la trilogía dedicada a este conflicto. Gracias a Juan Luis Gomar Hoyos autor de las novelas, “La isla de las sombras. La batalla de Esfacteria” y “El llanto inconsolable de los cuervos” basadas en esta época, conoceremos la hazaña narrada y protagonizada entre otros por Jenofonte. En esta primera entrega del ANABASIS subiremos hasta Persia junto a los mercenarios griegos al servicio de Ciro. SIN MÁS OS DEJO CON LA HISTORIA Os invito conocer las novelas de Juan Luis en https://amzn.to/30QYSSX Puedes escuchar la SERIE LA GUERRA DEL PEOLPONESO EN :la Primera Parte en https://www.ivoox.com/42706314 y la Segunda Parte en https://www.ivoox.com/43808309 la tercera en Créditos Musicales: - Epic Greek Battle Music - Made by Johan Söderqvist , epic music. - Greek paean / Peán griego By Polish group Gardzienice en su album Orkiestra Antyczna. No olvidéis suscribiros al canal, si aún no lo habéis hecho. Si queréis ayudarnos, dadle a “me gusta” (el corazón a la derecha de Ivoox) y también dejadnos comentarios. De esta forma ayudaréis a que los programas sean conocidos por más gente. Y compartidnos con vuestros amigos y conocidos. SIGUENOS EN TODAS LAS REDES SOCIALES ¿Queréis contactar con nosotros? Puedes escribirnos a bellumartishistoriamilitar@gmail.com Nuestra página principal es: https://bellumartishstoriamilitar.blogspot.com

Dr. Rozelle has been working in the field of applied psychophysiology and biofeedback since 1990. He’s a licensed and certified psychotherapist, Board certified neurotherapist, Board certified Quantitative Electroencephalography Diplomate (QEEGD), a Diplomate in Neurofeedback, and Senior Fellow BCN with the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA). He has also attained Fellowship status with the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and biofeedback. Dr. Rozelle was Selected for inclusion in Trademark Top Doctors in 2018. After obtaining his Doctorate from the University of Florida in 1978, Dr. Rozelle worked in clinical and administrative positions in the field of addictions. While serving as Program Director at Anabasis, an innovative addictions treatment program, Dr. Rozelle investigated a brain-based approach to alcoholism treatment called alpha-theta brain wave training.After studying the technique at the Menninger Institute in Topeka, he enjoyed success with neurofeedback training for addictions. He later was able to apply the technology to help a colleague recover from a stroke. Since then, Dr. Rozelle has worked with many conditions including stress disorders, neurological disorders, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, attention

Dr. Rozelle has been working in the field of applied psychophysiology and biofeedback since 1990. He’s a licensed and certified psychotherapist, Board certified neurotherapist, Board certified Quantitative Electroencephalography Diplomate (QEEGD), a Diplomate in Neurofeedback, and Senior Fellow BCN with the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA). He has also attained Fellowship status with the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and biofeedback. Dr. Rozelle was Selected for inclusion in Trademark Top Doctors in 2018. After obtaining his Doctorate from the University of Florida in 1978, Dr. Rozelle worked in clinical and administrative positions in the field of addictions. While serving as Program Director at Anabasis, an innovative addictions treatment program, Dr. Rozelle investigated a brain-based approach to alcoholism treatment called alpha-theta brain wave training. After studying the technique at the Menninger Institute in Topeka, he enjoyed success with neurofeedback training for addictions. He later was able to apply the technology to help a colleague recover from a stroke. Since then, Dr. Rozelle has worked with many conditions including stress disorders, neurological disorders, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, attention

Anabasis s the most famous book of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon.[1] The seven books making up the Anabasis were composed circa 370 BC. Anabasis is rendered in translation as The March of the Ten Thousand and as The March Up Country. The narration of the journey is Xenophon's best known work, and "one of the great adventures in human history".[2] (from Wikipedia)

Mack Maloney's returns to the show to talk about his latest Non-Fiction book... We cover, among other things.. • The Rock Apes of Vietnam • Dyfed Wales • What to make of Gulf Breeze and Ed Walters • Strange stuff in Warminster England • Mysterious hums and Sounds • San Luis Valley California • Weird Screams in Connecticut • The Bridgewater Triangle • Cowboys and aliens • NJ mystery shirts • The ghost blimp • The scare ships • Ghost fliers • Dan Aykroyd's non sighting • The Galloping Ghosts of Nansei Shoto • The ourang medan • Close encounter in Korea • Haunted highway Australia • The M triangle Outro Music is Terminal from Anabasis. Download  

Mack Maloney's returns to the show to talk about his latest Non-Fiction book... We cover, among other things.. • The Rock Apes of Vietnam • Dyfed Wales • What to make of Gulf Breeze and Ed Walters • Strange stuff in Warminster England • Mysterious hums and Sounds • San Luis Valley California • Weird Screams in Connecticut • The Bridgewater Triangle • Cowboys and aliens • NJ mystery shirts • The ghost blimp • The scare ships • Ghost fliers • Dan Aykroyd's non sighting • The Galloping Ghosts of Nansei Shoto • The ourang medan • Close encounter in Korea • Haunted highway Australia • The M triangle Outro Music is Terminal from Anabasis. Download  

Mack Maloney's returns to the show to talk about his latest Non-Fiction book... We cover, among other things.. • The Rock Apes of Vietnam• Dyfed Wales • What to make of Gulf Breeze and Ed Walters• Strange stuff in Warminster England • Mysterious hums and Sounds• San Luis Valley California • Weird Screams in Connecticut • The Bridgewater Triangle • Cowboys and aliens• NJ mystery shirts• The ghost blimp• The scare ships • Ghost fliers • Dan Aykroyd's non sighting • The Galloping Ghosts of Nansei Shoto• The ourang medan • Close encounter in Korea • Haunted highway Australia • The M triangle Outro Music is Terminal from Anabasis. Download  

Antik bir Yunan destanı olan “Anabasis: On Binler’in Dönüşü” , M.Ö. 5. yüzyılda Anadolu’da geçer. Pers Prensi Kyros, hükümdar abisi II. Artakserkes’e karşı on bin Yunan askerinden oluşan paralı bir ordu tutar. Savaşa giden bu on bin asker, tarihin en heyecan verici maceralarından birini yaşamak üzere yola koyulurlar. Eserin yazarı Ksenophon hem bir tarihçi, hem de bir askerdir. Eserini yazarken de kendi tecrübelerinden yararlandığı rivayet edilir.

David Reid is the drummer and producer for the progressive metal band, Anabasis. Their first full-length album, Of Conviction, is available now on all major platforms. Check out Anabasis at: https://www.facebook.com/anabasismetal/ or https://anabasismetal.bandcamp.com/ Dave is back to discuss religion, steroid usage in sports, video games, fitness, pro wrestling, and more! For more episodes, visit http://www.ClearShotsPodcast.com Listen on clearshotspodcast.com, YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, and more! Check us out on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/clearshotspodcast Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/clearshotspod Intro by Steve Losurdo. Check out Steve Losurdo Productions on Facebook and Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/stevelosurdoproductions/ https://www.instagram.com/stevelosurdoproductions/ Theme Song: Sanixels - End Fight

David Reid is the drummer and producer for the progressive metal band, Anabasis. Their first full-length album, Of Conviction, is available now on all major platforms. Check out Anabasis at: https://www.facebook.com/anabasismetal/ or https://anabasismetal.bandcamp.com/ Dave is back to discuss religion, steroid usage in sports, video games, fitness, pro wrestling, and more! For more episodes, visit http://www.ClearShotsPodcast.com Listen on clearshotspodcast.com, YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, and more! Check us out on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/clearshotspodcast Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/clearshotspod Intro by Steve Losurdo. Check out Steve Losurdo Productions on Facebook and Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/stevelosurdoproductions/ https://www.instagram.com/stevelosurdoproductions/ Theme Song: Sanixels - End Fight

David Reid is the drummer and producer for the progressive metal band, Anabasis. Their first full-length album, Of Conviction, releases on January 25th, 2019. Check out Anabasis at: https://www.facebook.com/anabasismetal/ or https://anabasismetal.bandcamp.com/ Dave returns to talk about old video games, politics, social media, and reminisce about the "good 'ol days." Listen on clearshotspodcast.com, YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, and more! Check us out on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/clearshotspodcast Follow us on Twitter: @ClearShotsPod Theme Song: Sanixels - End Fight Support Clear Shots by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/clear-shots-podcast Find out more on the Clear Shots website. Check out our podcasting host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free, no credit card required, forever. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-63f8fb for 40% off for 4 months, and support Clear Shots.

David Reid is the drummer and producer for the progressive metal band, Anabasis. Their first full-length album, Of Conviction, releases on January 25th, 2019. Check out Anabasis at: https://www.facebook.com/anabasismetal/ or https://anabasismetal.bandcamp.com/ Dave returns to talk about old video games, politics, social media, and reminisce about the "good 'ol days." Listen on clearshotspodcast.com, YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, and more! Check us out on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/clearshotspodcast Follow us on Twitter: @ClearShotsPod Theme Song: Sanixels - End Fight Support Clear Shots by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/clear-shots-podcast Find out more on the Clear Shots website. Check out our podcasting host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free, no credit card required, forever. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-63f8fb for 40% off for 4 months, and support Clear Shots.

David Reid is the drummer and producer for the progressive metal band, Anabasis. Their first full-length album, Of Conviction, releases on January 25th, 2019. Check out the end of part 2 for a track from the album. For more Anabasis, check out: https://www.facebook.com/anabasismetal/ or https://anabasismetal.bandcamp.com/ Dave joins us to talk about PC culture, comedy, 4chan, prison, music, movies, and more! Listen on clearshotspodcast.com, YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, and more! Check us out on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/clearshotspodcast Follow us on Twitter: @ClearShotsPod Theme Song: Sanixels - End Fight Support Clear Shots by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/clear-shots-podcast Find out more on the Clear Shots website. Check out our podcasting host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free, no credit card required, forever. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-63f8fb for 40% off for 4 months, and support Clear Shots.

David Reid is the drummer and producer for the progressive metal band, Anabasis. Their first full-length album, Of Conviction, releases on January 25th, 2019. Check out the end of part 2 for a track from the album. For more Anabasis, check out: https://www.facebook.com/anabasismetal/ or https://anabasismetal.bandcamp.com/ Dave joins us to talk about PC culture, comedy, 4chan, prison, music, movies, and more! Listen on clearshotspodcast.com, YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, and more! Check us out on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/clearshotspodcast Follow us on Twitter: @ClearShotsPod Theme Song: Sanixels - End Fight Support Clear Shots by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/clear-shots-podcast Find out more on the Clear Shots website. Check out our podcasting host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free, no credit card required, forever. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-63f8fb for 40% off for 4 months, and support Clear Shots.

Sorry for the delay folks but we've got September's historical figure finally up. It's King Philip II of Macedon. He is most commonly known as the father of Alexander the Great but Philip's ascension of power should be rightfully acknowledged for its own importance in shaping European and Middle Eastern culture for the centuries following his rule. Also in the Nick mentions a book describing greek mercenaries around the time of Philip's rule. That book is the Anabasis

Not a picture from WWII Join Dave and Jeff as they bring you some banter about growing old and health issues.  Eeew, no one wants to hear about that. In Dave's discussion of ASL Scenario 177: Anabasis you will get some insights and playing ideas. Jeff played Scenario SP 247:Deaths Head Debut from the great designer Evan Sherry. Schwerepunkt has had some confusing info about it's whereabouts

Eloise Hawser presents Anabasis to Dora, a programme of multi-site visits based on research into unusual and contested spaces, museums and collections around the UK. The series formed the background to her current exhibition By the deep, by the mark at Somerset House, until 22 April. The podcast follows Eloise on an Anabasis to Dora tour exploring London’s infrastructure with a bus trip to Beckton sewage treatment works and Crossness via Thamesmead. These waste disposal and transport sites form the functional backbone of the city, interconnected by largely unseen subterranean systems, moving fluids, waste and data around in a constant, necessary flow. Beckton marks the confluence of London’s northern and southern outfall sewers. The 260-acre site has been home to a treatment works for a century, and displays a rare array of different architectural tropes in its myriad buildings and structures. It also plays host to wildlife, a collection of Brutalist incinerators, a cylindrical pond, and all with an unexpectedly agrarian look to it.  Crossness, a now out-of-use Victorian sewage pumping station, fronted by ornate, almost church-like nineteenth century ironwork, a sunken void at the back hinting at its less attractive function. Crossness – adorned in ornate, richly painted ironwork – has been dubbed a ‘cathedral on the marsh’. It is both an expression of grand nineteenth-century ambition and a fundamentally utilitarian structure serving the most unglamorous necessities of a human population. Podcast produced by Somerset House Studios, edited by Jo Barratt. Music: Cylinder Nine by Chris Zabriskie, Global Warming by Kai Engel

Cómo lo prometido es deuda, y nosotros somos gente de palabra que no queremos enojar a los dioses, aquí os traemos la segunda parte del audio que compartimos el pasado miércoles sobre el ejército mercenario griego que se adentró en el corazón del imperio persa, para participar en una campaña que se las prometía pero que acabó siendo un estrepitoso fracaso. Nos referimos a la hazaña que posteriormente fue conocida como la expedición de los Diez Mil o la Anabasis, y que nos relató uno de sus protagonistas, el ateniense Jenofonte. En el anterior programa os dejamos a nuestros valerosos guerreros helenos sumidos en una compleja situación, tras haberse quedado en medio de la nada sin nadie que les pudiese dirigir. Pero como eran un grupo de valientes supieron sobreponerse a las adversidades y decidieron que si querían salir de esa, debían hacer un colosal esfuerzo. Y eso es precisamente de lo que trata la entrega de hoy. Os vamos a explicar en qué consistió esa retirada que emprendieron y a que peligros se tuvieron que enfrentar los mercenarios griegos para poder regresar de nuevo a sus hogares. Esperamos que os guste y ya sabéis que podéis dejar vuestros comentarios, sugerencias e impresiones sobre el podcast en el apartado correspondiente. Como siempre decimos, si os gusta, contamos con que os suscribáis a nuestro canal. Un saludo y hasta la próxima entrega de Cliophilos, un paseo por la historia.

Movies You Must Love To Date My DaughterShout-outs to Michael, Anthony, and David for being the best sports! We just did a brief summary of these films - there is so much more to say. We'll cover more in subsequent episodes.1) Captain Blood (1935) - Errol Flynn (sexiest man dead), Olivia DeHaviland (bosom-heaver), Basil "Ratters" Rathbone (worst French accent ever).This magnificent swashbuckler was nominated for 5 Academy awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Michael Curtiz, and Best Score.Book: Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (1922). First filmed in 1924 but only 30 minutes of the film still exist.2) Laura (1944) - Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Dame Judith Anderson, Vincent Price (as the boy toy)This dark, intense thriller epitomizes all that noir is meant to be. In fact, it won an Academy award for Black and White Cinematography. Also, was nominated for 4 other Oscars, including Best Director (Otto Preminger) and Best Supporting Actor (Clifton Webb). Book: Laura by Vera Caspary (1943). The book is quite different from the film. The plot of Sharkey's Machine (1981) is very similar, though Sharkey's Machine is based ot a novel by the same name. Could someone have been inspired by Caspary's original story?3) The Warriors (1979) - Michael Beck, James Remar, David Harris, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, David Patrick KellyArchetypal adventure of the gang The Warriors traveling through the mean New York streets, trying to reach safety at Coney Island. Wonderful adaptation of the tale of Anabasis by Xenophon (370 BCE). No awards. Boo! Book: The Warriors by Sol Yurok (1965). Music featured in this episode:"I Wanna Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart"- The White Stripes "Etiole Polaire: Little Dipper"- Philip Glass/Silver Alert"Laura (Theme)"- David Raksin"Way To Your Heart"- Persephone's Bees

"I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a Popsicle." The Warriors! Can you dig it? Indeed we can. Based on Sol Yurick's book, which drew inspiration from Anabasis by Zenophon, a pupil of Socrates, Walter Hill's cult classic is one long chase from the top to the bottom of the New York City subway system. At a gang conclave in the Bronx, gangsters from all of the New York City boroughs gather to talk strategy. Cyrus, the de facto uber boss, addresses the thousands in attendance with one of the great speeches in all of moviemaking, including "Can you count, suckers? I say, the future is ours!" And he'd be forgiven for thinking that too. This depiction of NYC features barely any cops, and gangs are running roughshod over the entire population. When Cyrus is assassinated, rivals claim it was the Warriors, a multi-racial crew from Coney Island, Brooklyn. Of course, our heroes had nothing to do with it, but that doesn't matter as every other gang in the city thinks it's true. The Warriors then have to "bop" their way back to Coney Island, their home-base. And they do this on the New York City MTA. With tonnes of excitement, crazy rival gangs, fisticuffs aplenty, it's no wonder we LOVE The Warriors. Find more reviews www.reallyawfulmovies.com.

The Warriors, 1979, directed by Walter Hill and based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name. Like the novel, the film borrows elements from the Anabasis by Xenophon. Starring: Michael Beck as Swan James Remar as Ajax Dorsey Wright as Cleon Brian Tyler as Snow David Harris as Cochise Tom McKitterick as Cowboy  Deborah Van Valkenburgh as Mercy

Victor Davis Hanson, author of a number of books on military and more specifically ancient Greek military history as well as farming from the agrarian hoplite perspective, joins us for this episode of the Paleo Treats podcast. Having been inspired to grow grapes from The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer to learn Attic Greek after reading Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, and think just a bit more about military history when exposed to the ideas in The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq by this guy, it was an honor to have him on the show. We cover everything from farming to soldiering to the Anabasis, public education, the delta smelt and whether or not the unemployed should be allowed to log downed timber. If you'd like to read more of his work or just learn what makes him tick, check out Victor Davis Hanson here. Enjoy!

Come out and play with Mike and Mondo Justin as they come to you from the depths of New York City. The guys make podcast history by examining the 1979 Walter Hill classic, The Warriors, with the majority cast by their side.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Xenophon.Xenophon, an aristocratic Athenian, was one of the most celebrated writers of the ancient world. Born in around 430 BC, he was a friend and pupil of the great philosopher Socrates. In his twenties he took part in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Persian king Artaxerxes II, and played a key role in guiding the surviving Greek troops - known as the Ten Thousand - back to safety. It was a dangerous journey from deep inside hostile territory, and lasted more than a year. Xenophon's gripping account of this military campaign, the Anabasis, is one of the masterpieces of Greek literature.Xenophon went on to write a history of the Peloponnesian War and its aftermath. But he was not just a historian, and his other works include books about household management, hunting and his mentor Socrates. His advice on the education and behaviour of princes had a significant influence in Renaissance Italy, and his treatise on horsemanship is still widely read today.With:Paul CartledgeA.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge UniversityEdith HallProfessor of Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of LondonSimon GoldhillProfessor in Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College.Producer: Thomas Morris.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Xenophon.Xenophon, an aristocratic Athenian, was one of the most celebrated writers of the ancient world. Born in around 430 BC, he was a friend and pupil of the great philosopher Socrates. In his twenties he took part in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Persian king Artaxerxes II, and played a key role in guiding the surviving Greek troops - known as the Ten Thousand - back to safety. It was a dangerous journey from deep inside hostile territory, and lasted more than a year. Xenophon's gripping account of this military campaign, the Anabasis, is one of the masterpieces of Greek literature.Xenophon went on to write a history of the Peloponnesian War and its aftermath. But he was not just a historian, and his other works include books about household management, hunting and his mentor Socrates. His advice on the education and behaviour of princes had a significant influence in Renaissance Italy, and his treatise on horsemanship is still widely read today.With:Paul CartledgeA.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge UniversityEdith HallProfessor of Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of LondonSimon GoldhillProfessor in Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College.Producer: Thomas Morris.