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Appointed by the Romans as king of Judaea and thanks to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ is one of the infamous figures from the whole of Ancient history. So what do we know about this ancient near eastern ruler, who in his lifetime had contacts with a series of ‘goliath’ figures from the ancient Mediterranean World: from Caesar to Cleopatra and from Marc Antony to Augustus. Dan Snow's History Hit podcast available at https://amzn.to/48HlmtH Books by Seth Schwartz available at https://amzn.to/49US5vJ ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon.com/markvinet SUPPORT this channel by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3POlrUD (Amazon gives us credit at NO extra charge to you). Mark Vinet's HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA podcast: www.parthenonpodcast.com/history-of-north-america Mark's TIMELINE Video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoricalJesu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Mark's books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM Audio credit: Dan Snow's History Hit podcast (Episode 1337: King Herod with Seth Schwartz, professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at New York City’s Columbia University). Audio excerpts reproduced under the Fair Use (Fair Dealings) Legal Doctrine for purposes such as criticism, comment, teaching, education, scholarship, research and news reporting.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we are getting to know Livia Drusilla, one of Rome's most powerful and influential women. Livia's life began with a solid Roman foundation, but little did anyone know that she was destined to become a woman whose name would echo through history. In this episodes, we'll go from her birth right up to her scandalous second marriage. We'll also re-visit some old Roman besties, Julius Caesar, Marc Antony and Octavian aka Augustus! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and Content Warning 01:14 Ancient Rome and Livia Drusilla 03:48 Patreon Shoutouts and Cocktail Talk 04:23 Livia's Birth and Early Life 06:56 Marriage and Family Dynamics 16:06 Livia's First Marriage 26:10 The Perils of Fleeing Rome 28:54 Life on the Run: The Harsh Realities 31:38 Return to Rome and New Beginnings 35:40 Meeting Octavian: A New Chapter 39:13 The Scandalous Union of Livia and Octavian 44:39 Octavia vs. Cleopatra: Role Models and Rivals 50:33 Conclusion: Livia's Future Unfolds Sources: The Exploress The Other Half podcast Wikipedia Queens podcast is part of Airwave Media podcast network. Please get in touch with advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Want more Queens? Head to our Patreon, check out our merch store, and follow us on Instagram! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Matthew 2: 13-23 (The Slaughter of the Innocents) Herod (and us): from temptation to possession Five Steps of Sin The temptation (logismoi) occurs.  We are NOT accountable for this. Interaction with the thought – what are the options?  What would it look like?  In his summary of Orthodox Spirituality in Mountain of Silence,  Fr. Maximos (now Mp. Athanasios of Limassol) says that this is not sin, either.  I disagree – a symptom of the disease we have is that it is all but impossible for us to imagine possibilities objectively.   Consent to do the sin.  This is always a sin, even if we do not carry out the action. Defeat to the idea.  Not only is this sin, it weakens us to future temptations. Passion, obsession, or possession by the temptation.   Let's look at Herod's descent into madness. He had an idea to kill all of the male infants.  This was not the only choice he had; others would have been less wicked – some may have even softened his heart enough to meet the Christ with joy.  This was the temptation. What happened when he interacted with this idea?  Moreover, what happened when he considered all the possibilities?  Was it a simple cost-benefit calculation, comparing all the options about how to react to the birth of the prophesied Messiah?    When he did the math, was it purely objective, or was the scale weighted in a certain direction by his feelings, feelings that were driven by his pride and desire to rule?  Remember that, as the King of the Jews, the people of God, he could have brought the Christ child into his palace and raised Him there to rule.  But that option was not the one that drew his attention – it was drawn towards murder.  It was drawn towards regicide and the slaughter of as many lives as necessary to guarantee it.  This was not because it was the best solution – it probably wasn't even the best way to keep himself in power.  But it felt right.  And so of all the ideas, or all the logismoi, both sinful and graceful, he focused on this one.  He imagined what it would look like, how it would work.  Which takes us to consent. He consented to the idea.  He entertained it, not just to imagine whether or not it could work or to figure out the best way to get it done – it was more than that.  He chewed on it.  And somewhere along the way, he made it happen. Next, he was defeated by it.  Not just because he pulled the trigger, but because it came to define part of how he defined himself.  He was a man who did whatever was necessary to keep himself in power.  All other things were defined and valued in relationship to this identity, to this desire, to this obsession. And this is the final step – he was possessed by it.  And here is a difficult truth about his path to possession: this was not the first time he had united himself with this kind of sin.  He had assassinated rivals, to include his own wife, to consolidate his power.  Even before that, he had waged war against his own people in order to capture Jerusalem.  Not to free it from the Romans, but in cooperation with the Roman general Marc Antony in order to put himself in charge.  Do you see how, once he had given in to sin – in this case, violence - for personal gain, it made it easier to do so in the future?  All of his fallen psychology kicked in to make repentance more and more difficult.  For example, the devaluation of the lives of others, the web of justifications and lies that he had to convince himself of in order to keep himself going?  For someone like this, it takes a real wake-up call to get them to change.  He got the call when the wise men came, but he didn't just hit the snooze button, he threw away the clock. “Send word so that I can go and worship Him myself.”  Doesn't that just drip with evil?  How would Herod worship Him; with gifts?  With prostrations?  That is how the kings from the east did!  Not at all.  Quite the opposite. What about us?  The wide road to sin-full-ness Now here is the rub.  I've been describing Herod's descent into madness, but that is the same wide road that beckons to us all.   What sins do we entertain?  What sins do we chew on?  Are we obsessed by?  What wickedness have we justified so fully that we feel its evil as good? And as if it wasn't enough that each of us individually, thanks to ancestral sin, cannot imagine sin without engaging with it, we are surrounded by cultural systems that seek to deaden our instinct for the holy and replace it with other things, like hedonism and power and self-loathing and anything else that the marketers of the powers of the air can distract us with. It's easy to see this happening in others.  We know people who have fallen into all kinds of sin and justified it.  They immerse themselves in an internet subculture and the next thing you know they are defining themselves in new ways that separate themselves from the good, the true, and the beautiful.   But it's so hard to see this in ourselves.  Herod had several baths of purification built into his temple.  He was so far gone that he didn't see the irony of maintaining ritual purity while living such a debauched and self-aggrandizing life.  We should be very concerned lest we fall in the same way. What sins do our own personalities, conditions, and cultures lead us to accept as normal or even good?  How can we get around the unreliability of our feelings – what we like to call our consciences when it comes to seeking the good?   How do we deal with the fact that we are so far from being able to see things as they are and weight alternatives objectively? What then, can we do? The first step is to admit that we have a problem.  To admit that the “old man” we put to death during our baptism is not entirely dead. The second step is to cultivate an instinct of humility, including the willingness to admit that we rarely as right as our self-confidence would have us believe. The third is to build relationships of accountability and discernment.  How do you react when people correct you or offer a version that differs from your own?  Taking criticisms well is a sign of spiritual maturity.  It's one that tyrants, narcissists, and sociopaths don't have.  And it's one that we are missing unless we work on it.  But we need it.  We need to have people in our lives that tell us the things that we miss, the things that we get wrong. Herod skipped all these steps, and he died in his sin. We have given our lives to Christ; we are called to something better than tyranny and the slaughter of innocents.   Let's learn to live the kinds of lives – lives in communities of mutual love, trust, and support – that give no place for temptations to grow. Let's live in Christ, together.  

The panel reads the fourth act, with special attention to the fraught relationship between Brutus and Cassius, the political situation in the late Roman Republic, and the declining fate of the conspiracy in the wake of Marc Antony's speech to the plebs.Continue reading

Send us a textYes, I know that Octavian IS Augustus, but this episode is about how Gaius Octavius became Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, and in doing so replaced the old Roman Republic with a military autocracy masquerading as a republic. This is the conclusion of our three part series on the fall of the Roman Republic. My cohost for all three episodes has been my good friend Dr. Jennifer Paxton of the Catholic University of America.This episode includes two audio snippets:Mark Antony's funeral oration for Caesar, from the 1953 film version of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" (with Marlon Brando as Brutus)"What have the Romans done for us?" from "Monty Python's The Life of Brian"Quotations from:Appian on Caesar's Funeral, trans. John Carter (https://www.livius.org/sources/content/appian/appian-caesars-funeral/)Res Gestae Divi Augusti ("the achievements of the deified Augustus"), trans. F.W. Shipley  (https://www.livius.org/sources/content/augustus-res-gestae/)Tacitus Agricola. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb (1877)Tacitus, Annals. Loeb Classical Library edition of Tacitus, 1931For another take on the story, I recommend listening to "Marc Antony vs. Octavian Caesar: Ancient Rome's Ruthless Rivals," a two part series on the podcast "Beef with Bridget Todd."As I am posting this a couple of days before Christmas and Hanukkah, I would like to wish you all Happy Holidays. And if you haven't yet listened to it, you might want to try our episode on how Hanukkah and Christmas were celebrated in the Middle Ages (with detours into how Hanukkah became the Jewish Christmas in the United States and why the Puritans tried to suppress Christmas).Listen on Podurama https://podurama.com Intro and exit music are by Alexander NakaradaIf you have questions, feel free to contact me at richard.abels54@gmail.com

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Chrissy's Arts.Based on a post by Quinn_McMullen, in 7 parts. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.“In a moment.” Her lips returned to mine, the oral sensations driving down my spine and sending extra blood to my crotch. We lay there necking for quite a while. For me, oral and tactile sensations are the strongest and Chrissy was putting those senses into overdrive.She settled lower so that her breasts were pressing into my chest. I moved my hands to her ass. She ran her fingers through my thinning hair, slicking it down with my sweat. “You are a sweaty boy.” She kissed me again, probing my mouth, then gently licking my lips. “Okay, I’m ready.” She dismounted and easily stood.I lay helpless on the blanket, gazing up at her lovely figure, erect nipples highlighting her t-shirt. “I’m not going to be very graceful getting up.”“I’ll help you.”I rolled onto my stomach, then gained my hands and knees. I held up a hand and Chrissy balanced me as I stood. She gathered up the blanket and we folded it together. We held hands again as we crossed the meadow back to the house.I cautioned, “Watch where you step with those bare feet. Some of these weeds have barbs.”Chrissy preceded me into the mudroom, “We should probably leave our clothes here. I have a shirt and jeans upstairs in your dresser.” She stood in front of me. “Let’s get rid of this sweaty shirt.”She pulled my shirt over my head. I pulled my arms out, then threw the shirt in the dirty clothes basket. I pulled hers up and her breasts were free. My tumescent cock was becoming harder. We both kicked our shoes off. We grabbed for each other’s pants like high school kids. I had hers off first and ran my fingers through her dark brown bush and down across her vulva. She stopped and looked at me, her mouth slightly open. I gently touched her clit on the way back and she sucked her breath in a little. Goose flesh stood out on her arms.She shivered, “Look what you did.”She dropped my jeans, revealing my cock at half-mast. She milked a drop of pre-cum, then bent down and licked it off. “That is so tasty.”My jeans were soon around my ankles and I stepped out of them.Chrissy threw her arms around my head and kissed me with an open mouth. I pulled her tight against me and straightened my back, lifting her off the floor. Her breasts pressed against me, her pubes on my stomach.She broke the kiss, “Upstairs.”She took my hand and pulled me toward the stairs. Chrissy released my hand and took them two at a time, racing to the claw-footed tub.When I reached the bathroom, she already had the water running and three towels on the rack. She tested the water. She made a temperature adjustment, then climbed in. This time she was on the showerhead side and I was on the drier side. She closed the shower curtain and stood under the showerhead. She reached out for me and pulled me into the stream of water. She raised her lips to mine. I met her with an open mouth, pulling her tight against me. Chrissy began running her fingers through my hair, massaging my scalp.I reached behind her and grabbed the shampoo. I switched places with her, applied some shampoo to her head, and began washing her hair, massaging her scalp. She got some suds on her hands and began kneading my chest hairs. She took a bit more and started stroking my erection.She said, “Here, switch. I need to rinse my hair.”“I don’t have any conditioner.”“That’s fine.”She rinsed the shampoo out. She grabbed the bar of soap from the dish and knelt before me, the water flowing over her body. She backed me up out of the stream of water and soaped up my cock, massaging my balls before starting to stroke my shaft. She forced her hand between my legs and I spread them for her. She went straight for my asshole. First, she rubbed the outside, then penetrated me with her finger. She started a short probing motion, finger fucking my ass for several minutes while simultaneously stroking my cock. She quickly drove me to the edge.I said, “Okay, you’ve got me close to cumming. You’ve gotta stop.”Chrissy stood and handed me the soap. We switched places again so that I was under the shower. Now I knelt before her and soaped her breasts, kneading her nipples. She placed her hands behind my neck and kissed my forehead. I lathered up her pubic hair, running my fingers through the dark delta. I washed her labia, then focused on her clit. I had that little button as clean as could be. I looked up and she had grabbed the handle, her eyes closed, and her mouth open. I used the same move Chrissy had used and found her asshole. I rubbed her anus, then slipped my finger into her ass. I finger fucked her as she had fucked me. She grabbed my hand that was rubbing her clit and pulled it away.She smiled wickedly, “Let’s go to your bed. Hurry, masturbation party.”Chrissy wrapped her hair in a towel and helped me over the lip of the tub. She pulled me down the hall and into the bedroom. She propped herself on the pillows at the head of the bed. She spread her legs wide, with her coochie pointed at me. She stared lustfully at me as she started playing with herself.I stood before her. I still had an erection, but I was damp and needed some lube. “Rub some of your juices on me.”Chrissy stuck her fingers into her cooch and smeared her fluids on me. Three more times she went to the well, then stroked me a few times. That was all I needed. I stroked myself as I knew best. She was vigorously rubbing her clit, one hand twisting her nipple. It was so hot watching her watching me, her fingers probing her cooch, fingers vigorously rubbing her clit. I stroked myself, but it didn’t take me long.I said, “Bring yourself over here.”Chrissy lay on her back, hung her head over the edge, and opened her mouth. Her hands never stopped pleasuring herself.My first shot of cum landed on her chin and neck, but the rest dribbled into her mouth. She reached up and grabbed me, milking my cock for cum. She wiped the pearl necklace from her neck and sucked her finger. Then she rolled over and grabbed my cock. She wrapped her lips around me and began sucking hard, stroking me, milking me. Then she took me all the way into her throat. Her swallowing action sending shocks up my spine. She pulled off and licked her lips for any cum. Then she knelt back and held her hands out to me. I stepped forward and she put her arms around my neck, then kissed me with an open mouth.I entwined my tongue with hers and was surprised to not find much taste there. “I can’t taste my cum.”“I swallowed every drop. You really taste good.”I kissed her again, “You kind of broke the rules though.”“I know. I got a little carried away. That was hot spreading my juices on your cock. I love watching you stroke yourself. I love you watching me diddle myself. I absolutely love sucking on you. Next to actually fucking, this might be one of my favorite things to do. I feel so open and vulnerable.”I kissed her again, “Perhaps we should dry your hair.”“Or not.”Chapter 8.It was about 7:30 on Sunday evening. I was in the study in my lazy boy, looking at Google News when I heard a knock on the doorframe.“Hey.” Zoë was standing in the doorway smiling. She was wearing a loose-fitting, light blue top with spaghetti straps and a matching horizontally striped mini-skirt. The hem was only an inch or two below her crotch.“Oh, I didn’t hear you. You’re so quiet.”I started to get up from my chair, but she came over and actually stood on the seat. She hesitated for a few moments so I could look up at her exposed vulva. Then somehow she positioned herself on my lap with her silky legs on either side of my torso. She put her arms behind my neck and kissed me. Her skirt was slightly askew giving me a wonderful view of that luscious brunette coochie. I placed a hand on each leg, enjoying the smoothness.Zoë confessed, “I love going commando in a mini-skirt. It’s very exciting.” She leaned forward and kissed me again.“We might have to take you out on the town like that.”“I’d like that, but one of our rules is that we can’t date, remember?”“What rules that we can’t date? I thought we could date.”“Oh. Okay. I would love to have another date with you.”“We could also have a group outing like when all you ladies go out dancing together.”“I’ve worn this outfit to the club! Sometimes I will twirl so that my skirt spins out and anyone watching closely will see I’m not wearing anything underneath. Before the pandemic, we went dancing and I knew these lesbians were watching me. I was twirling all night. Being watched in public turns me on like nothing else."Part of me is that maybe a date might not be a good idea. Friday was so romantic and I don’t think that is good for me. I will fall further in love with you. I fear that someday you are going to break my heart.”“I pray I never do that.”“Also, I hope you don’t mind, but I originally got the dress I wore on Friday for Anders’ wedding. In fact, he picked it out for me so I hope you don’t mind seeing me in it twice.”“Not at all. You are stunningly beautiful in that dress.”Zoë asked, “Can I tell you something?”“Sure.”She took my hands, brought them to her lips, and kissed them. “In all my thirty-nine years I have never had a man bring me to an orgasm like that. Actually, I’ve never had a man bring me to an orgasm, period. All my orgasms have been self-induced.”“If you don’t mind me asking, how many men have you been with?”“You are the fourth. You are the only man I would call a lover. My first time was in college and it was an awful experience. I know I was a virgin, but he rushed it and I was kind of dry. He took my virginity and he really hurt me. I think he tore up the inside of my cooch and I bled a lot, as in copious amounts of blood running down my legs. I think it was a lot like being raped, except technically it wasn’t rape. Guys didn’t worry about things like consent back then. I didn’t get the feeling he cared about me. He was pissed because I was bleeding on everything. I dumped him the next day."The second guy was in grad school. I had been going with this guy for a long time, three months probably. He pressured me into sex. We saw each other for about another three months. Every weekend he wanted to fuck and it was just that; fucking. There wasn’t any love involved. One night when he had had a few too many, he asked me for a blow job, then he grabbed my head and jammed his cock down my throat. I gagged, then bit him hard, and ran out of there. I never saw him again. Sex has been traumatic for me.”I said, “How awful. What about the third guy?”“I think I told you a little about Jared. I dated him for about three years. He’s a really nice guy and all. For a while, I thought he was husband material, but the embers never caught fire. He was sort of attentive when it came to sex, but it never felt intimate. Sex with Jared always felt mechanical. He would lick my lady parts to get me wet, and then it was bang, bang, bang and it was over. Never like what you did on Friday.” She laughed. “I shouldn’t tell you this, but since you’ll never meet him, who cares?”“What?”“I wouldn’t call it a micro-penis, but he was pretty small.”I asked, “How small?”She held her fingers about two inches apart.“I’ve seen a lot of penises over the years, mostly in community showers and locker rooms and that is pretty small. Although, I saw one guy in the Navy that was pretty much all balls. His penis was probably less than an inch, kind of propped up on his scrotum.”“Like Michelangelo’s David?”“Smaller.”Zoë smiled, “What’s the biggest cock you’ve ever seen?”“One of my college roommates was pretty hung. Like around eight inches long or so. He loved to show it off. Walking back and forth to the shower he would use a really small towel. Got a lot of attention from the ladies.”“Well I have to say, I am absolutely in love with your cock; Quinn. It is just right.”I leaned over and kissed her, “Thank you my love, but I’m really just an average guy, who’s completely comfortable with his averageness. Anything else on your mind?”Zoë said, “I want to know the mechanics of how you made me cum like that.”“It kind of loses the romance then.”“I just want to know how my body works.”“I’ll keep it simple: foreplay, erogenous zones, clitoris, and g-spot.”“G-spot?”“On the top of your vagina there’s a spot of tissue that is kind of magical. It’s about two or three inches in. When it isn’t ready, it feels spongy. When you are near orgasm, it begins to feel wrinkly. I try to rub it with one or two fingers and it makes a regular orgasm extra special.”“I’m going to try and find it.”“Well, that could be one of our experiments. By the way, have you given any thought to what you want to learn about your body and mine?”Zoë smiled and kissed my hands again. “Okay, so I have become an internet sex fiend. I have been looking up all these ways to have sex.”“Let me hear about them.”“I know you will never think I’m slutty, but all this makes me feel slutty. It sounds so interesting and sexy and exciting. I have to do this in my room because I want to play with myself. I do play with myself. I have to be careful with Johnny running around.”“So, I want you to do that for me. Play with yourself in front of me.”She smiled, “Would you like that?”“It would be so hot. So what have you been looking at that makes you want to play with yourself?”“So one thing I want to learn about is you. I want to learn about how to give you an amazing blow job.”“I like the sound of that.”“I also want to learn how to deep throat you.”“Okay, that may be a lot harder, no pun intended.”“I will have you know that puns are the highest form of humor. There are all these amazing sex positions that look like so much fun. We’re going to try all of them.”“Okay.”“And…” She held her breath.“What?”“I want to try anal.”“I have to tell you I have no experience there.”She smiled and kissed me, “So, we’ll learn together.” Then she looked at me kind of funny.I asked, “What?”“I think you need to know this, but I will probably have my period next weekend, for Anders’ wedding.”“That’s cool. It’s never stopped me before.”“You’ve had period sex?”“It’s great. You just need to put some old towels down.”“Do you lick me all bloody and everything?”“I’ve always left the tampon in while dining. Do you use tampons?”She nodded.I continued, “I would just pull out the tampon when the time comes for inserting my cock in the cooch. Sometimes you need to use lube though. The tampon sometimes seems to suck up all your juices. At other times all the blood makes things very slick.”“That doesn’t gross you out?”“Not at all.”Zoë was giddy with excitement. “Okay, we can try that. I was also thinking that we could try anal on my period.”“I will do whatever you want to do.”“And something I want to do for you. I want to learn how to massage your prostate.”“Something else I don’t have much experience with. So what do you want to do this evening?”“I know we did this on Friday, but could you make me cum like that again? Chrissy said I was glowing on our hike. I felt like I was walking on a cloud. Then I would like to try a couple of positions.”This entire conversation was amazing. Her sexuality seemed to be blossoming before me. I watched this less-than-confident woman who had described her first time as akin to rape, now getting excited about anal and period sex.I grinned, “You are making me hard talking about this.”“I’m making myself wet talking about everything.”“Really?” I ran my fingers across her coochie, “Oh, you are really wet.”I put my wet fingers in my mouth.“You really like the way I taste, don’t you?”I dipped my finger into her coochie again and brought it out, “Zoë, what you have here will drive a man crazy. You know how Cleopatra seduced Marc Antony? How Josephine seduced Napoleon?”She shook her head.I held up my wet finger. “Right here. Before perfume was invented there was coochie juice. I kid you not. Do you want to drive a man wild? Use your personal perfume. A little dab behind your ears and on your wrist. Maybe a dab between your breasts. Don’t overdo it. This is powerful stuff.”Zoë reached down, dampened her finger, and applied the moisture as I directed.I persisted, “Just like that. Your pheromones will drive anyone attracted to you wild. They won’t know what hit them. Personally, I live for the taste and smell of a woman. My love, you have a taste and smell that is intoxicating. Your taste is making me really hard right now.”“Well, let’s go upstairs!”Zoë stood and stepped off the chair. She grabbed my hand and pulled me along. I have never seen someone so excited to have sex. Her blouse and skirt were off before we got into the room. She sat on the edge of the bed and went for my fly. She had my shorts off while I pulled my shirt over my head. She jumped onto the bed and held out her hand.The light from outside was fading, so I turned on the end table light.Then I sat down next to her. “So, before we start, you need to know something about me. I’m not a young man. I think I have one good erection and one ejaculation in me per day.”Zoë crawled up on her hands and knees, “Friday night you had two erections. Remember when I got you really hard in the middle of the night so I could sleep with you inside me.”“Okay, so maybe I’m wrong on that account. I just don’t want you to get high expectations of how I am going to satisfy you.”She leaned in and kissed me, “Quinn, I will be satisfied just being with you.”I began fondling her breasts that were just there for the touching. “What would you l

HISTORY This Week returns with new episodes starting September 16th! In the meantime, listen to a favorite classic from the archives. September 2, 31 BCE. Two camps prepare for battle off the coast of Greece. On one side is Octavian, Julius Caesar's heir apparent. On the other, Marc Antony and his lover, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. This battle won't just determine the leader of Rome, but the fate of global civilization. How did Cleopatra wind up in the middle of a Roman game of tug of war? And how did the Battle of Actium change our world forever? Special thanks to our guest, Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium. This episode originally aired on August 29, 2022. To stay updated: historythisweekpodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode of Shakespod dives into the history of theatre in China and when and how Shakespeare made his arrival there. Special Guest: James Lucas performing Marc Antony from Julius Caesar. Sources: SHAKESPEARE IN CHINA Ho Hsiang-Lin The ComparatistVol. 13 (MAY 1989), pp. 11-21 (11 pages)Published By: University of North Carolina Press Shakespeare Reception in China by Yanna Sun Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 1931-1938, September 2012 © 2012 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. Why China's Love Affair With Shakespeare Endures Enid Tsui, Post Magazine https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/1996061/why-chinas-love-affair-shakespeare-endures Shakespeare in China L.E. https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2017/03/12/shakespeare-in-china/ Royalty-Free Renaissance music provided by:Pixabay --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/svshakes/support

King Herod is probably one of the most, if not the most, ruthless character in the Holy Bible. Brilliant, but evil. And yet, his paranoia that led him to kill several members of his own family and issue an edict to kill all the children under two in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, still wasn't enough to thwart God's plan, the birth of a Savior. This is why Kathie Lee Gifford, TV personality, best-selling author, singer and composer, is fascinated with this character. On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, Gifford talks about her newest book "Herod And Mary: The True Story Of The Tyrant King And The Mother Of The Risen Savior",  plus her recovering from her health emergency and the faith that is getting her through it all. Gifford researched the historical documents on King Herod and found some interesting swaths of information, like his friendship with Marc Antony and Cleopatra, Rome's power couple. But also, Herod may have occupied a blip in the biblical narrative, but his historical presence was significant, a master architect and powerful politician. But his undoing was his debauchery and derangement. Gifford says Herod's story is a testament to the fact that "When the world thought nothing more evil could be happening in the world, something far more glorious than anything that had ever happened was happening in the womb of a little teenage girl from Nazareth." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zoë, Chris and Quinn settle in with their new arrangements.By Quinn_McMullen, in 8 parts. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels. Chapter 8It was about 7:30 on Sunday evening. I was in the study in my lazy boy, looking at Online News when I heard a knock on the doorframe."Hey." Zoë was standing in the doorway smiling. She was wearing a loose-fitting, light blue top with spaghetti straps and a matching horizontally striped mini-skirt. The hem was only an inch or two below her crotch."Oh, I didn't hear you. You're so quiet."I started to get up from my chair, but she came over and actually stood on the seat. She hesitated for a few moments so I could look up at her exposed vulva. Then somehow she positioned herself on my lap with her silky legs on either side of my torso. She put her arms behind my neck and kissed me. Her skirt was slightly askew giving me a wonderful view of that luscious blonde cunt. I placed a hand on each leg, enjoying the smoothness.Zoë confessed, "I love going commando in a mini-skirt. It's very exciting." She leaned forward and kissed me again."We might have to take you out on the town like that.""I'd like that, but one of our rules is that we can't date, remember?""What rules that we can't date? I thought we could date.""Oh. Okay. I would love to have another date with you.""We could also have a group outing like when all you ladies go out dancing together.""I've worn this outfit to the club! Sometimes I will twirl so that my skirt spins out and anyone watching closely will see I'm not wearing anything underneath. Before the pandemic, we went dancing and I knew these lesbians were watching me. I was twirling all night. Being watched in public turns me on like nothing else."Part of me is that maybe a date might not be a good idea. Friday was so romantic and I don't think that is good for me. I will fall further in love with you. I fear that someday you are going to break my heart.""I pray I never do that.""Also, I hope you don't mind, but I originally got the dress I wore on Friday for Anders' wedding. In fact, he picked it out for me so I hope you don't mind seeing me in it twice.""Not at all. You are stunningly beautiful in that dress."Zoë asked, "Can I tell you something?""Sure."She took my hands, brought them to her lips, and kissed them. "In all my thirty-nine years I have never had a man bring me to an orgasm like that. Actually, I've never had a man bring me to an orgasm, period. All my orgasms have been self-induced.""If you don't mind me asking, how many men have you been with?""You are the fourth. You are the only man I would call a lover. My first time was in college and it was an awful experience. I know I was a virgin, but he rushed it and I was kind of dry. He took my virginity and he really hurt me. I think he tore up the inside of my vagina and I bled a lot, as in copious amounts of blood running down my legs. I think it was a lot like being raped, except technically it wasn't rape. Guys didn't worry about things like consent back then. I didn't get the feeling he cared about me. He was pissed because I was bleeding on everything. I dumped him the next day."The second guy was in grad school. I had been going with this guy for a long time, three months probably. He pressured me into sex. We saw each other for about another three months. Every weekend he wanted to fuck and it was just that,  fucking. There wasn't any love involved. One night when he had had a few too many, he asked me for a blow job, then he grabbed my head and jammed his penis down my throat. I gagged, then bit him hard, and ran out of there. I never saw him again. Sex has been traumatic for me."I said, "How awful. What about the third guy?""I think I told you a little about Jared. I dated him for about three years. He's a really nice guy and all. For a while, I thought he was husband material, but the embers never caught fire. He was sort of attentive when it came to sex, but it never felt intimate. Sex with Jared always felt mechanical. He would lick my lady parts to get me wet, and then it was bang, bang, bang and it was over. Never like what you did on Friday." She laughed. "I shouldn't tell you this, but since you'll never meet him, who cares?""What?""I wouldn't call it a micro-penis, but he was pretty small."I asked, "How small?"She held her fingers about two inches apart."I've seen a lot of penises over the years, mostly in community showers and locker rooms and that is pretty small. Although, I saw one guy in the Navy that was pretty much all balls. His penis was probably less than an inch, kind of propped up on his scrotum.""Like Michelangelo's David?""Smaller."Zoë smiled, "What's the biggest penis you've ever seen?""One of my college roommates was pretty hung. Like around eight inches long or so. He loved to show it off. Walking back and forth to the shower he would use a really small towel. Got a lot of attention from the ladies.""Well I have to say, I am absolutely in love with your penis Quinn. It is just right."I leaned over and kissed her, "Thank you my love, but I'm really just an average guy, who's completely comfortable with his averageness. Anything else on your mind?"Zoë said, "I want to know the mechanics of how you made me cum like that.""It kind of loses the romance then.""I just want to know how my body works.""I'll keep it simple: foreplay, erogenous zones, clitoris, and g-spot.""G-spot?""On the top of your vagina there's a spot of tissue that is kind of magical. It's about two or three inches in. When it isn't ready, it feels spongy. When you are near orgasm, it begins to feel wrinkly. I try to rub it with one or two fingers and it makes a regular orgasm extra special.""I'm going to try and find it.""Well, that could be one of our experiments. By the way, have you given any thought to what you want to learn about your body and mine?"Zoë smiled and kissed my hands again. "Okay, so I have become an internet sex fiend. I have been looking up all these ways to have sex.""Let me hear about them.""I know you will never think I'm slutty, but all this makes me feel slutty. It sounds so interesting and sexy and exciting. I have to do this in my room because I want to play with myself. I do play with myself. I have to be careful with Johnny running around.""So, I want you to do that for me. Play with yourself in front of me."She smiled, "Would you like that?""It would be so hot. So what have you been looking at that makes you want to play with yourself?""So one thing I want to learn about is you. I want to learn about how to give you an amazing blow job.""I like the sound of that.""I also want to learn how to deep throat you.""Okay, that may be a lot harder, no pun intended.""I will have you know that puns are the highest form of humor. There are all these amazing sex positions that look like so much fun. We're going to try all of them.""Okay.""And..." She held her breath."What?""I want to try anal.""I have to tell you I have no experience there."She smiled and kissed me, "So, we'll learn together." Then she looked at me kind of funny.I asked, "What?""I think you need to know this, but I will probably have my period next weekend, for Anders' wedding.""That's cool. It's never stopped me before.""You've had period sex?""It's great. You just need to put some old towels down.""Do you lick me all bloody and everything?""I've always left the tampon in while dining. Do you use tampons?"She nodded.I continued, "I would just pull out the tampon when the time comes for inserting penis in vagina. Sometimes you need to use lube though. The tampon sometimes seems to suck up all your juices. At other times all the blood makes things very slick.""That doesn't gross you out?""Not at all."Zoë was giddy with excitement. "Okay, we can try that. I was also thinking that we could try anal on my period.""I will do whatever you want to do.""And something I want to do for you. I want to learn how to massage your prostate.""Something else I don't have much experience with. So what do you want to do this evening?""I know we did this on Friday, but could you make me cum like that again? Chris said I was glowing on our hike. I felt like I was walking on a cloud. Then I would like to try a couple of positions."This entire conversation was amazing. Her sexuality seemed to be blossoming before me. I watched this less-than-confident woman who had described her first time as akin to rape, now getting excited about anal and period sex.I grinned, "You are making me hard talking about this.""I'm making myself wet talking about everything.""Really?" I ran my fingers across her cunt, "Oh, you are really wet."I put my wet fingers in my mouth."You really like the way I taste, don't you?"I dipped my finger into her cunt again and brought it out, "Zoë, what you have here will drive a man crazy. You know how Cleopatra seduced Marc Antony? How Josephine seduced Napoleon?"She shook her head.I held up my wet finger. "Right here. Before perfume was invented there was cunt juice. I kid you not. Do you want to drive a man wild? Use your personal perfume. A little dab behind your ears and on your wrist. Maybe a dab between your breasts. Don't overdo it. This is powerful stuff."Zoë reached down, dampened her finger, and applied the moisture as I directed.I persisted, "Just like that. Your pheromones will drive anyone attracted to you wild. They won't know what hit them. Personally, I live for the taste and smell of a woman. My love, you have a taste and smell that is intoxicating. Your taste is making me really hard right now.""Well, let's go upstairs!"Zoë stood and stepped off the chair. She grabbed my hand and pulled me along. I have never seen someone so excited to have sex. Her blouse and skirt were off before we got into the room. She sat on the edge of the bed and went for my fly. She had my shorts off while I pulled my shirt over my head. She jumped onto the bed and held out her hand.The light from outside was fading, so I turned on the end table light.Then I sat down next to her. "So, before we start, you need to know something about me. I'm not a young man. I think I have one good erection and one ejaculation in me per day."Zoë crawled up on her hands and knees, "Friday night you had two erections. Remember when I got you really hard in the middle of the night so I could sleep with you inside me.""Okay, so maybe I'm wrong on that account. I just don't want you to get high expectations of how I am going to satisfy you."

The panel closes discussion of Dryden's All for Love with an examination of the death of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, how the scene differs from that of Shakespeare, and what role is ultimately played by Octavius, even despite his absence from the stage.Continue reading

Ray Cappo is the singer of Youth Of Today and Shelter, two hardcore bands we grew up listening to. He's now a yoga teacher to the teachers and our new personal guru. His new book, From Punk To Monk, is out now. We chat about Marc Antony, which emails to respond to, moving upstate in 08, never having a real job, celibacy, pulling over on the side of the road to cook rice and lentils, the power of ghee, this missing ingredient in health food, removing low frequencies, how he felt on a raw diet, why is jiu-jitsu a sober man's sport? If he came up with his book's title himself, and we compare colored vinyl to non gold standard currency. instagram.com/raghunathyogi twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Passions Podcast LeTara discusses episodes 666-670 of Passions with returning guest host Maria. And be sure to check out our recent interview with McKenzie Westmore! To view the entire interview go to Patreon.com/Passionspodcast and buy the digital download or join any paid tier of the Patreon. Visit our Link Tree to watch episodes of Passions, buy merch, join the Patreon, leave a tip or follow us on social media: https://linktr.ee/Passionspodcast Want to support the podcast, but don't want to commit to a monthly contribution? Leave a one time tip here: https://tr.ee/Hpxzzi9JX4 To support this podcast and watch episodes along with us you can visit passionspodcast.com or Join our Patreon Patreon.com/passionspodcast Recap via Soapcentral.com February 18 to 22, 2002 Tabitha told Timmy and Zombie Charity how she ended Luis and Sheridan's love when they lived as Marc Antony and Cleopatra. Brian tried to help "Diana" move on with her life, while Beth and Hank did the same for Luis. A furious TC held Chad responsible for Whitney's condition and attacked the young man when he stopped by to check on her. Later, Chad sneaked into Whitney's bedroom, where a still-drugged up Whitney tried to seduce him. Eve freaked out when she found Chad and her daughter in a compromising position. Miguel, Reese, and Jessica struggled to get inside the cave while Kay subtly thwarted their efforts. Thanks to Miguel and Charity¹s love, Charity's ice block began to melt. Zombie Charity panicked when her powers failed to stop the real Charity from defrosting. Tabitha and the Zombie feared they were about to be discovered, while Timmy rooted for his beloved Charity. Music: Cartoon Bank Heist - Doug Maxwell, Media Right Productions • Cartoon Bank Heist – Doug Maxwell, Me... Soar by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckleyCr. Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/passions-podcast/message

The panel discusses the third act of Dryden's most successful play, All for Love, with particular attention to Marc Antony's lack of constancy, and Dryden's artistic reimagining of historical events in order to place Octavia in Cleopatra's palace.Continue reading

Send us a Text Message.Upon the assassination of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, the formidable Queen of the Nile, faces her greatest trials yet. The landscape of Ancient Egypt shifts like the desert sands and deception lurks in the shadows, yet again. Cleopatra, joined by her love, Marc Antony, confront the looming shadow of Rome's vengeance while struggling to preserve her Ancient Egyptian kingdom and legacy. The story of two souls, bound by love and ambition, will shape the course of history with their unwavering resolve, and intertwine their destinies with the rise and fall of an empire. Watch the video version here: https://youtube.com/live/yVbdqBgpvewDon't forget, you can watch us live on Tuesday nights at 8PM CST - U.S. on YouTube and Facebook! Support the Show: Patreon (Bonus Content)Follow us on Social Media: YouTube ChannelFacebook Fan PageInstagram Fan Page X (formerly Twitter)TikTok Fan Page"After Dark with EVP" (Use code "AFTERDARK25" for 25% off an annual subscription)https://bit.ly/46GOmAzSubmit Your Story, Comments, or Questions: theevppod@gmail.com

The panel reads the first act of John Dryden's take on the story of Antony and Cleopatra, All for Love, with a focus on Marc Antony's mental state, the military situation with which he is confronted, and whether he is at fault for his circumstances.Continue reading

This week Kelly and Katai read ROYAL DIARIES: CLEOPATRA VII, DAUGHTER OF THE NILE by Kristina Gregory, the touching story of Cleopatra when she was apparently at her most boring. They talk never choosing a Pilgrim-ass bitch, getting turned around which Ptolemy is which, Marc Antony being a perv, being pro-Christ pre-Christ, and more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://discord.com/invite/FYp4QNhruE https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencreepspod https://www.facebook.com/teencreepspod BUY TEEN CREEPS MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/teen-creeps TEEN CREEPS IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/teen-creeps *All creepy opinions expressed are those of the hosts and guests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Kelly and Katai read ROYAL DIARIES: CLEOPATRA VII, DAUGHTER OF THE NILE by Kristina Gregory, the touching story of Cleopatra when she was apparently at her most boring. They talk never choosing a Pilgrim-ass bitch, getting turned around which Ptolemy is which, Marc Antony being a perv, being pro-Christ pre-Christ, and more!SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free and video versions of our episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and more:https://www.patreon.com/teencreepsCONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS:https://discord.com/invite/FYp4QNhruEhttps://twitter.com/teencreepspodhttps://www.instagram.com/teencreepspodhttps://www.facebook.com/teencreepspodBUY TEEN CREEPS MERCH:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/teen-creepsTEEN CREEPS IS A FOREVER DOG PODCASThttps://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/teen-creeps*All creepy opinions expressed are those of the hosts and guests. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON for ad free and video episodes, bonus episodes, and more:⁠https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps⁠ CONNECT:⁠https://discord.com/invite/FYp4QNhruE⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/teencreepspod⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/teencreepspod⁠ MERCH:⁠https://www.teepublic.com/stores/teen-creeps⁠ TEEN CREEPS IS AN INDEPENDENT PODCAST. *All creepy opinions expressed are those of the hosts and guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Denzel Washington stars in this intense drama/thriller as Creasey, a sad, alcoholic ex-CIA assassin who finds a new purpose in life as he forms a special friendship with the precocious Pita played by Dakota Fanning.  Pita is the daughter of a Mexican industrialist played by Marc Antony who has hired Creasey to serve as a bodyguard since there has been a rash of kidnappings in their area.  Tragedy occurs and then Creasey sets off on a brutal mission of revenge where we see his old habits as a trained killer start to manifest themselves.   As directed by the late great Tony Scott, this was a film which saw modest success upon initial release twenty years ago but has since gone to grow a significant following.See below for a link to an alternative ending for this movie as discussed within this review:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RQWlXoD_s&t=170sHost & Editor: Geoff GershonProducer: Marlene Gershon https://livingforthecinema.com/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Living-for-the-Cinema-Podcast-101167838847578Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/livingforthecinema/Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/Living4Cinema/

The panel reads the fourth act of Antony and Cleopatra with particular attention to the character of Marc Antony and his worldview of personal honour and prowess, in conflict with the political schemes and grand designs of both Octavius and Cleopatra.Continue reading

The panel discusses the third act, with a focus on the deterioration of the Roman political situation, Marc Antony's skills as a battlefield leader and a political figure, and the sophisticated psychological understanding of both Octavius and Cleopatra.Continue reading

We enter the world beyond the Republic with the first Roman to have earned the cognomen "Germanicus", through blood sweat and tears.  Grandson of Marc Antony, son of Livia, step-son to Octavian, you might think that he was tempted to live in the lap of luxury but instead, Drusus was cut from an older cloth.  Determined to win military glory, and to live an exemplary life, he did so in spades before that life was cut short, but not before he planted some extraordinary seeds.  

Appointed by the Romans as king of Judaea and thanks to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great' is one of the infamous figures from the whole of Ancient history. So what do we know about this ancient near eastern ruler, who in his lifetime had contacts with a series of ‘goliath' figures from the ancient Mediterranean World: from Caesar to Cleopatra and from Marc Antony to Augustus. Dan Snow's History Hit podcast available at https://amzn.to/48HlmtH  Books by Seth Schwartz available at https://amzn.to/49US5vJ WELCOME to our newest Patreon members Leslie, Dennis, Laura, Jack, and Kate at https://patreon.com/markvinet where you can get exclusive access to Bonus episodes, Ad-Free content, Extra materials, when joining our growing community.  SUPPORT this series by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM (Amazon gives us credit at no extra charge to you). It costs you nothing to shop using this FREE store entry link and by doing so encourages & helps us create more quality content. Thanks! Mark Vinet's HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA podcast: www.parthenonpodcast.com/history-of-north-america                                                  Mark's TIMELINE video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels  Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoricalJesu   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9  YouTube Podcast Playlist: https://www.bit.ly/34tBizu  TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@historyofnorthamerica  Books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM  Linktree: https://linktr.ee/WadeOrganization                                                                Credit: Dan Snow's History Hit podcast (Episode 1337: King Herod with Seth Schwartz, professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at New York City's Columbia University). Audio excerpts reproduced under the Fair Use (Fair Dealings) Legal Doctrine for purposes such as criticism, comment, teaching, education, scholarship, research and news reporting.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?. the generation gap. 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?. the VW Bus. 3: Do you vote Green Party or write in this comedy duo who went "Up in Smoke" in the '70s?. Cheech and Chong. 4: Moving to Oregon? Does that have anything to do with the passage of measure 91 on the legalization of this?. marijuana. 5: Did you really witness the birth of this rhyming movement at an anti-war rally at UC Berkeley in 1965?. flower power. Round 2. Category: Quoting The Shakespeare Character 1: "I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me". Bottom. 2: "Tell me, my daughters... which of you shall we say doth love us most". King Lear. 3: "For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men". Marc Antony. 4: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'". Henry V. 5: "Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands". Ariel. Round 3. Category: Pulitzer Prize Categories 1: Bill Mauldin in 1945 and 1959. Cartooning. 2: Joe Rosenthal in 1945 for work done on Iwo Jima. Photography. 3: Robert Lowell in 1947 and 1974. Poetry. 4: Samuel Barber in 1958 and 1963. Music. 5: David McCullough, twice. Biography. Round 4. Category: Good Sportsmanship 1: J.P. Hayes cost himself a 2009 spot on this tour by confessing to using an unapproved ball. the PGA tour. 2: In 2008 Central Wash. players of this sport carried injured Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon around the bases. softball. 3: Mike Bossy and Alexander Mogilny have won the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct in this sport. hockey. 4: The chronicles of this hard-serving American include, in 2005, calling an opponent's shot in, costing himself the match. Andy Roddick. 5: This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the "bad boys" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award. Joe Dumars. Round 5. Category: LandS Of The World. With Land in quotes 1: This 840,000-square mile area belonging to Denmark lies within 15 miles of Canada. Greenland. 2: The crusade of Father Theobald Mathew reduced this island's whiskey intake by half in the early 1840s. Ireland. 3: From 1900 to 1982 Sobhuza II was king of this country surrounded on 3 sides by South Africa. Swaziland. 4: It's the only U.S. state that fits the category. Maryland (or Rhode Island). 5: Poet John Donne compared his mistress' body to this Canadian province. Newfoundland. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?. the generation gap. 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?. the VW Bus. 3: Do you vote Green Party or write in this comedy duo who went "Up in Smoke" in the '70s?. Cheech and Chong. 4: Moving to Oregon? Does that have anything to do with the passage of measure 91 on the legalization of this?. marijuana. 5: Did you really witness the birth of this rhyming movement at an anti-war rally at UC Berkeley in 1965?. flower power. Round 2. Category: Quoting The Shakespeare Character 1: "I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me". Bottom. 2: "Tell me, my daughters... which of you shall we say doth love us most". King Lear. 3: "For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men". Marc Antony. 4: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'". Henry V. 5: "Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands". Ariel. Round 3. Category: Pulitzer Prize Categories 1: Bill Mauldin in 1945 and 1959. Cartooning. 2: Joe Rosenthal in 1945 for work done on Iwo Jima. Photography. 3: Robert Lowell in 1947 and 1974. Poetry. 4: Samuel Barber in 1958 and 1963. Music. 5: David McCullough, twice. Biography. Round 4. Category: Good Sportsmanship 1: J.P. Hayes cost himself a 2009 spot on this tour by confessing to using an unapproved ball. the PGA tour. 2: In 2008 Central Wash. players of this sport carried injured Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon around the bases. softball. 3: Mike Bossy and Alexander Mogilny have won the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct in this sport. hockey. 4: The chronicles of this hard-serving American include, in 2005, calling an opponent's shot in, costing himself the match. Andy Roddick. 5: This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the "bad boys" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award. Joe Dumars. Round 5. Category: LandS Of The World. With Land in quotes 1: This 840,000-square mile area belonging to Denmark lies within 15 miles of Canada. Greenland. 2: The crusade of Father Theobald Mathew reduced this island's whiskey intake by half in the early 1840s. Ireland. 3: From 1900 to 1982 Sobhuza II was king of this country surrounded on 3 sides by South Africa. Swaziland. 4: It's the only U.S. state that fits the category. Maryland (or Rhode Island). 5: Poet John Donne compared his mistress' body to this Canadian province. Newfoundland. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Octavian, ready for prime time!  Marc Antony disparaged him, the Senate disregarded him, and the Conspirators ignored him, all at their peril!  Join us as the 19 year old Octavian arrives in Rome with his BFF Agrippa and in 24 short months completes his meteoric ascent.

"The addition of our episode with Marc Antony Mendez makes him the third guest we have had who identifies as autistic, alongside Stephanie Persephone and Eddie Abreu. Marc is a young enthusiast of menswear, a budding writer and much more, and he spoke at length on this his and mine shared interest. One of the unique features of his episode is that he prepared answers to specific questions beforehand and, given the depth and beauty of his responses, I feel that his decision might have been the ideal one for this episode. I certainly hope you feel the same watching our episode." Marc's Bio ( Visit our show Facebook page for full bio.) Marc Anthony Mendez recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an Associates degree in Human Services Mental Health. The reason why he majored in this field was because he was diagnosed at the age of 18 months with Autism. Marc was bullied for many years, but decided he would use that experience to help other people on the spectrum. Being on the Autism Spectrum has allowed Marc Anthony the ability to do public speaking, work as an advocate, and share his journey with Autism, while helping clinicians, parents. He spoke at the United Nations with delegates from Japan about an educational program named, “The District 75 Inclusion Program.”  Marc is a public speaker, has spoken about the negative treatment some children with Autism face on an everyday basis. Marc was a keynote speaker at Scholastic Bookstore, the Hilton Hotel, Parents for Inclusive Education, Young Adults Institute for people with disabilities, the Arise Coalition, and local public schools in New York City. He enjoys acting and had the opportunity to work for Tony Danza (the actor and sitcom star). Marc is currently writing an autobiographical novel, to guide other members of the Autism Spectrum on how to adapt with Autism and to gain their own sense of empowerment. January of 2020, Marc earned a job with YAI, and was a co- facilitator helping individuals on the spectrum to live independently. He recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an associate's degree in Human Services: Mental Health. "Despite it all, I was the most improved student and received many awards due to my progress. My mother had to fight the department of education to open a classroom thanks to the Law of “FAPE” which is, Free And Appropriate public Education. By opening those classes I was able to attend Russell Sage Jr. High School. I enjoy the self investment that I do, whether it be cooking, reading, writing, clothing combinating, discovering new neighborhoods, editing my first novel, “Autisymbiosis”.  There have been many teachers in my life that influence me to be who I am, what I am. There is more than one influential person that empowered me, and those people are my God, my visions, both good dream and bad dream, my Mother, my Father, my Sister, my older cousin, my sister's boyfriend, my high school paras, my high school drama teacher, my acting mentor, my college statistic's tutor, every friend that I have ever had, my school crushes, every bully I have ever had, every rival I have ever had, and my Jr High School Inclusion teacher. I wish to personally thank you all and thank you to all advocates, special education teachers, guidance counselors, psychotherapists, and even all members of the disability and/ or learning difference community for your devotion to the better tomorrow.I want to continue to deliver hope, peace, and love.  You! Yes, you are my humanity and the sole reason why I fight for justice and fairness for all! Therefore, It does not matter what deck of cards you have been dealt, there is always a way to win ♠.” Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ eccentric.mendez3696 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majestic_mendez/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ecentric_Mendez --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mitch-hampton/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mitch-hampton/support

"The addition of our episode with Marc Antony Mendez makes him the third guest we have had who identifies as autistic, alongside Stephanie Persephone and Eddie Abreu. Marc is a young enthusiast of menswear, a budding writer and much more, and he spoke at length on this his and mine shared interest. One of the unique features of his episode is that he prepared answers to specific questions beforehand and, given the depth and beauty of his responses, I feel that his decision might have been the ideal one for this episode. I certainly hope you feel the same watching our episode." Marc's Bio ( Visit our show Facebook page for full bio.) Marc Anthony Mendez recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an Associates degree in Human Services Mental Health. The reason why he majored in this field was because he was diagnosed at the age of 18 months with Autism. Marc was bullied for many years, but decided he would use that experience to help other people on the spectrum. Being on the Autism Spectrum has allowed Marc Anthony the ability to do public speaking, work as an advocate, and share his journey with Autism, while helping clinicians, parents. He spoke at the United Nations with delegates from Japan about an educational program named, “The District 75 Inclusion Program.”  Marc is a public speaker, has spoken about the negative treatment some children with Autism face on an everyday basis. Marc was a keynote speaker at Scholastic Bookstore, the Hilton Hotel, Parents for Inclusive Education, Young Adults Institute for people with disabilities, the Arise Coalition, and local public schools in New York City. He enjoys acting and had the opportunity to work for Tony Danza (the actor and sitcom star). Marc is currently writing an autobiographical novel, to guide other members of the Autism Spectrum on how to adapt with Autism and to gain their own sense of empowerment. January of 2020, Marc earned a job with YAI, and was a co- facilitator helping individuals on the spectrum to live independently. He recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an associate's degree in Human Services: Mental Health. "Despite it all, I was the most improved student and received many awards due to my progress. My mother had to fight the department of education to open a classroom thanks to the Law of “FAPE” which is, Free And Appropriate public Education. By opening those classes I was able to attend Russell Sage Jr. High School. I enjoy the self investment that I do, whether it be cooking, reading, writing, clothing combinating, discovering new neighborhoods, editing my first novel, “Autisymbiosis”.  There have been many teachers in my life that influence me to be who I am, what I am. There is more than one influential person that empowered me, and those people are my God, my visions, both good dream and bad dream, my Mother, my Father, my Sister, my older cousin, my sister's boyfriend, my high school paras, my high school drama teacher, my acting mentor, my college statistic's tutor, every friend that I have ever had, my school crushes, every bully I have ever had, every rival I have ever had, and my Jr High School Inclusion teacher. I wish to personally thank you all and thank you to all advocates, special education teachers, guidance counselors, psychotherapists, and even all members of the disability and/ or learning difference community for your devotion to the better tomorrow.I want to continue to deliver hope, peace, and love.  You! Yes, you are my humanity and the sole reason why I fight for justice and fairness for all! Therefore, It does not matter what deck of cards you have been dealt, there is always a way to win ♠.” Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ eccentric.mendez3696 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majestic_mendez/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ecentric_Mendez --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mitch-hampton/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mitch-hampton/support

One of the central figures in the drama of the collapse of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire was Marc Antony. He was a rather odd figure in Roman History. He came from an upper-class, but not necessarily elite, family.  Neither was he wasn't a great general. Yet he was at the right place at the right time, and his actions played a huge part in the republic's collapse.  Learn more about Marcus Antonius, aka Marc Antony, and how he found himself at the center of Roman history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp Visit BetterHelp.com/everywhere today to get 10% off your first month ButcherBox Sign up today at butcherbox.com/daily and use code daily to choose your free steak for a year and get $20 off."  Subscribe to the podcast!  https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Cameron Kieffer   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    “Friends, Romans, Countrywomen, lend me your ears, I come to bury Valentine's Day, not to praise it." My apologies to Shakespeare for twisting Marc Antony's eulogy for Julius Caesar a bit as I open the Valentine Season with Februa Seasons Beatings with a little Valentine's Day Foreplay to relax your defenses & wake up your senses, including your sense of history, specifically the history of Valentine's Day which begins with Lupercalia and evolves into World Bonobo Day, both blessed by Pan, Lord of the WiLD.  Warning: Explicit Conversations About Politics, Culture, & Sexuality!  Because... If love is going to hurt (as it often does), better to have your buns beaten (consensually) on Lupercalia than your heart broken (badly) on Valentine's Day! Or share the Bonobo Love in The Bonobo Way on World Bonobo Day!  Learn about the ins & outs of the High Holidays of Love as I tell the story of how Lupercalian communal ecstasy, hearts & floggers turned into Saint Valentine commercialism, chastity & candy flowers & is now a celebration of the Make Love Not War Bonobos, as I explore on this FDR podcast with Capt'n Max (my Valentine). Make Kink Not War! Ceasefire Now! And check out more of my prose & amazing Lupercalian Bacchanalian shows: https://drsusanblock.com/fdr-valentine-2024     Need to talk privately? Call Our Therapists Without Borders anytime: 213.291.9497. We're here for YOU.

The younger son of a no-name family from a no-name provincial town, this young man would do more than anyone else (even more than Julius Caesar himself) to establish Octavian at the pinnacle of the Roman power structure, doing everything that needed to be done with supreme competency, and humility.   He vanquished Marc Antony, singlehandedly rebuilt Roman infrastructure, left buildings of indelible beauty, and always had Octavian/Augustus' back, from the day they met in school as teenagers to the day he died. 

When the apostle Paul first came to town, the city of Philippi was famous for its connections to two of the greatest emperors of the ancient world: Alexander the Great and Caesar Augustus.Paul came to Philippi in the winter 49/50 AD, to a population of about ten thousand (sizable but smaller than Thessalonica and Corinth), and when he wrote this letter ten years later, I don't think it was lost on Paul how significant it was to be writing to “saints in Philippi.” That is, to Christians alive and well in no obscure city. The planting and growth and endurance of the church in the city of Philippi represented gospel advance deep into the Roman empire.The city, founded about 350 years before Christ, was about 8 miles northwest of port city Neapolis, in the region called Macedonia. The city was named for Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. Alexander conquered Greece in 338 BC and spread its language around the known world. So, when this city, named after Alexander's father received a letter from Paul, almost four centuries later, in the Greek language, it was, in part, because of Alexander.But long past were the days of Alexander. The Romans took Philippi in 168 BC, and the city's real claim to fame came in 42 BC, at the Battle of Philippi, when armies of Brutus and Cassius, who had assassinated Julius Caesar, were defeated by the coalition of Marc Antony and Octavian (who would become Augustus). After that, Philippi became a Roman colony, and located along the queen of long roads in the Roman empire, the city became the gateway between Asia and Europe. Far more important than history, it was a strategic city in terms of travel. Then enter Christianity in the first century.Today the reason the world knows and remembers Philippi is not because of Alexander the Great, and not because of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony and Augustus. The world remembers Philippi because of Jesus. His apostle Paul showed up there and planted his first church in Europe, and then years later wrote them this letter which we have in the New Testament.Let me just say, I love Philippians. I have a history with this book, and that in my most formative season of life. And I know I'm not alone. Many of us love this book, for a handful of reasons, and what I'd like to do in this sermon is celebrate several of those reasons why so many of us love Philippians — and why the pastors think this book in particular meets us in our life as a church here in the first half of 2024.So let's take this twofold approach this morning, to introduce this Philippians series, which will take us up to Memorial Day, God willing. First, I'd like to answer three questions from verses 1 and 2, and then finish with four reasons why so many of us love Philippians.So, here's three questions from verses 1–2: (1) What do we know about the recipients of this letter? (2) Why is this letter from Paul “and Timothy,” and not just Paul? (3) What do they hope this letter will accomplish?1) Saints in Philippi?First, what do we know about the recipients of this letter?Verse 1 says the letter is “to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons.”As for Philippi, Acts 16 tells the story of Paul first coming to the city, and the unusual circumstances of his coming there, and the conversion of Lydia and a jailer. But that was ten years before this letter, and I don't think that amazing story actually plays much into this letter a decade later.But it is significant that Paul writes “to all the saints,” that is, to the whole church. He could have written only or mainly to the leaders, but he writes to the whole church, “to all the saints,” as he usually does in his letters. So, we might say this letter is congregational, not presbyterian.Yet, even though the whole letter is to the whole church, Paul does hat-tip the leaders, and mentions two offices, and note both terms are in the plural: “with the overseers and the deacons.”These two offices are the same two specified in 1 Timothy 3, where we find qualifications for both, with “able to teach” being the main difference in the requirements. Overseers = pastors = elders comprise the lead or teaching office in the church, while the deacons are the assisting office.2) And Timothy?Question #2: Why is this letter from Paul “and Timothy,” and not just Paul?The first part of verse 1 says the letter is from “Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus . . .”Paul is the apostle. He met the risen Jesus on the Damascus Road. Timothy is a younger associate that Paul picked up in Derbe not long before he first showed up in Philippi. So, why would Paul, the apostle, the one who really matters, it seems, have the letter come from both him and Timothy, his junior partner?First, consider Paul's magnanimous spirit. Rather than highlight his special authority, and exclude his collaborator, Paul is secure enough, and generous enough, to include Timothy with him. Now, Timothy (along with Silas and Luke) had been with him at that first trip to Philippi. So the Philippians knew Timothy. And as we'll see in chapter 2, Paul hopes to send Timothy back to Philippi soon to check in on them (2:19). Timothy also likely served as Paul's assistant in composing this letter. He may have been the secretary as Paul dictated the letter. Ancient letter writing was not anything like writing emails, where you dash something off in a few minutes. Writing an epistle in the ancient world was like publishing a book — it was a long, involved, expensive process. Paul, together with Timothy, would have drafted the letter; then re-read and edited; then re-read again; then carefully written out a final copy. So, Timothy likely was involved significantly in producing the letter, like an editor and publisher would be for an author of a book.But again, Paul is the apostle. And generous as he is to include Timothy in the process, and name him, at the end of the day the letter comes under Paul's apostolic authority. He signs off on everything in it. It represents him, and the risen Christ, from beginning to end. He speaks in the first person in verse 3, and speaks of Timothy in the third person in chapter 2.So, with Timothy listed here with Paul, “apostles” doesn't fit them together. But together they are “servants of Christ Jesus.” Servants here is the same word for slaves (douloi), which pairs with Lord or Master (kurios). For Paul and Timothy to call themselves slaves is to say something about their Lord. Jesus is Lord, he is kurios; therefore they are douloi, slaves.Jesus is said to be Lord at the end of verse 2 — grace and peace come from “God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” The one who was so clearly fully human, just two decades before walking the roads of Galilee and the streets of Jerusalem, teaching with wisdom and authority, performing signs and wonders, suffering and dying, and purportedly rising again — this man is exalted alongside “God the Father” as the divine source of the grace and peace Paul extends to the saints in Philippi. Which leads to our third and final question.Grace and Peace?Third: What do Paul and Timothy want this letter to accomplish?Verse 2: “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”As we'll see in the coming months, Paul has some specific manifestations of Christ's grace and peace in mind when he thinks of the present needs in Philippi. We might summarize it as fresh joy in Christ, leading to humility and unity (following internal conflicts), leading to joyful, effective witness in this Roman colony.This “grace and peace” Paul means to come to them through words, through this letter. So, the letter doesn't just begin with a prayer for grace and peace; the letter itself is designed by Paul to be grace and peace to them. Epaphroditus will carry this letter back to his home church (2:25–30). He had brought a gift to Paul from the Philippians (4:10, 14, 18), which was not their first gift to Paul. From the very beginning, the saints in Philippi had supported Paul (1:5; 4:15–16). These are clearly some of his best partners, which explains why this letter gushes with affection and joy. Paul deeply loves this church, and they make him happy. They are his “joy and crown” (4:1). If only all the churches could be like Philippi's!This most recent gift (of perhaps food and supplies) they sent with Epaphroditus while Paul's in prison in Rome, and apparently somewhere along the way Epaphroditus got sick, and almost died. Now, he's recovered, and can go back, so this becomes an opportunity to write to the Philippians, and extend grace and peace to them in several ways: Paul thanks them for their gift, he updates them on his status in Rome, he commends Epaphroditus for his service, he prepares the way for Timothy to come soon, and he addresses the internal tension that has emerged in the church.From the beginning there had been external opposition to the gospel in Philippi. Paul and Silas were beaten and imprisoned at the get-go. Now, the church in Philippi is about ten years old (about the age of Cities Church!), and conflict is threatening from within. As we'll see in chapter 4, two prominent women in the church are at odds, and likely others as well.So, Paul hopes that this letter, with its exhortations to pursue humility and seek unity will be a means God uses to bring about fresh and greater peace in Philippi, and that Paul's words, his teaching, his letter, will be a means of God's grace to this church, a church with so much to appreciate, and a few things to grow in.So, Paul loved the Philippians. And it's a contagious love. I think that's part of why so many of us love Philippians — how can you not when the apostle Paul loves this church so much and has so much grace to celebrate?Why We Love ItSo, let's close, then, with four brief reasons why we love Philippians, which relates to what we need as a church right now, and why the pastors are so excited for this focus in the weeks ahead.1. Joy!First, this is an epistle of joy. As we will see, this letter overflows with joy, with brightness, with warmth (in contrast with, say, Galatians!). In Philippians we have more explicit mentions of joy, gladness, and rejoicing in such short space than anywhere else in the Bible. From the beginning, the whole epistle is warm and bright. Even with the trouble that comes to the surface in chapters 1, 3, and 4.And yet, in all this brightness and warmth and joy, this letter is written from prison in Rome. What an amazing person Jesus has made the apostle Paul. Singing at midnight in prison, after being beaten by rods. And now, ten years later, singing, in the form of this letter, while sitting in prison in Rome. So, don't mistake the joy of Philippians for the thin pleasures of a carefree life. Rather, the joy of Philippians, Christian joy, the joy of the gospel, is joy deep enough to survive, and thrive, in prison, in conflict, in struggle, in pain, in sickness, in death.Which really should put our lives, and our little problems and big ones, and our complaints and pains into perspective. The pastors' prayer for us as we steep our souls in Philippians in these next five months is that Jesus would make us more like Paul. Beaten with rods, he sings. Imprisoned, he overflows with joy. Why? Not just because he had a buoyant personality, but because Jesus is Lord. The gospel is true. The Spirit is alive and poured out generously on those who love Jesus. God is sovereign. Christ is on the throne. He gives grace and peace, even in the worst of earthly circumstances.And I know it's January, the coldest month. Winter is here, and we're now entering into the thick of seasonal affective time, which is real, and especially in Minnesota. And one of the reasons the pastors chose Philippians, bright, warm, deeply joyful, for such a time as this is to help us through Winter 2024. So, we love Philippians because it's an epistle of such deep joy.2. BriefSecond, we love Philippians because it's relatively brief (in contrast to, say, Hebrews!). Philippians is brief enough for a short, focused but still deep study. Philippians is just 104 verses, which, I promise you, is brief enough for anyone in this room to memorize, if you put the work in over time. In fact, Pastor Jonathan and I plan to memorize Philippians in 2024. Want to join us? Get this, 104 verses. There are 52 weeks in a year. That's just two verses a week. You can do this. What better way to take on the sheer madness of a presidential election year than to memorize this brief epistle of deep, enduring joy? 3. AccessibleThird, we love Philippians because it's so accessible. It's relatively easy to understand (in contrast to, say, Galatians, or Leviticus, or Hebrews — our last three!).Here's our hope as pastors in this season in the life of our church. We've been through a lot. God's grace has sustained us, in finishing the Rooted campaign in 2023, and building out the education space, and losing three pastors last summer. The reason we chose Philippians for the first half of 2024 is that we hope this might be a time to refresh our souls. Listen, y'all have been amazing. The last three books of the Bible have not been easy ones! Galatians, then Leviticus, then Hebrews! Cities Church, you have done well, and it's time for something more accessible. It's time for Philippians, and to take it slow.4. MemorableFinally, we love Philippians because of the memorable passages. From 1:6 to 2:12–13 to 3:12–14 to 4:19, how many remarkable verses and passage there are in Philippians. So I made a list of my top-10 favorite verses in Philippians. It includes the four I just mentioned. It also includes 3:20–21 (on our citizenship being in heaven) and 4:4–8 (on not being anxious and setting our minds on the true, honorable, and just) and 4:11–13 (on all things through Christ who strengthens me), but let me end on my top three.The first two reveal the heart of Paul for Jesus. As Christians, in our best moments, we want to be like this:1:21, To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 3:7–8, Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. In our best moments, when we are thinking our clearest, and our hearts are their purest, this too is what we want: for Christ to be our life, and to see death as gain because to depart and be with Christ is far better than being distant from him. And, with Paul, to count as loss anything else of gain we have in view of the surpassing value of knowing Jesus.And how do we know him? The last memorable passage reveals the heart of Jesus, and leads us to the Table. Chapter 2, verses 6–11. This is our salvation. Hear this for you, for your sin: [being] in the form of God, [Jesus] did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. The death he died was not for his sin; he had none. The death he died was for ours. And he went to the cross, as we saw in Hebrews, for the joy set before him. He humbled himself, knowing his Father would exalt him. He was obedient to death, knowing his Father would raise him, and reward him, and honor him, and honor himself in and through him, and that he would win for himself a people who trust in him.

Julius Caesar's legate in Gaul, Titus Labienus was the original Marc Antony, a friend to Caesar in his early days and a critical piece to Caesar's victories in Gaul.  But when Caesar crossed the Rubicon, Labienus sided with the Republic, fighting under Pompey to preserve the government, until one day at Munda he found himself face to face with his old friend Caesar in a fight for his life.  

 Luigi y Santiago Castillo, integrantes del grupo San Luis, conversaron sobre su gira junto a Voz Veis, asegurando que desde que comenzaron sospechaban que venían cosas muy lindas, pero no tan grandes, e insistiendo en que ha sido un viaje maravilloso. Luigi destacó que volver a Maracaibo es volver a su verdadera casa, donde se siente algo maternal «El barbero, el mercado, son las gaitas que cantábamos desde pequeño» añadió. Resaltó que su disco de Navidad, que es de los más vendidos, empezó como un catálogo y donde esperaban demasiado. También recordó que todo el disco se hizo en una cabaña en Boconó, incluso las canciones inéditas. «No imaginábamos todas las cosas maravillosas que vinieron después de ese álbum» acotó. Por su parte, Santiago indicó que crecieron en un ambiente muy musical y artístico donde fueron estimulados. «La experiencia que hemos tenido como compositores en el álbum de Marc Antony, nacieron como una balada muy San Luis, pero al ser arregladas para salsa, vemos la música de otra manera. San Luis es una expresión más íntima» dijo.

All for Love; or, The World Well Lost by John Dryden audiobook. All for Love is widely considered to be John Dryden's finest work, dramatic or otherwise. A tragedy written in blank verse, it retells the story of Roman general Marc Antony's love affair with the alluring Egyptian queen Cleopatra and their eventual double-suicide. Compared to the more famous rendition of the tale by William Shakespeare, however, which is grand and hectic in terms of setting, Dryden chooses instead to focus in on the lovers' last days in Alexandria as the threat of their defeat looms and their legacies are contested. The result is a swelling, elegant, emotional drama that perceptively considers such themes as loyalty and love, fidelity in marriage, the lasting endurance of friendship, and even the tenuous construct of masculinity. In short, it's truly a gem of the Restoration repertoire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the next two segments: number 132 and 133 in the sequence, we repeat a subject that we took up in number 113 and 114; namely the buddha nature versus human nature; some of the sameness and differences between what we refer to as “human nature” and what we refer to in Zen as our “original nature,” or “buddha-nature,” “buddha” meaning “awakened one.” Please bear with the repetition; there is new material here as well. And much of what is to be said about the place of Zen in America bears repetition. As promised in the last segment of UnMind, we will continue examining the social, or “corporate” expressions of human nature — versus what we call “buddha nature” — with an eye to those corporate entities growing out of Zen practice, such as the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and the Silent Thunder Order, as examples. Master Dogen mentions the constructions of humankind, indicating that they, too, are part and parcel of the nature and manifestation of buddha-dharma: Grass, trees, and lands which are embraced by this Teachingtogether radiate a great light and endlessly expoundthe inconceivable profound dharmaGrass, trees, and walls bring forth this Teaching for all beingscommon people as well as sagesand they in accord extend this dharmafor the sake of grass, trees, and walls In India the original Order of monks and nuns apparently camped out in the woods, and when the monsoons came, retired to caves in the mountains. Eventually, patrons built dwellings for them, the first “walls” to house the followers of Buddha's teachings. Somewhere I came across a saying, something to the effect that, when a precious jewel appears in the world, not to worry, a container will appear to protect it. The “precious jewel” is the buddha-dharma, and the container consists of the various temples, practice centers, and monasteries that have been established to protect and preserve it. The Dharma opening verse that we typically chant at the beginning of a discourse says: The unsurpassed, profound and wondrous Dharma is rarely met withEven in a hundred, thousand, million kalpasNow we can see and hear it, accept and maintain itMay we unfold the meaning of the Tathagata's truth Assuming we can “see and hear” the Dharma, it becomes our charge to “accept and maintain” it. In the context of modern society, this means not only providing the physical plant, the “walls” within which followers are invited to practice, but also providing the corporate structure that will enable others to maintain the program of promulgating Dharma teachings and propagating the direct practice of meditation, through their financial and in-kind donations. For this reason, and other related incentives, it becomes necessary to establish a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation in order to maintain Zen practice interfacing with other, governmental corporate entities. But some caveats are in order when doing so in the furtherance of Zen, in light of its skepticism regarding the constructed self. Where Zen calls into question the reification of even the human entity, or being, and its extension to the concept of a self, the soul of theism, or atman of Hinduism; the reification of a corporate entity is seen as equally, or even more, suspect. ASZC was incorporated in 1977 to facilitate the mission of meeting the public demand for what we refer to as genuine Zen practice, in particular its uniquely simple and direct meditation. What we refer to as “Soto Zen” or “Dogen Zen” is different from all the other alternatives on offer. Just as what Buddhism teaches as its worldview is starkly different from the various religions and ideologies dominant in our culture. STO was incorporated in 2011 because the stress and strain on the board of directors and committees of the ASZC had become too much to handle, with the growth of our network of affiliates, which were meeting the increasing demand for Zen practice; and the growing awareness of ASZC and STO as meeting that demand in a uniquely user-friendly manner, stressing the practicality and best practices of householder Zen. BUT We should not be confused as to the reality or unreality of the corporate entities we have “established.” They are no more real than any other corporate entity, though we may feel that their existence as such is much more necessary and based on real human need. The human beings, or sangha, populating the corporate shell are real and existent dharmas, in its connotation of “dharma-beings.” The corporation is real enough, in that it can interact with other corporate entities, but is essentially a real but non-existent dharma being, a construct. In spite of the “Citizens United” ruling of the Supreme Court, corporations are demonstrably not persons and should not have the “rights” accorded to human beings, in my humble opinion. All beings are capable of doing harm; corporate entities may survive their human components and thus become capable of extending the harm, or good, they do to future generations. Real persons, fortunately or unfortunately — your call — pass away eventually, but the harm they do often lives after them; thank you, Marc Antony. Sometimes through the corporations they formed during their lifetime. There is a rather useful trope to apply to your personal relationship to the corporate entity that represents the community of fellow practitioners of Zen. These are some issues that have come up from time to time, phrased in the format of “IF-THEN”: IF you find yourself obsessing over the wellbeing of the ASZC or STO, or your local affiliate center, including the management and succession of their leadership, THEN you may be getting distracted from your own, personal practice, which may be much more difficult to deal with, and less gratifying than engaging the social fray. IF you feel under-appreciated for your efforts on behalf of the organization, THEN a couple of reminders: One — welcome to the club. Two — remember that we support the organizations because they support the practice of Zen. And in Zen there is “no self, and no other-than-self.” Our actions are neither entirely selfish, nor entirely unselfish, when it comes to Zen. Or you could argue that they are both selfish and unselfish. IF you are engaging in certain activities, and feel that you are making sacrifices, for the sake of someone else in the sangha, including myself, THEN, please stop. A sense of emotional indebtedness will only grow, and can never be recompensed adequately. As Master Dogen reminds us, we should not imagine that we are practicing Zen solely for our own sake, let alone for the sake of others. We should practice Zen for the sake of Buddhism itself. The 13th Century Master cautioned his followers not to call it “Zen,” that Zen is a made-up term. It is only Buddhism, he said. But even his nomenclature reifies “Buddhism,” as if there actually is such a thing that needs our protection. Buddhism, like Zen, is also a made-up term. Shakyamuni was not a Buddhist, any more than Jesus Christ was a Christian. Buddha comes from a root word that means “awake.” Buddha means the “fully awakened one.” What he taught, and what his followers practiced — in a culture replete with Hinduism, where one imagines they encountered considerable resistance — came to be called Buddhism. As such, it is also subject to its own teachings of “impermanence, insubstantiality, and imperfection.” IF you find yourself sharing your personal doubts and frustrations with your fellow travelers as to how the sangha is functioning, including its leadership, THEN you may be fomenting confusion, and resultant disharmony, in the sangha, a big “no-no” in Zen. As the story goes, one of Siddhartha Gautama's cohort of cousins, named Devadatta, was jealous of Shakyamuni's revered status, including the lavish support he received from patrons, and repeatedly attempted to have Buddha assassinated. Yet Buddha predicted that Devadatta would eventually realize buddha-hood. If such transgressions against the cohesion of the corporate Order of monks and nuns in those times could be regarded by Buddha as a kind of trial-and-error, coming of age saga, if over several lifetimes — we may be forgiven for the more minor errors in judgment that we may reasonably be expected to make in our efforts at community practice, and any resultant behaviors that may have unintended consequences. In any case, it does not pay to overthink these considerations, certainly not to make them the focus of our personal practice. A monk complained that when sitting in zazen, the rain was dripping on him from leaks in the roof. The Master told him to “move down.” Why spend a lot of time patching and repairing an old temple building, when you should be about the business of your own awakening to Buddha's insight? It is even more likely today that we will become enamored of the corporate entity and all its trappings, and lose sight of what brought us to Zen in the first place. The only thing that will accompany us when we go to our grave is our deeds. We have to leave the chimera of the corporation, along with the walls of the building, no matter how grandiose, behind — as well as the paperwork, thankfully. This realization should be accompanied by an immense sense of relief. * * * Elliston Roshi is guiding teacher of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and abbot of the Silent Thunder Order. He is also a gallery-represented fine artist expressing his Zen through visual poetry, or “music to the eyes.”UnMind is a production of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center in Atlanta, Georgia and the Silent Thunder Order. You can support these teachings by PayPal to donate@STorder.org. Gassho.Producer: Shinjin Larry Little

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Patrick Page has earned a reputation as one of the top classical actors in America today and one of the best at playing villains. He's played Iago in Othello, the Grinch, Marc Antony and Brutus in Julius Caesar, Scar in The Lion King, King Lear, and Hades in Hadestown to name very few of his roles in a decades long career. But Patrick has faced off against a classical villain off stage as well, having battled a depressive disorder ever since he was five years old. He talks about his experiences with bipolar depression and substance use disorder and his own efforts to get and remain healthy. He also discusses the emotional toll of taking on very heavy roles and playing them on stage while dealing with his mental health. It's a revealing conversation about mental health and about art.Learn more about Patrick by visiting his website, www.PatrickPageOnline.com. Get tickets to Patrick's newest play, All the Devils Are Here, previews beginning September 29th at the DR2 Theater, by going to www.AllTheDevilsPlay.com.Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of Maximum Fun.Check out our I'm Glad You're Here and Depresh Mode merchandise at the brand new merch website MaxFunStore.com!Hey, remember, you're part of Depresh Mode and we want to hear what you want to hear about. What guests and issues would you like to have covered in a future episode? Write us at depreshmode@maximumfun.org.Help is available right away.The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988 or 1-800-273-8255, 1-800-273-TALKCrisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741.International suicide hotline numbers available here: https://www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlinesThe Depresh Mode newsletter is available twice a week. Subscribe for free and stay up to date on the show and mental health issues. https://johnmoe.substack.com/John's acclaimed memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250209566/thehilariousworldofdepressionFind the show on Twitter @depreshpod and Instagram @depreshpod.John is on Twitter @johnmoe.

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In this episode, we return to the beach at Actium with author, historian, and academic Barry Strauss as our tour guide. His new book, The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium, discusses the infamous sea battle Marc Antony and Cleopatra fought against Octavian and Agrippa for love, for supremacy, for their very survival. Join us as we deconstruct this battle, paint a vivid picture of ancient war at sea, and tackle the one question everyone's asking: why did Cleopatra flee the battlefield? Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Thanks Athletic Greens. Go to athleticgreens.com/fangirl to get a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode originally appeared as a Patreon Exclusive episode. Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our episode Cleopatra x Marc Antony: Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Part 3), we alluded to a story about King Herod (yes, that King Herod) and Cleopatra—and an epic feud between them. We didn't have time to go into that story in the bigger arc on Cleopatra and Marc Antony, but we thought it was a perfect topic for a minisode.  Unlike Cleopatra and Marc Antony, Cleopatra and Herod hated each other. And not in a sexy-belligerent-sexual-tension way. They were intractable enemies—and it ultimately led to Cleopatra's downfall.  This is the first Ancient History Fangirl mini-arc--a two-episode series about two colossal personalities from the ancient world--and what happened when their interests collided. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/fangirl16 and use code fangirl16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! After the disaster at Actium, Marc Antony's entire army--100,000 strong--surrendered to Octavian. Marc Antony and Cleopatra fled to Alexandria to negotiate the terms of their defeat. Those were dark, foreboding days. Friends and allies fled the palace. Marc Antony fell into a deep depression, while Cleopatra searched desperately for a way out--one that would keep her kingdom intact and her children alive. But the reckoning was coming. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/fangirl16 and use code fangirl16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping! Thanks Athletic Greens. Go to athleticgreens.com/fangirl to get a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! As Marc Antony and Cleopatra lived and loved in Alexandria, Octavian whipped up a toxic garbage fire of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia in Rome--and then declared war. Not against Marc Antony, but against Cleopatra. Soon, the lovers would be forced to defend their home, their family, and their life together on the shores of the Ambracian Gulf. Find out how it all went down--at a town called Actium. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/fangirl16 and use code fangirl16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping! Thanks Athletic Greens. Go to athleticgreens.com/fangirl to get a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! After four years of marriage with Octavia, Marc Antony followed Cleopatra to Alexandria—and settled into life there. He oversaw festivals and athletic contests, cheered Cleopatra on as she ruled Egypt, and showered her and their children with honors and territories. For all intents and purposes, he was the consort of Egypt's beloved Pharaoh, the father of her children—and he was home. But the propaganda war between Antony and Octavian was building to a fever pitch in Rome, even as the Parthians loomed threateningly in the distance. Soon Antony would be called to war—and face the biggest battlefield test of his career. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/fangirl16 and use code fangirl16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping! Thanks Athletic Greens. Go to athleticgreens.com/fangirl to get a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! When Cleopatra and Marc Antony met by the River Tarsus, Antony was smitten. And when Cleopatra went back to Alexandria, he forgot about invading Parthia and followed her home. The two then spent a magical few months in Alexandria, where they threw each other lavish banquets, made bets and compacts, played ridiculous practical jokes on each other and the public--and fell in love. But nothing good can ever stay. The real world came knocking, and soon Marc Antony was forced to choose between his heart in Alexandria and his future in Rome. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/fangirl16 and use code fangirl16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping! Thanks Athletic Greens. Go to athleticgreens.com/fangirl to get a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello Great Minds! It's "Da Nile" v. "Daaa Medici" on the latest round of Shots - Cleopatra v. Catherine de Medici!!!Both were Queens, both were Mothers, both were truly Gaslit Titans of History, listen to find out who will win the second Crown of Greatness of Season 4!Key Topics: Cleopatra, Caesar, Marc Antony, Catherine de Medici, Valois France, Wars of ReligionFor more DGMH just head on over to Patreon Land to get access to soooooooo much more Great content here: patreon.com/dgmhhistoryBe sure to follow me on Facebook at "Drinks with Great Minds in History" & Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter @dgmhhistoryCheers!Music:Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3845-hall-of-the-mountain-kingLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Artwork by @Tali Rose... Check it out!Support the show

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Shakespeare wrote about them. Hollywood glamorized them. For thousands of years, they've come down to us as the ultimate star-crossed lovers: the Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra, and the Roman commander Marc Antony. In the wake of Caesar's death, Cleopatra fled to Egypt--and began picking up the pieces. Meanwhile, Marc Antony defeated Caesar's assassins in battle, and then set his sights on invading Parthia. But to invade Parthia, he needed the money and support of Rome's richest client ruler: Cleopatra. And Cleopatra had an agenda, too: she needed another Roman protector to shore up her power in Egypt. Find out what happened when these two met on the banks of the River Tarsus. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/fangirl16 and use code fangirl16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping! Thanks Athletic Greens. Go to athleticgreens.com/fangirl to get a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello Great Minds!Today, we are finally covering Cleopatra VII Philopator, Queen of Egypt, someone that I have been trying to cover for three seasons!  So, how has the popular memory of Egypt's last queen, this Titan of the Hellenistic World,  impacted her legacy?  Were her rather actions justified, pragmatic, or ruthless?   Listen to find out all about the treacherous waters Cleopatra was forced to navigate in her magnificent reign! Key Topics: Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, Marc Antony, Ptolemaic Egypt, Roman Empire For more DGMH just head on over to Patreon Land to get access to soooooooo much more Great content here: patreon.com/dgmhhistoryBe sure to follow me on Facebook at "Drinks with Great Minds in History" & Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter @dgmhhistoryCheers!Music:Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3845-hall-of-the-mountain-kingLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Artwork by @Tali Rose... Check it out!Support the show

September 2, 31 BCE. Two camps prepare for battle off the coast of Greece. On one side is Octavian, Julius Caesar's heir apparent. On the other, Marc Antony and his lover, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. This battle won't just determine the leader of Rome, but the fate of global civilization. How did Cleopatra wind up in the middle of a Roman game of tug of war? And how did the Battle of Actium change our world forever?Special thanks to our guest, Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.