Podcasts about ancient greeks

Hello my curious archaeogastronomers!New episode is out!Did women in the ancient Greek world had parties? Dinner gatherings? Symposia? Alone or with their men? And what did they do on their own? Especially in those famous festivals?So many questions to answer! Enjoy!Links for this episode:https://www.hellenic.org.au/post/the-thesmophoria-women-s-ritual-in-the-ancient-worldhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_GynaecothoenasHipparchia of Maroneia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchia_of_Maroneiahttps://thestoicmom.substack.com/p/a-role-model-for-saying-no-and-doinghttps://www.worldhistory.org/Hipparchia_of_Maroneia/Seclusion, Separation, and the Status of Women in Classical AthensDavid Cohen https://www.jstor.org/stable/643180This episode was also heavily influenced and drew info from these two papers:WOMEN'S COMMENSALITY IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD By JOAN BURTON 1998DINING LIKE DIVINITIES: EVIDENCE FOR RITUAL AND MARITAL DINING BY WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE Laurie Ann Kilker 2008Recommendations for the week:Gareth Eoin Storey's substack: https://garethstorey.substack.com/p/we-work-in-marketingHow apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruithttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-apple-detectives-solved-the-mystery-of-an-ancient-tree-and-rewrote-the-history-of-fruit/UN report: Global hunger levels ease for third consecutive year as regional disparities persisthttps://www.who.int/news/item/21-07-2026-un-report--global-hunger-levels-ease-for-third-consecutive-year-as-regional-disparities-persistDarren Turpin from orchard notes, has links library, to highlight the work of fellow fruit-focused writers, organisations, food and drink producers, and anything else of interest he might find out there on t'Internet. Anyway go here:https://orchardnotes.com/about-notes-from-the-orchard/Love and lentil soupThom & The Delicious LegacySupport the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes!https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of Thelema Now!, host Harper Feist speaks with Italian contemporary witch, Priestess, teacher, and archaeologist Giulia Turolla about witchcraft, ancient religion, and the often-misunderstood world of Ancient Greece. Giulia's work sits at the intersection of scholarship and magical practice. With a background in Classical Letters and Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient World, she researches ancient magical and religious traditions while practicing witchcraft as an indigenous form of shamanism. Her approach explores the relationship between people, spirits, gods, place, and tradition—and how those connections can inform magical practice today. Harper and Giulia take a wide-ranging look at some of the common misconceptions surrounding Ancient Greek religion and mythology, separating modern assumptions from what historical and archaeological evidence can tell us about the religious and magical lives of ancient people. They also discuss Giulia's book, The Key to Ancient Greek Religion: A Source of Academic Knowledge for Practitioners, which brings contemporary academic research together with the needs of modern practitioners. The conversation explores how scholarship can deepen magical practice without reducing ancient traditions to modern stereotypes—and how practitioners can approach the Gods, spirits, magic, and religious practices of the ancient Mediterranean with greater context and understanding. A fascinating conversation about witchcraft, archaeology, ancient Greek religion, and the sometimes complicated relationship between historical research and modern magical practice. Visit her website at boscodiartemisia.academy/en/

This week, we're exploring some womb history. We're starting off with a bit of menopause magic – symptoms to look out for include a loss of feminine grace and bleeding piles. We dig into some homeopathic remedies and what the womb even is anyway – if Ancient Greeks are to be believed, it's just an inside out scrotum. _______________ Follow us on: Bluesky - @physiciansgallery Instagram - @physiciansgallery TikTok - @physiciansgallery Facebook - www.facebook.com/PhysiciansGallery Sign up for our newsletter - www.rcpe.ac.uk/newsletter To support heritage at the RCPE, please donate: www.rcpe.ac.uk/donate _______________ The Team: Dr Charlotte Holmes (@_CCHolmes_) - Editor/Producer Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer

This week, we're exploring some womb history. We're starting off with a bit of menopause magic – symptoms to look out for include a loss of feminine grace and bleeding piles. We dig into some homeopathic remedies and what the womb even is anyway – if Ancient Greeks are to be believed, it's just an inside out scrotum. _______________ Follow us on: Bluesky - @physiciansgallery Instagram - @physiciansgallery TikTok - @physiciansgallery Facebook - www.facebook.com/PhysiciansGallery Sign up for our newsletter - www.rcpe.ac.uk/newsletter To support heritage at the RCPE, please donate: www.rcpe.ac.uk/donate _______________ The Team: Dr Charlotte Holmes (@_CCHolmes_) - Editor/Producer Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer

Der Berg ruft". Spätestens seit dem Bergfilmklassiker mit Luis Trenker aus dem Jahr 1938 ist das ein geflügeltes Wort. Aber seit wann „ruft der Berg“ eigentlich? Die Geschichte des Alpinismus, so wie wir ihn kennen, beginnt Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. Angeblich hätten die Menschen davor jahrtausendelang die Berge gemieden und sogar gefürchtet. Doch das ist ein Mythos und gilt auch nur für die Gipfel. Natürlich stieg kein Bergbauer oder keine Bergbäuerin freiwillig so hoch hinauf. Warum auch? Die Berge waren Teil ihres Alltags: Sie boten Weideland und Handelswege, waren Orte der Begegnung und des Austauschs, manchmal waren sie sogar Sitz der Götter. Die Gipfel hingegen thronten über allem und erfüllten für die Menschen in den Bergen weder einen sozialen noch einen wirtschaftlichen Zweck. Das änderte sich erst im 18. Jahrhunderts mit der Zeit der Aufklärung. Die Berge wurden zu einer Art Forschungslabor, man kraxelte in nie geahnte Höhen, um Temperaturen zu messen, Gipfel zu kartieren oder am eigenen Leib zu erfahren, was es bedeutete, höhenkrank zu werden. Als der Mont Blanc Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts zum ersten Mal bestiegen und darüber in ganz Europa berichtet wurde, setzte ein wahrer Run auf die Alpen ein. Irgendwann kletterten die ersten Menschen einfach nur zum Spaß auf die höchsten Gipfel. „Weil er da ist“ soll der berühmte britische Bergsteiger George Mallory 1923 auf die Frage einmal geantwortet haben, warum er plane, den Mount Everest zu besteigen. Ein Podcast über die ersten Alpinisten, Bergsteigen in der NS-Propaganda und die Frage: Stimmt es, dass Frauen am Berg lange Zeit in einer Seilschaft nur im Nebel vorsteigen durften? Interviewpartner*innen: Philipp Felsch Martina Gugglberger Dawn Hollis Jason König Gudrun Weikert Walter Würtl Literatur: Arrian: Der Alexanderzug (Anabasis Alexandrou), 4. Buch (zahlreiche Ausgaben; im Podcast eigene Übersetzung). Deutsche Ausgabe z. B.: Arrian, Der Alexanderzug, griechisch und deutsch, hg. u. übers. v. Gerhard Wirth und Oskar von Hinüber, Düsseldorf/Zürich: Artemis & Winkler. Augustinus: Bekenntnisse (Confessiones), Deutsche Ausgabe, Reclam, Stuttgart. Felsch, Philipp (2007): Laborlandschaften. Physiologische Alpenreisen im 19. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. Grupp, Peter (2008): Faszination Berg. Die Geschichte des Alpinismus. Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau Verlag. Gugglberger, Martina (2021): Grenzen im Aufstieg. Frauenexpeditionen in den Himalaya (1955–2014) (= Geschichte und Geschlechter, Bd. 77). Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus Verlag. Hansen, Peter H. (2013): The Summits of Modern Man. Mountaineering after the Enlightenment. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press. Hollis, Dawn L. (2024): Mountains Before Mountaineering. The Call of the Peaks before the Modern Age. Stroud: The History Press. Hollis, Dawn L. und Jason König (Hg.) (2021): Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity. London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Homer: Odyssee, 6. Gesang, Deutsche Fassung in der Übersetzung von Johann Heinrich Voß. König, Jason (2022): The Folds of Olympus. Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press. Petrarca, Francesco: Die Besteigung des Mont Ventoux (Familiares IV, 1). Lateinisch/Deutsch, übers. u. hg. v. Kurt Steinmann, Stuttgart: Reclam. Reinisch, Gertrude (1998): Wanda Rutkiewicz. Karawane der Träume. München: Bergverlag Rother. Scharfe, Martin (2007): Berg-Sucht. Eine Kulturgeschichte des frühen Alpinismus 1750–1850. Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau Verlag. Stephen, Leslie (1871): The Playground of Europe. London: Longmans, Green & Co. Whymper, Edward (1871): Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860–69. London: John Murray. (Deutsch: Berg- und Gletscherfahrten in den Jahren 1860–1869.) Wordsworth, William (1844): Kendal and Windermere Railway. Two Letters Re-printed from the Morning Post (erster Brief, 9. Dezember 1844). Würtl, Walter u. a. (2026): DIGIWAY – Geodaten für Sicherheit am Berg (gemeinsam mit Christoph Höbenreich, Christoph Kovacs, Klaus Pietersteiner, Lucia Felbauer und Peter Plattner), in: bergundsteigen. Zeitschrift für Risikomanagement im Bergsport. Walter Würtl ist zudem langjähriger Redakteur von bergundsteigen und analyse:berg (Österreichisches Kuratorium für Alpine Sicherheit). Internetquellen: Magazin des Deutschen Alpenvereins (DAV) Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock - UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Alpinismus Engländerunglück – Wikipedia Ötzi, der Mann aus dem Eis - Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum Weitere Links: Die Geschichte des Urlaubs (Terra X History – der Podcast) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5X5jsY9nIPtHWVSH2BwYFg?si=0028c2115f564d4f Podcast-Tipp: Erdsee: https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/erdsee/index.html Team: Moderation: Mirko Drotschmann Sprecher*innen: Verena Glanos, Dominik Freiberger, Andrea Kath, Nils Kretschmer Buch und Regie: objektiv media GmbH, Janine Funke und Andrea Kath Technik: Sarah Fitzek Musik: Sonoton Produktion: objektiv media GmbH im Auftrag des ZDF Redaktion ZDF: Katharina Kolvenbach und Arne Peisker

Power, Control and Worship? We have a lot to learn from the Ancient Greeks when it comes to surrendering our sexual ethic to God's creative design. 

The winged horse Pegasus is one of the most iconic figures in Ancient Greek, and indeed world, mythology. Our study of the majestic creature takes us to unexpected places, from the dark depths of the Gorgon Medusa's lair, to the heights of Olympus. We uncover symbolic meaning in the Pegasus story with just as much range, from the workings of our innermost selves, to a cosmic lesson.Our study of Greek and Roman sources in art and texts including Hesiod's Theogony and Ovid's Metamorphoses.Much love to Downtown Dallas, Texas, where this was filmed! Pegasus Plaza is a lovely urban area dedicated to Pegasus and the Muses, and the fine people at Pegasus City Brewing have great beer and a really cool atmosphere.00:00 Introduction00:07 Perseus on Pegasus Slaying Medusa by John Singer Sargent00:20 Pegasus on the Fountain Hippocrene by Benvenuto Cellini00:25 The Muse on Pegasus by Odilon Redon00:38 A Monster Transformed01:02 Achilles and Memnon, between Thetis and Eos by the Munich Painter01:06 Pallas Athena by Gustav Klimt01:13 Running Gorgon by the Berlin Painter01:21 The Idol of Perversity by Jean Delville01:38 Medusa and Neptune Embracing by Johannes Zainer02:03 Secession Poster by Gustav Klimt02:13 Medusa by Jacek Malczewski02:46 Portrait of Actress Helena Sulima as a Gorgon by Jacek Malczewski02:53 The Head of the Gorgon Representing Tuberculosis by W Wassermann03:14 Head of Medusa by Godfried Maes03:19 Legend of Galatea by Baldassarre Peruzzi03:34 Medusa Shield by Arnold Böcklin03:38 Head of Medusa from the Uffizi Gallery03:44 Medusa by Evelyn de Morgan04:00 Pegasus Departing by Albert Pinkham Ryder04:21 Pegasus' Flight04:29 Winged Horse from the Louvre04:34 Minerva Visits the Muses by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Joos de Momper the Younger, and Hendrick van Balen the Elder05:04 Pegasus Among Flowers by Józef Mehoffer05:19 Pegasus by the Barclay Painter06:02 Chimera by the Bellerophon Painter, photographed by ArchaiOptix, licensed under Creative Commons06:12 Bellerophon Killing hte Chimera by Francesco di Giorgio06:28 Bellerophon, Pegasus, and Athena from Pompeii06:44 Bellerophon and Pegasus by Julius Troschel06:49 Bellerophon Mosaic from Nîmes07:08 Bellerophon and the Chimera from the National Archaeological Museum of Athens07:15 The Ultimate Flight07:19 Bellerophon and Pegasus from Apulia, photographed by Romanwindwhistler, licensed under Creative Commons07:39 “Yes, there he sat, on the back of the winged horse!” by Mary Hamilton Frye07:52 Jupiter and Bellerophon by Erik Cornelius08:16 Bellerophon on Pegasus by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo08:43 Bellerophon is Sent to the Campaign Against the Chimera by Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov09:00 Pegasus' Wings09:23 Pegasus and the Hydra by Odilon RedonMythos & Logos are two ancient words that can be roughly translated as “Story & Meaning.”Support the channel by subscribing, liking, and commenting to join the conversation!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mythosandlogosAll works of art are public domain unless stated otherwise. Ambiment- The Ambient by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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A goddess offers Odysseus immortality. He says no.Eight years on Calypso's island. Paradise, more or less. And he spends his days sitting on the beach, weeping for a rocky little kingdom he may never see again.Welcome to Part 2 (of 6!) of our series on Homer's great epic.Part 2 covers Books 5 to 8. We finally meet the man himself, and he arrives naked, half drowned, and buried under a pile of leaves. Why would anyone choose death over eternal life? And why does the greatest hero of the age get home on charm rather than force?Follow Odysseus as he builds his own raft, survives Poseidon's wrath, and talks his way into the most powerful household on the island of the Phaeacians. Meet the women who hold the real power: Calypso, the princess Nausicaa, and Queen Arete, honored like no woman of Homer's own day. Plus King Alcinous, and the blind bard Demodocus, whose song brings Odysseus to tears.Christopher Nolan cut three of these four books from his film. They may be the ones that tell you most about who Odysseus really is.Timestamps:00:57 Women, Power and Odysseus03:19 Hermes Visits Calypso05:25 Odysseus Trapped and Weeping06:14 Zeus Orders Release11:03 Calypso's Final Offer14:07 Why Mortality Matters17:45 Raft Building and Agency20:32 Poseidon's Storm and Shipwreck23:29 Phaeacia's Backstory24:10 Nausicaa's Dream28:10 Nausicaa Meets Odysseus30:54 Winning Nausicaa's Trust39:47 Athena Guides Odysseus40:53 Bronze Age Heroic Lens43:48 Arete and Royal Honor46:32 Palace Splendor and Supplication49:19 Clothes Test and Charm52:53 Cleos and the Bard56:12 Feast and Demodocus Song01:02:04 Games and Odysseus Flexes01:06:46 Aphrodite and Ares Trap01:13:03 Gifts and Nausicaa's Farewell01:14:56 Trojan Horse Song and Tears01:22:43 Closing ThoughtsCallouts:Special thanks to Dr. Richard Johnson for his longtime support of the show. You are Caesar and Odysseus's Top Guy!Special thanks also to the team at ZCash, who are building a digital network to transfer money with complete privacy. I've used their wallet Zodl, and it's worth checking out.In tribute to the life and aspirations of Savitha Shanmugasundaram, a University of Texas at Austin honors student who died tragically in the March 1 mass shooting, her parents have established the Savitha Shan Endowed Scholarship at UT Austin. The fund is intended to extend Savitha's legacy by supporting the educational journeys of future UT Austin students. Please consider donating if you can. 

BEST OF: Robots and automata have been with humans in one form or another for thousands of years. From ancient Egyptian illusionary statutes to Ancient Greek steam or air powered birds, even programmable carts and theatrical figures, up to near-modern mechanisms like the Digesting Duck in 1739 France, the 1770 Austrian chess robot, the 1773 Silver Swan in England, the 1795 Tipu's Tiger of India and the many robots of far east Asia. As early as the 8th century BC, the Chinese were using wooden mechanisms for burial objects, centuries before the Greek myth of a giant mechanical Talos. Long before European machines that are hardly remembered today, the Japanese had mechanical dolls called Nashiki karakul, which served tea and entertained every level of Edo society. None of this history is hidden, and part of the problem in deciphering what it means is our definition of words like robot, machine, giant, myth etc. However, as with technology today where glorified search engines are believed to be sentient intelligence, there were probably many in the ancient world who saw these devices as supernatural. The vast majority probably saw them for what they were though - entertainment. Although the value in such mechanisms has largely been lost today, or simply evolved or transitioned into something more contemporary, our modern use of similar technologies will likely be looked at by a future generation in the same way that we look back on an apparently lost part of human history. The modern popular culture, and conspiracy, perception of the past is that anything considerably advanced must be part of a lost civilization or alien, perhaps Tartarian specifically. But the printing press dates to 1440 and the cotton gin to 1793, two inventions that mechanically revolutionized the world in a way equal to modern phones, and yet few would dispute the modern-human-civilization origin of these devices.  *The is the FREE archive, which includes advertisements. If you want an ad-free experience, subscribe below. 

Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek's belief that crocodiles cried while eating their victims! Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a learned but always entertaining journey through the world of the Ancient Greeks, their extraordinary language and how it has shaped our own understanding of the world today. After all, what is language but the frame through which we understand the world? Davie aims to bring more than just humour, he seeks to trace the thread of ancient Greek thought that runs through our own civilization, always with the lightness of touch and fascinating etymology. We meet Eros and Aphrodite, Alexander the Great and Oscar Wilde, the stoics, Epicurus and Sparta.While this is a book about language and the touching and illuminating presence of the ancient Greeks in our current words, it's also about how Ancient Greece shapes our culture today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek's belief that crocodiles cried while eating their victims! Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a learned but always entertaining journey through the world of the Ancient Greeks, their extraordinary language and how it has shaped our own understanding of the world today. After all, what is language but the frame through which we understand the world? Davie aims to bring more than just humour, he seeks to trace the thread of ancient Greek thought that runs through our own civilization, always with the lightness of touch and fascinating etymology. We meet Eros and Aphrodite, Alexander the Great and Oscar Wilde, the stoics, Epicurus and Sparta.While this is a book about language and the touching and illuminating presence of the ancient Greeks in our current words, it's also about how Ancient Greece shapes our culture today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek's belief that crocodiles cried while eating their victims! Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a learned but always entertaining journey through the world of the Ancient Greeks, their extraordinary language and how it has shaped our own understanding of the world today. After all, what is language but the frame through which we understand the world? Davie aims to bring more than just humour, he seeks to trace the thread of ancient Greek thought that runs through our own civilization, always with the lightness of touch and fascinating etymology. We meet Eros and Aphrodite, Alexander the Great and Oscar Wilde, the stoics, Epicurus and Sparta.While this is a book about language and the touching and illuminating presence of the ancient Greeks in our current words, it's also about how Ancient Greece shapes our culture today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek's belief that crocodiles cried while eating their victims! Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a learned but always entertaining journey through the world of the Ancient Greeks, their extraordinary language and how it has shaped our own understanding of the world today. After all, what is language but the frame through which we understand the world? Davie aims to bring more than just humour, he seeks to trace the thread of ancient Greek thought that runs through our own civilization, always with the lightness of touch and fascinating etymology. We meet Eros and Aphrodite, Alexander the Great and Oscar Wilde, the stoics, Epicurus and Sparta.While this is a book about language and the touching and illuminating presence of the ancient Greeks in our current words, it's also about how Ancient Greece shapes our culture today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek's belief that crocodiles cried while eating their victims! Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a learned but always entertaining journey through the world of the Ancient Greeks, their extraordinary language and how it has shaped our own understanding of the world today. After all, what is language but the frame through which we understand the world? Davie aims to bring more than just humour, he seeks to trace the thread of ancient Greek thought that runs through our own civilization, always with the lightness of touch and fascinating etymology. We meet Eros and Aphrodite, Alexander the Great and Oscar Wilde, the stoics, Epicurus and Sparta.While this is a book about language and the touching and illuminating presence of the ancient Greeks in our current words, it's also about how Ancient Greece shapes our culture today.Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Patrick opens the phones to pressing questions from listeners, ranging from the biblical foundation of venerating saints and the meaning of adoration for children, to the thorny issue of honoring public figures whose values clash with Catholic teaching. He fields heartfelt stories about family, faith, loss, and the afterlife, tossing in advice on breaking anxious thought patterns and offering clarity on the difference between Greek mythology and Christianity for curious kids. Raul – Is venerating saints biblical? (00:30) Mary - I was reading a book on Dolly Parton. She was one of 13 who grew up extremely poor. Being very poor doesn't diminish the impact you could have on the world. (02:19) Johnny - I am listening to Cyrus glorify Dolly Parton. What are your thoughts on her promoting pride month and gay people? She led people to continue on in her sin. Does God love those in hell? (03:28) Christian (email) - All this talk about Lindsay Clancy has stirred up a question… (10:05) Ann - Is wearing a Rosary sinful? (13:42) Cindy - I lost my dog last year. I prayed that God would open the gates of heaven for my dog. I think God gave me a sign she was in heaven. My priest agrees. (20:48) Gloria - Our fantastic priest said he wants all catechism kids to sit in a half hour of Adoration every other Wednesday and also go to a Mass. How does he expect kids to sit for half an hour quietly. (23:58) Pablo (email) - In light of the release of the movie the Odyssey, how do I explain to my kids the difference between Ancient Greek religion (Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, etc.) and Christianity? (36:42) Sandy - I have negative thoughts that spin into a conversation in my head. How can I stop this? (42:23)

Author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn was teaching a university class on Homer's The Odyssey, when his elderly father decided to enrol in it.Daniel became fascinated by the stories of the ancient world as a child and grew up to study the classics and then write books and essays to share his knowledge with the wider world.Eventually he began teaching the Ancient Greek epic, The Odyssey, to first year university students at Bard College in New York State.But when his elderly father Jay asked to sit in on the course, it led to a big change in their relationship.This episode was first broadcast in 2020Further informationAn Odyssey: A father, a Son, and an Epic is published by KnopfDaniel's latest book is The Odyssey: A New Translation This episode was first broadcast in 2020.It explores the Ancient World, Homer, The Odyssey, the Classics, translation, poetry, writing, teaching, parents, family, fathers, students, New York State, memoir, Odysseus, hero, storytelling, siblings, Winnie the Pooh, emotions, love, books.

The inevitable has occurred, dear listener, so pay up your Eye Money as Death Week has arrived on Three Ravens, riding a pale horse...The final part of our month-long celebration of the Cycles of Life, on this episode we're chatting through the history and folklore of that undiscovered country where all dreams may come - and from which the ancestors might return if we're not careful!We start at the end of the last Ice Age, with humankind surviving in cave systems, engaging in ritual cannibalism and secondary burial rites, then move forward chronologically through the Stone Ages to explore how pre-literate societies embraced sky burials, megalithic portals and community bone hordes to create rituals which linked the end of life with the natural world and the safe functioning of the cosmos.Then, from Ancient Mesopotamian Dying Chairs and the Egyptian Book of the Dead via Ancient Greek and Roman funerary rites, including Defixio tablets to pass messages to the Underworld, we proceed through to the dawn of Anglo Saxon pagan magic and pre-Christian concepts of the hereafter.From radical Medieval shifts towards nakedness in death and circuitous Lych Ways to post-Reformation practices like Telling The Bees and Sin Eating, we hope you find it a reassuring and inspiring listen which places passing on in context.Because it isn't an end - it's the start of something new, like an Ouroboros biting its own tail - with Three Ravens Series 8 launching a week today.Though with several historical spells to help guide us through the dark, and protect us from pesky ghosts, let us journey together into the Twilight Realm feet first, as there's no going back, which is no bad thing!About Three Ravens

Lords: Rebecca Martin Topics: Running a home server: Easier than you might think and very useful to do The best place to find poetry is on vacation Winston reading every sign in Target Zampiceni's Marketplace, by Margaret Szumonski https://toots.ravenoak.dev/@rebecca/116899616527167036 Hot dog research thursdays and bad dracula nights Microtopics: Tomato season: the tomatoes look pretty good. Mozart in the Park. Actors: they're not fussy like cellists. Ancient Greek plays where they stab each other. 10 hours of Star Trek engine noises. An illicit hacker breaking into your Jellyfin server and watching your Star Trek. Listen to Data putter around. A recurring thing with a database that you have to keep debugging. Building a normal computer out of normal parts. Everybody being each other's encrypted off-site backup. Opening books and closing them, then opening them again and closing them again. The one about the horny grocery store. Having a difficult time finding delicious food in Massachusetts. The kind of food they feed you on a weaving retreat. Sitting in a Starbucks, staring at the internet and rotting. Walking into an indie music store and perusing the local music section. Getting mad on vacation because you miss your cats. Nothing Beats Doing Nothing. Buying grape juice from vineyards and making wine at home. All the little guys that help you make wine and cheese. Wrapping your wine fermentation vats in blankets so all the bacteria are more comfortable. Folks who assume you know about wine because you're from California. An advertisement exhorting you to go where you already are. Abag & Iclei?? What does that mean? Puzzling out the vanity plates. Growing up watching only PBS and then falling for every ad as an adult because you have no ad literacy. Seeing a targeted ad and feeling like you failed as a person because you want to buy the thing. How Instagram ruined hash tags. Getting off-topic but it's okay because it's a different topic. Prose poems and deconstructed sandwiches. Absolutely! No parking! For Buca di Beppo! Having notes on this sign. Seeing a sign and thinking "hmm, someone must've parked for Buca di Beppo here." Your tight five on East Coast Fallouts ruined the Fallout TV series. The grocer cutting open the pomegranates so you can touch them. Muscles building like coconuts, lifting whole regimes of bananas. Why are husbands so wrong about Zampiceni's Marketplace? Moammar Gaddafi's obsession with Condoleezza Rice. Getting curious what Danny Devito was doing in the 1970s. The invention of No-Fault Divorce. Be sure to marry someone you can go to the grocery store with. (Especially the sexy grocery store.) Saving the horny onions for your next appearance. What to do with all the write-in topics now that we don't have a write-in segment. Who to turn to for pizza research now that the Pizza Research Institute has shut down. A pizza that's more like a heaping roasted salad. Inventing the peanut butter and pickle hot dog once a week. Putting peanut butter on noodles. Food wizards. As much star anise as you could possibly ever use. Learning to cook in a no-onion environment. Fermenty Black Beans. Medium to high-effort hot dogs. Dracula just trying to be a good dad. Quitting Bad Dracula Day for good. Lucy pulling the football away. (The football is good Dracula movies.) A movie where karate guys do kick-ass moves while children are being trafficked. Michelle Yeoh as Cop Lady. Fast forward 200 years and it's 1972 and there's a funk soundtrack. Hosting your own patreon, and other ideas that will definitely work. Being on the Fediverse to post and on Bluesky to cry. What Gene Siskel thinks of the Blacula sequel.

Spyros Siamos is an energy healer, esoteric author, and former mathematics teacher based in Messinia, Greece. He lives on a coastal olive grove situated near an ancient Temple of Apollo, where he conducts one-on-one healing sessions and hosts sound therapy, meditation, and spiritual workshops.A father of two and author of three books on esotericism, Spyros has explored various healing modalities and trained in Peruvian Shamanism for over ten years. He recently established Esothen Messinia—a dedicated space created to host accessible, low-budget creative and spiritual holidays, as well as affordable retreats in Greece.English is not Spyros' first language. Many of the concepts we touch on in this episode are ones that he wishes he could wax poetic on in his mother tongue. Never the less, this apparent limitation gives us, the listener, the opportunity to, like Apollo, allow ourselves to be engaged in the struggle of birthing the light.We begin with Spyros' childhood. His father taught primary and encouraged his interest in the ancient myths of his culture that were taught in early education. Spyros experienced myth as a way of tapping into the threads of history. Once in high school, myth was no longer taught. He replaced mythology with philosophy as that's what was considered to be the sensible thing to learn. To put away childish things. Then, through his exploration of the interior landscapes with a Peruvian Shaman, in the depth of his own consciousness, the mythic figures he'd learned about in early education returned as guides. First Athena, Aphrodite, Dionysus and others. And after a few years, Apollo. It was this first hand experience with the gods that I wanted to connect to On the Soul's Terms. Apollo (or the astrological Sun) not just as a concept that we can form opinions on and argue on the costs and benefits of such a god, but as an emergent, embodied, felt sense experience that is personified in Ancient Greek culture as the deity of light, harmony, balance and a clarifying light at the centre of it all. Later in the episode we touch on how and where Apollo has shown up in Spyros' healing work. Including the first time, when he was in the position of healer for a young man who had gone into a coma following a motorcycle accident. Here the god helped him to stay in a state of observation whilst the pain, suffering and emotion swirled all around him.We talk about the cultivation of the mind necessary to be in right relationship with such potent energy fields. And the risk, that Spyros himself has suffered personally, of having one's system blown open when that light is unmediated. Which draws us to the field of the Muses or the Angels or the Daimones. Whatever one might call that layers of consciousness that is neither this nor that, both... and. And how they can help us to create from a steady hearth rather than from bright sparks that leave us singed in the end. Spyros will be hosting a retreat for men in Greece in October. I'll be personally attending. For more information on that click here. The episode artwork is from the West Pediment in the museum in Olympia. We discuss the scene in the episode – The Centaurs vs the Lapiths. Apollo stands in the centre of a chaotic battle between consciousness and instinct. Victory, in this sense, is not a case of overpowering the instinct, but of locating the light whilst being open to it all.Join the Newsletter!Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

If you're a lover of marble architecture, rich mythology, the Olympics or perhaps The Odyssey - then you're in for a treat. 

This week, James and Will are joined by journalist, author and cyclist, James Witts. James writes for a host of prestigious titles including the most prestigious of them all, Cyclist magazine, along with The Guardian, GQ, Rouleur and Men's Health to name but four more. James also edits the annual official Tour de France guide and has penned four books including his most recent, Dope, which explores the doping landscape of sport, from opium and the Ancient Greeks to modern athletes and micro-dosing EPO. In this episode, James explains what constitutes a banned substance; how performance enhancers such as EPO work; how the biological passport catches cheats; how evasion might still happen at altitude camps; and what ‘legal' methods athletes might still use. We also discuss the recent night-time testing at the Tour de France and what it might mean; how anti-doping agencies are funded and why that model is so murky; why athletes dope in the first place (it's not what you might think); and that million-dollar question – is cycling actually clean?Dope by James Witts (Blink Publishing) is out nowWe also discuss the tragic news of the death of cyclist Finlay Tarling at the Volta a Portugal. A GoFundMe page in memory of Fin has been set up here.Chat begins at 7.11------------------This episode is brought to you by Boyd Cycling, whose full range of hand-built wheels can be found at boydcycling.com......and the Maserati Grecale SUV car. For more information, go to maserati.com------------------Did you know Cyclist is also stunning monthly print magazine?Subscribe now at store.cyclist.co.uk/cycpod and get every issue for less than in the shops, delivered straight to your doorWe're also a really lovely website about everything road cycling and gravel. Check us out at cyclist.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we discuss Hesiod's Theogony and The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, not necessarily for the stories, but to understand how the Greeks conflate their understanding of magic, myth, religion, and history.

Andreas, Clara, et Ilsa ut de pellicula Christopheri Nolani Odyssea nomine loquamur! Ut estis audituri, maxime placuit. Sententias autem vestras audire pervelimus quas infra adiungere poteritis! Gratias agimus!

THIS WEEK! We continue our two part series, and we review Christopher Nolans Odyssey. What did we think about Nolans adaptation of Homers famous Epic? Did it live up to the expectations? How did the mythology of Homer work in a live action adaptation? Find out this week on "Well That Aged Well", with "Erlend Hedegart". Links to Professor Dangours work can be found here: Professor Dangours podcast:https://www.youtube.com/@itsallgreekandlatintome?si=I1vM4W5v3-LIQMvISoundtrack to find out what Ancient Greek music sounds like;https://armanddangour.substack.com/Rediscovering Ancient Greek Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=K54Ofnw4gEiS8PpD&v=UAmuQBnNty8&feature=youtu.beSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/well-that-aged-well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Explore the profound insights of "Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists-Various," a collection that delves into the foundational thoughts of early thinkers who shaped the course of Western philosophy and science. This audiobook invites listeners to reflect on the enduring legacy of these philosopher-scientists, whose inquiries into the nature of existence, knowledge, and the cosmos continue to influence contemporary thought. Their explorations of ethics, metaphysics, and the natural world resonate with today's quest for understanding and meaning. Engaging with this work not only enriches our appreciation of ancient wisdom but also inspires a deeper contemplation of the questions that still challenge humanity.

For no reason whatsoever, we look at some words that come from Homer's famous tale and Ancient Greek more generally.

A new week means new questions! Hope you have fun with these!Which European country is made of 16 voivodeships, or provinces?The pope gets appointed by a college of what "rank" in the Catholic church?What compound term denotes a term at least partly assimilated from one language into another language through the process of borrowing (at no fixed interest rate)?Who was the first St. Louis Cardinal to win the home run derby?Which group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe reached their zenith around the 3rd century BCE?Having just wrapped up for the year, and dating back to 1828, what is the oldest, continuous fair and horse show in the United States?Which Shakespeare play depicts a military commander who is manipulated by his junior officer into suspecting his wife of infidelity?What is the term for a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution?The month of June is named after which Roman goddess?Which French philospher and author wrote Bonjour Tristesse?The auto industry designates vehicle air bag tech by the acronym SRS, which stands for what?What alternate name for tetanus comes from severe muscle spasms, particularly those used in chewing?Fire-bellied toads are one of the few species in the animal kingdom with pupils that are what shape, a fact you just have to love?What adjective, meaning "lasting for a short time", comes from an Ancient Greek word for "of or for the day"?From the back end of one endzone to the back end of the other endzone, what is the length of a regulation American football field in feet?What kind of food is Halloumi?MusicHot Swing, Fast Talkin, Bass Walker, Dances and Dames, Ambush by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Don't forget to follow us on social media:Patreon – patreon.com/quizbang – Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Check out our fun extras for patrons and help us keep this podcast going. We appreciate any level of support!Website – quizbangpod.com Check out our website, it will have all the links for social media that you need and while you're there, why not go to the contact us page and submit a question!Facebook – @quizbangpodcast – we post episode links and silly lego pictures to go with our trivia questions. Enjoy the silly picture and give your best guess, we will respond to your answer the next day to give everyone a chance to guess.Instagram – Quiz Quiz Bang Bang (quizquizbangbang), we post silly lego pictures to go with our trivia questions. Enjoy the silly picture and give your best guess, we will respond to your answer the next day to give everyone a chance to guess.Twitter – @quizbangpod We want to start a fun community for our fellow trivia lovers. If you hear/think of a fun or challenging trivia question, post it to our twitter feed and we will repost it so everyone can take a stab it. Come for the trivia – stay for the trivia.Ko-Fi – ko-fi.com/quizbangpod – Keep that sweet caffeine running through our body with a Ko-Fi, power us through a late night of fact checking and editing!

He lived about 600 years before the writing of the New Testament, and yet two writers made a point of including him in its story. Why you need to know the story of Epimenides of Knossos in order to appreciate both the Book of Acts and the Letter to Titus. Based on Acts 17:16-31 and Titus 1:12-16, and on The Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. Show notes have been posted at retellingthebible.wordpress.com. Media in this Episode The following Creative Commons music was used for this media project: "AhDah" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Music: Podcast Music Vol 25 -- Evening Calm Produced by Sascha Ende Link: https://ende.app/en/song/13189-podcast-music-vol-25-evening-calm http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support Retelling the Bible If you would like to support the work that I do creating these stories, go to patreon.com/retellingthebible and choose a level of support! Contact me on Social Media! Reddit Bluesky Facebook

Christopher Nolan's “The Odyssey” hit theaters a little over a week ago.The film earned an estimated $124 million on its opening weekend and, at the time of this recording, received a score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and 4.4 stars on Letterboxd.While Nolan's mastery of his craft and a well-loved cast have certainly done their part in making the film a success, the credit must still go where it is due—to the architect of the source material: Homer.Tradition says that Homer was a blind, rambling poet. However, most historians agree that it is unlikely that one man put the epic together. Instead, The Odyssey was likely built on hundreds of years of oral tradition—with each poet adding their brick to the masterful wall that is the tale of Odysseus. And today, through this new film, our century adds its own brick to the wall.And through the centuries of this poem's adaptation and evolution, the amalgam of worldviews the different poets brought to the story exposed the spiritual beliefs of an entire age.For readers coming from an Abrahamic faith background, the way deities are presented in the tale is both familiar and foreign. The power checks out—as does the relational element and the blessings. But the foolishness, the pettiness—the humanity of the gods—feels foreign and even blasphemous.So how does this new rendition, made by people living in a society dominated by Abrahamic faiths and secularism deal with the devout, but perplexingly hubristic character of Odysseus? Is faith treated thoughtfully and with respect? Or is it made out to be as fantastical as the strange creatures of Greek myth?To find out how religion is and isn't represented in The Odyssey, I spoke with Religion Unplugged's very own culture critic and frequent host of the podcast, Joseph Holmes.

There have been three federal government shutdowns during President Donald Trump's second term. The potential for a fourth this fall is driving Senate Republicans' political strategy months ahead of the budget deadline. Also: today's stories, including how U.S. tariffs rattled allies and rivals, stressed household budgets, failed to boost manufacturing, but also raised big revenue; how long-simmering frustrations with corruption and youth unemployment have bubbled over into India's streets; and how Ancient Greek, it turns out, is not dead. Join the Monitor's Linda Feldmann for today's news.

Episode #59 Summary The delightful and engaging Laura Spinney is a science journalist and author of the book Proto. Laura joins the podcast to help us unpack the extraordinary story of the ancient Bronze Age Yamnaya culture, whose linguistic legacy endures today in the family of Indo-European languages. Even though the Yamnaya's Proto language went extinct without being recorded, its linguistic offspring have survived across millennia, evolving into a multitude of other languages that are alive and well in our time. Some of these many languages are English, Urdu, Russian, Farsi, Bengali, Spanish, Norwegian, and Irish. Proto is also the mother tongue of other languages that have since become extinct, such as Latin, Sanskrit, and Ancient Greek.With admirable mental dexterity, Laura weaves the complex, multilayered facets of the Proto story. She helps us tackle the core mystery of it all: who were the ancient peoples who spoke Proto that was never written down and hasn't been uttered in more than 4,000 years, and how is it that their Pontic Steppe culture ended up being the progenitor to a set of languages that are now spoken around the planet?Armed with the most up-to-date insights from linguistics, archaeology, and genetics, Laura shows us how these disciplines have converged over the last two decades to provide an increasingly clearer, but still evolving portrait. By unearthing DNA, tracing word roots, and studying cultural remnants, science has modeled aspects of this prehistoric period and the Yamnaya peoples, providing a deeper glimpse into the linguistic origins of nearly half of the planet.This episode concludes by considering the contemporary lessons Proto's themes offer. Migrations, evolving linguistic and genetic demographics, and the nativist and nationalistic reactions to change are familiar motifs. Citing the shifting language demographics in the United States, Spinney reminds us that migration and linguistic change are constant throughout human history rather than aberrations, arguing that only languages and cultures that adapt endure.This big-picture conversation in our Social Cohesion season invites us to consider the large tides of human history in our quest for cohesion. Spinney's Proto story shows us how intermixed the current state of affairs already is, asking us to widen our view and our hearts to see beyond apparent differences. The truth is there are vast scales of cultural and linguistic patterns moving through and around us. Proto asks us to open up, let go, and trust the wild and unrelenting change that has defined the human saga across thousands of years and will continue to do so in the coming centuries.

Here we are at the end of our Ancient Greek series and today we're ditching the dudes and talking about the Greek Queen dubbed 'more man than men'. I can't wait for you all to meet Artemisia of Caria, one of my favourite women in antiquity!As promised, ⁠the Hot History Substack⁠ is also now live! If you'd like to support us there, you'd be very welcome!Shout out to our incredible researcher Grace McCamish for helping to pull this together, and if you're wanting more Hot History you can follow along on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and of course, right here!Til next week, Ainslie x

Christopher Nolan is dominating theaters once again with his adaptation of The Odyssey starring Matt Damon, so we're taking the opportunity to not just talk about the new movie – which is excellent, though our hosts slightly disagree on how much – but the original poem by Homer. Well, not exactly the original, since neither of us read Ancient Greek – but we took a look at the 2017 translation by Emily Wilson for this episode (which partially inspired Nolan's film), and talk about a few other translations we've read over the years, as we appreciate a work that's endured for millennia for good reason. If you like the ‘academic' in Purely Academic, this is the episode for you.   Read Jonathan Lack's movie reviews and stay up to date with all our podcast projects at https://www.jonathanlack.comSubscribe to JAPANIMATION STATION, our podcast about the wide and wonderful world of anime: https://www.japanimation-station.com Read Jonathan's book 200 Reviews in Paperback or on Kindle – https://a.co/d/bLx53vKSubscribe to our YouTube channels! Japanimation Station: https://www.youtube.com/c/japanimationstation Purely Academic: https://www.youtube.com/@purelyacademicpodcastSupport the show at Ko-fi ☕️ https://ko-fi.com/weeklystuffOriginal Music by Thomas Lack https://www.thomaslack.com/©2012 - Present Jonathan R. Lack & Sean Chapman

The Valley of the temples in Agrigento, Sicily, is an archeological area containing the remains of seven ancient Greek temples, in varying states of conservation. Located along a ridge with breathtaking views of the Mediterranean Sea in the distance, it represents one of the world's most important collections of Ancient Greek architecture. 

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Summer is halfway over but the fun is still going on TFK. This month we dive into all things ruby.In this episode, we chat about why rubies are just red sapphires, where lasers come from and touch on some cursed gems. So grab something to sip on and come and learn with us. And remember to drink and science responsibly.TFK is a production of Erevna Media and Science, Actually. As always, like, subscribe, share and give us a good rating. We appreciate the love.OK February babies. We didn't forget you, just got a little overwhelmed with other things but we did record an amazingly fun episode about Amethyst.In this episode, we chat about why amethysts are purple, what power the Ancient Greeks thought they possessed and what kind of purple cocktails we came up with. So grab something to sip on and come and learn with us.As always, like, subscribe, share and give us a good rating. We appreciate the love.

Salvete sodales! Welcome to our series, "Rem Tenē!" a Latin podcast presented by Latinitas Animi Causa for beginner and intermediate learners of the Latin language built and designed for the acquisition and understanding of it as a language, not just a code to decipher. In this episode of Rem Tenē, we begin our new series within Rem Tenē! telling the story of Book 4 of the Aeneid in comprehensible Latin!Episode 0: https://youtu.be/vr2IdjRbPPk?si=TjyiYVEQCU4us5FvEpisode 1: https://youtu.be/LdGXknMxfVI?si=tu5dQ_myCqxa7tTQEpisode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKpk7akf5xQ&t=508sEpisode 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Sqs7rS0Ok

Jay Dyer's interview on Tucker Carlson this week once again proved how far Christians are willing to go out of either ignorance or malicious intent to slap their label on things that do not belong to them, even if they contributed to the same after the fact. Jay claimed that the Byzantine empire was the greatest in history of the world because of Christianity. He also claimed yoga was anti-Christian and magic was wicked, while simultaneously saying that he believed literal bread and wine could be turned into the literal flesh and blood of a God and then consumed. Constantinople was founded in 330 CE. Christianity was adopted as the state religion of the Roman empire in 380 CE. Byzantine was not referred to as such until approximately 100 years later. However, Byzantine was simply the eastern half of the Roman empire. Although Byzantine was primarily Christian, Christians did not build it from the ground because the eastern empire was a continuation of the collective empire, and it inherited all the same economic, social, legal, etc. elements from a primarily non-Christian world. To paint Byzantine as a Christian empire as opposed to the alternative Muslim world is dishonest because their greatest enemy was the non-Muslim Sasanian empire, which embraced Zoroastrianism -- a religion not dissimilar from, but far predating, Christianity. The Byzantine empire utilized slave labor to the same extent the Romans or Muslims used them. Further east, Laozi was writing the same things found in the New Testament 500 years before Jesus. Buddha was tempted by Mara, like Jesus was tempted, but 500 years before. It is entirely relative to talk about the first hospitals and schools being Christian, because most previous societies had them. In fact, the Chinese Han Dynasty had both long before Christendom and Byzantine. Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, all contributed to the university and hospital. The ancient Egyptians had medical centers and the Ancient Greeks had schools. The world's first and oldest continuously operating university is the University of Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco. Founded in 859 AD by a Muslim named Fatima al-Fihri. The University of Bologna in Italy was founded in 1088 AD and is widely regarded as the oldest university in Europe and the first institution to use the term universitas (meaning a corporation of students). However, Taixue is likely the oldest institutional university in the world, dating back to 124 BC under Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty. Just as eastern Roman Empire wasn't called "byzantine" until after its collapse, Christians like to take credit for the first university, which was only such in name, not in conception or function.*The is the FREE archive, which includes advertisements. If you want an ad-free experience, subscribe below.

In today's episode of The Quiz, we're testing your knowledge on everything from foundational American institutions to the linguistic keys of ancient civilizations. Can you answer these? Geometric Gems: While we often use a gemstone's name to describe a four-sided equilateral shape, geometry has a precise name for it. Can you recall its true mathematical term? Ivy League Leaders: A significant number of United States Commanders-in-Chief earned degrees from the country's oldest institution of higher learning. Do you know exactly how many attended this prestigious university? Cracking the Code: The discovery of the Rosetta Stone unlocked centuries of ancient history by displaying one message across three scripts. Aside from Hieroglyphics and Ancient Greek, what everyday cursive writing system completed the stone? Play. Share. Listen, with Chef Robert Irvine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Mothers Of Invention- Paralipomeni Della Batracomiomachia  Paris- 1970The December 1970 Paris gig was a standout date during their European tour. The setlist included iconic Zappa tracks and heavy improvisations like "Dog Breath," "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus," and "Call Any Vegetable". The band featured an incredible lineup that included:Frank Zappa (Guitar/Vocals)Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan (better known as Flo & Eddie)Ian Underwood (Keyboards/Woodwinds)Jeff Simmons (Bass)Aynsley Dunbar (Drums)Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention performed this legendary concert at the Gaumont-Palace in Paris, France on December 15, 1970. The show famously featured renowned French jazz violinist Jean-Luc PontyBatracomiomachia: Translates from Ancient Greek as the "Battle of the Frogs and Mice" (a classical comic epic parodying the Iliad).Paralipomeni: An Italian term for an appendix, sequel, or "things left out". The Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi wrote a famous satirical continuation titled Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia in 1831.1 |  | Penis Dimention | 11:262 |  | The Air | 3:533 |  | The Dog Breath / Mother People | 4:234 |  | You Didn't Try To Call Me | 3:345 |  | King Kong | 32:416 |  | Who Are The Brain Police? | 6:32

Is it possible to live forever? And if so, should we even want to? This hour, we discuss the search for immortality, from ancient philosophers to the elixir of life. Plus, a look at immortalizing public figures through obituaries. Guests: Tushar Irani is a Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University studying Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy. Philip Ball is a freelance science writer and the author of “Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science” William McDonald recently retired as the obituaries editor for the New York Times, a position that he held for the past 20 years. Music featured (in order): Galahad – Aoife O’Donovan You Only Live Twice – Nancy Sinatra If We Were Vampires – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Alchemy – Cam Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) – Ellen McIlwaine CUT FOR TIME I Don’t Want to Die (In the Hospital) – Connor Oberst Fame – Irene Cara The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Something is very wrong in the opening scenes of the Odyssey. The master of the house is gone. His wife is besieged. His son is powerless. And the men eating him out of house and home are waiting for the right moment to strike. Welcome to Part 1 (of 6!) of our new series, where we cover Homer's great epic. Part 1 covers Books 1 to 4, the monsters haven't arrived yet — but the groundwork for everything is laid here. What does it take to reestablish order once it has fallen? What kind of man can do it? Follow Telemachus as he learns to speak, to threaten, and to travel among serious men, and meet the figures who shape his fate: Athena, Penelope, Nestor, Menelaus, Helen, and the doomed suitors led by Antinous. As Christopher Nolan's film approaches, it's a perfect time to dust off a copy of Homer's Odyssey, and follow along this epic story in our 6-part retelling.Timestamps:0:00 Why the Odyssey begins with Odysseus's absence1:08 Introducing the show1:25 Book One: Athena visits Ithaca4:05 Telemachus welcomes the stranger7:33 The poem's opening lines and Odysseus's epithets10:06 Odysseus and the wrath of Poseidon11:43 The Council of the Gods13:58 Athena's plan to help Telemachus17:20 Athena's instructions: call an assembly19:08 The story of Orestes and Telemachus's zeal22:08 Penelope's first appearance27:00 Telemachus finds his courage29:25 Book Two: The Assembly begins31:56 Antinous defends the suitors35:59 The omen of the eagles37:55 Telemachus's plan revealed40:16 Athena returns as Mentor45:15 Telemachus sets sail for Pylos46:48 Book Three: Arrival at Pylos52:41 The story of Agamemnon and Aegisthus1:02:17 Book Four: Arrival in Sparta1:05:28 Helen's grand entrance1:11:41 Helen's magic drug1:19:50 Menelaus and Proteus, the shapeshifting sea god1:27:08 Menelaus's fate: the Elysian Fields1:32:09 The suitors plot to kill Telemachus1:33:23 Closing thoughtsCallouts:Special thanks to Dr. Richard Johnson for his longtime support of the show. You are Caesar and Odysseus's Top Guy!In tribute to the life and aspirations of Savitha Shanmugasundaram, a University of Texas at Austin honors student who died tragically in the March 1 mass shooting, her parents have established the Savitha Shan Endowed Scholarship at UT Austin. The fund is intended to extend Savitha's legacy by supporting the educational journeys of future UT Austin students. Please consider donating if you can. 

Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates is credited with saying, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”This line of thinking, developed nearly 2500 years ago, applies to our lives as Christian believers today. Let's examine the question: What does it mean to be a godly man?”There are many characteristics that come to mind when thinking about godliness and living the kind of life the Lord wants for us. Today, we're talking about honesty.In our culture—even in our Christian culture sometimes—lying is often treated as harmless. In fact, many of us lie automatically, without a second thought. Much of the time we aren't even aware we're being dishonest.We may exaggerate, change the facts “a little” so we look good, tell a police officer we didn't know we were speeding, cheat on our income taxes, or make up stories about our past. Sometimes we lie by omission, leaving out important details to protect our pride or avoid accountability.Proverbs 19:1 says, “Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.”Crooked in speech...in this verse, God's Word reveals just how well He knows our tendency toward sin, including dishonesty.As men and women after God's own heart, it is vital for us to examine our words, our deeds, and our actions to see that they fall in line with God's instructions for living, in order to fulfill His good plans for our lives.A godly man is honest.Let's pray.Lord God, thank you for calling us to be honest in every facet of our lives. Your Word reveals powerful truth for our lives. Thank you for your instruction, and your forgiveness when we fall short. God help us to be honest in word, deed, and action. In Jesus' name, amen. Change your shirt, and you can change the world! Save 15% Off your entire purchase of faith-based apparel + gifts at Kerusso.com with code KDD15.

American democracy is in a period of crisis, so it seems natural to look back to its origins. So here in Episode 10 of Season 5, I interview Professor Josiah Ober. Having previously taught at Princeton University, Ober is a professor of political science, classics, and philosophy at Stanford University, the Director of the Stanford Civics Initiative, […]

A new MP3 sermon from Alpha and Omega Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Inside Writing a Scholarly Article on Ancient Greek Literature Subtitle: The Dividing Line 2026 Speaker: Dr. James White Broadcaster: Alpha and Omega Ministries Event: Podcast Date: 6/11/2026 Length: 70 min.

Yeah, this will be a real barn-burner! A truly entertaining program! Lots of sound effects and humor! Clicks galore! Actually, none of that. After some general discussion and a bit more on the de-evolution of Mormonism, I spent the rest of the program discussing my work on a scholarly article responding to the theory that Pseudo-Dionysius is actually a first century production. See? Thrilling. Well, I do try to explain why, anyway. And our audience has learned that sometimes you have to do a deep dive to really get a foundation for important things.

Yeah, this will be a real barn-burner! A truly entertaining program! Lots of sound effects and humor! Clicks galore! Actually, none of that. After some general discussion and a bit more on the de-evolution of Mormonism, I spent the rest of the program discussing my work on a scholarly article responding to the theory that Pseudo-Dionysius is actually a first century production. See? Thrilling. Well, I do try to explain why, anyway. And our audience has learned that sometimes you have to do a deep dive to really get a foundation for important things.

The National Science Foundation has announced it will begin removing most of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a collection of roughly 900 instruments in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans that gathers fixed-point data on temperature, carbon dioxide levels, and more. The move is part of a broader trend within the current administration to shelve climate science research and reporting.   Also, today the Agora and Acropolis of Athens, Delphi on Mount Parnassus, and other Greek archaeological sites preserve not only cultural heritage, but also animal and plant species, including some that were around in ancient times and are described in historical accounts and Greek mythology. And the indigenous residents of Bougainville island in Papua New Guinea say their home used to provide them with everything they needed—shelter, fertile land, and clean water. That is until a copper and gold mine run by British-Australian company Rio Tinto set up shop and operated in the 1970s and 80s. Today, heavy metals like copper sulfate and cadmium still pollute waterways, and Theonila Roka Matbob, the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner for Islands and Island Nations, has been fighting for years to pressure Rio Tinto into taking full responsibility for remediating this damage. --   Save the date and sign up for the next virtual Living on Earth Book Club event on July 14 at 5 pm PDT / 8 pm EDT! We'll talk with Yurok activist and attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis about how multiple generations of her family have advocated for the protection of Northern California's Klamath River, a crucial habitat for salmon and the lifeblood of the Yurok tribe. Her book is The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life. You can sign up for this free event at loe.org/events.   Music licensed from Blue Dot Sessions: sessions.blue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Misha Glenny and guests discuss cybernetics – the field of study which gave us the prefix ‘cyber' and helped lay the foundations for the information age. After the Second World War, cybernetics emerged as the study of communication, feedback, and control in both animals and machines. Cybernetics was first defined in 1948 by the American mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) and aimed to find a shared universal language which could be used across disciplines. The name drew on an Ancient Greek word for steersman, the person who stands at the helm of a ship to steer or govern its course. Cybernetics saw the world as systems which used loops of information and feedback to adjust their own course of action. Those ideas could be applied to anything from thermostats to the human brain, and arguably laid foundations for the information age.WithJacob Ward Historian of science and technology at Maastricht UniversityJon Agar Professor of Science and Technology Studies at University College LondonAndOrit Halpern Lighthouse Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures at Technische Universität DresdenProducer: Martha OwenReading list:Peter Galison, 'The ontology of the enemy: Norbert Wiener and the cybernetic vision' (Critical Inquiry 21, 1994)Slava Gerovitch, From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (MIT Press, 2004)Orit Halpern, Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason (Duke University Press, 2015)Orit Halpern, Robert Mitchell and Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, The Smartness Mandate: Notes toward a Critique (Grey Room 68, 2017) Orit Halpern, Financializing Intelligence: On the Integration of Machines and Markets (e-flux, March 2023)N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (University of Chicago Press, 1999)Steve J. Heims, John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener, From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death (MIT Press, 1980)Ronald R. Kline, The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age The Information Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (MIT Press, 2011)David A. Mindell, Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future (University of Chicago Press, 2010)Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (first published 1950; Da Capo Press, 1988)In Our Time is a BBC Studios productionSpanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.