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Sept. 16, 2021
Episode 14 - First Mesopotamia
The first known civilization arises in Mesopotamia around the year 3,500 BC. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:
Feb. 3, 2024
Episode IX.02 - The Technological Singularity I
From the card catalog at the University of Arizona library to the apocalypse of the human race. The introduction to the Technological Singularity. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:v
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Oct. 16, 2025
Episode III.17 - The Second Punic War III: To the Defeat at Cannae
Rome commits to the war, raising more troops than ever before and pushing the limits of their constitution. Hannibal is victorious over Rome again and again. Fabius Maximus manages to slow the destruction, until Carthage's greatest general finally obliterates Rome's largest army at the battle of Cannae.
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Oct. 25, 2026
Episode III.30 - To the Death of Julius Caesar
As the last century before Christ winds down, the circle of power shrinks in Rome. By 59 BC, the triumvirate of Crassus, Pompey and Caesar are the only men who really matter in politics. Six years later, only Pompey and Caesar remain. In 49 BC, Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon and soon Pompey, Cato the Younger and many of the Roman optimates are either dead or exiled. Cicero accepts a pardon, and the inevitable. Shortly after he is named Perpetual Dictator in 44 BC, Roman patriots assassinate
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Sept. 3, 2026
Episode III.29 - The Culture of the Late Roman Republic
How philosophy, religion and other aspects of Roman culture began to change in the 1st century BC. Epicurus, Lucretius, Cato the Younger, Roman concrete, frescoes, mosaics, Cicero.
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Aug. 10, 2026
Episode IX.10 - On the Final Scene of Hamnet
The final scene of Hamnet is a dense, powerfully-acted demonstration of story-telling and character development. The episode relates how Jessie Buckley accomplishes a memorable feat of acting primarily through facial expression and gestures rather than with the spoken word, the traditional medium of acting. The scene also meditates on that black door, and the undiscovered country in each of us.