Episodes

Ray Kurzweil, immortality, resurrection and the technological singularity in the year 2045. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

The proud Athenians invade Sicily only to suffer inglorious defeat and annihilation. Nicias and Demosthenes executed. Alcibiades in exile. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

One quarter of our food keeps us alive. The rest keeps doctors alive. Medical science in Classical Era Greece. The works of Hippocrates. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

They say that every man thinks about the Roman Empire at least once a day. But does the Roman Empire still exist? Are there still Roman emperors? RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

The Spartans surrender at Pylos The rise and fall of Brasidas and Cleon. The Peace of Nicias. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

All is the one. All is a perfect sphere of being and we are all a part of this One, as is all matter and all time and thought and sensation. All is the One, whom forever exists, born from out of eternity, changeless and infin...

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

Everywhere treachery, bloodshed, fury and destruction. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

The playwrights Sophocles and Euripides. Focus of tragedy on the Trojan War and Heracles. The role of women in Greek tragedy. A review of Medea, a play by Euripides. The catharsis of Greek tragedy and its impact on Western Ci...

Greek drama. Aeschylus and some of his plays: Agamemnon, The Persians and Prometheus Bound. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

It begins at Epidamnus but only after conflicts at Potidaea and Plataea are all the cities of Greece brought into general warfare. The Plague of Athens. Pericles’ Funeral Oration. The death of Pericles. RECOMMENDED READS - Cl...

The meta-series of the western traditions podcast. Here we take a look at issues both from the past, and those that await us in the human future. Topics include things like: the technological singularity, gender issues, UFOs ...

The Greek counterattack begins. Athens and her allies form the Delian league. The power struggles of Xanthippus, Pausanias, Themistocles, Cimon, and Pericles. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

The final episode of the Persian War. The Athenians and the Spartans defeat the Persian invaders. Victory in Europe!

The Greek fleet makes a last stand at sea against the Persian armada. The rise of Themistocles and Aristides. Xerxes flees Greece and leaves a garrison under Mardonius in Europe. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

Xerxes comes to power in Persia. A huge army invades Greece. Themistocles rallies the Athenians. The Greek allies stand at Thermopylae. Leonidas and the 300 fall in battle. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

The Persian War begins. The Histories of Herodotus. The Battle of Marathon. Darius and Miltiades. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

The many lands of the ancient Greeks. Mystery religions, Greek sexuality and the hoplite warrior.

From Theseus to Solon and Pisistratus, the complex, chaotic history of Athens unfolds. Prelude to the Persian War. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

Plutarch’s essay on Lycurgus. Laconia and Lacedaemon. The Spartans, their government, their lives, their army. Leonidas, Gorgo and Thermopylae.

The Greek polis or city-state. The city of Thebes and the tragedy of Oedipus. The value of the state and the importance of politics in classical Greece.

Life in Greece after the Bronze Age Collapse. Homer and Hesiod. The mystery religions. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

Homer’s second great epic poem about the long-delayed return of Odysseus from the Trojan War. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link:

Homer’s great epic poem about the rage of Achilles outside the walls of Troy. RECOMMENDED READS - Click Image for Link: