Episodes

  • Famous Greeks - Lycurgus - English
    May 7 2023
    One of the most instructive and intriguing ways to learn history is through biography. By pondering the lives of great individuals—people who leave deep marks on both their own times and distant posterity—you can chart broad currents of events while also studying virtue and vice, folly and wisdom, success and failure. Moreover, you can appreciate them in the real circumstances of their times.In a companion course to Famous Romans, classics scholar and master storyteller J. Rufus Fears examines a gallery of fascinating characters who shaped the story of Greece from the Trojan War through the rise of Rome.
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    30 mins
  • Famous Greeks - Odysseus - English
    May 7 2023

    One of the most instructive and intriguing ways to learn history is through biography. By pondering the lives of great individuals—people who leave deep marks on both their own times and distant posterity—you can chart broad currents of events while also studying virtue and vice, folly and wisdom, success and failure. Moreover, you can appreciate them in the real circumstances of their times.In a companion course to Famous Romans, classics scholar and master storyteller J. Rufus Fears examines a gallery of fascinating characters who shaped the story of Greece from the Trojan War through the rise of Rome.

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    31 mins
  • Famous Greeks - Hector - English
    May 6 2023

    One of the most instructive and intriguing ways to learn history is through biography. By pondering the lives of great individuals—people who leave deep marks on both their own times and distant posterity—you can chart broad currents of events while also studying virtue and vice, folly and wisdom, success and failure. Moreover, you can appreciate them in the real circumstances of their times.In a companion course to Famous Romans, classics scholar and master storyteller J. Rufus Fears examines a gallery of fascinating characters who shaped the story of Greece from the Trojan War through the rise of Rome.

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    31 mins
  • Famous Greeks - Achilles and Agamemnon - English
    May 6 2023

    One of the most instructive and intriguing ways to learn history is through biography. By pondering the lives of great individuals—people who leave deep marks on both their own times and distant posterity—you can chart broad currents of events while also studying virtue and vice, folly and wisdom, success and failure. Moreover, you can appreciate them in the real circumstances of their times.In a companion course to Famous Romans, classics scholar and master storyteller J. Rufus Fears examines a gallery of fascinating characters who shaped the story of Greece from the Trojan War through the rise of Rome.

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    31 mins
  • Famous Greeks - Theseus - English
    May 6 2023

    One of the most instructive and intriguing ways to learn history is through biography. By pondering the lives of great individuals—people who leave deep marks on both their own times and distant posterity—you can chart broad currents of events while also studying virtue and vice, folly and wisdom, success and failure. Moreover, you can appreciate them in the real circumstances of their times.In a companion course to Famous Romans, classics scholar and master storyteller J. Rufus Fears examines a gallery of fascinating characters who shaped the story of Greece from the Trojan War through the rise of Rome.

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    30 mins
  • Heroes, Gods and Monster of the Greek Myth - Part 9 - English
    May 6 2023

    Spoken Arts written by Bernard Evslin

    Read by Julie Harris and Richard Kiley

    chapter:

    23:PROMETHEUS

    24:DAEDALUS

    25;EROS AND PSYCHE

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    47 mins
  • Heroes, Gods and Monster of the Greek Myth - Part 8 - English
    May 6 2023

    Spoken Arts written by Bernard Evslin

    Read by Julie Harris and Richard Kiley

    chapter:

    22: ATALANTA

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    31 mins
  • Heroes, Gods and Monster of the Greek Myth - Part 7 - English
    May 6 2023

    Spoken Arts written by Bernard Evslin

    Read by Julie Harris and Richard Kiley

    chapter:

    19: PANDORA

    20: ARION

    21: ORPHEUS

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    35 mins