Why Does Marcus Aurelius Still Speak To Us Today?
Why Is Marcus Aurelius Still So Powerful Today? | Aaron Poochigian on Stoicism & Meditations Nearly 2,000 years after his death, Marcus Aure...
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20 of 150 episodesSuccess & Stoicism: Practical Philosophy You Can Use - With Tom Morris
Can Ancient Philosophy Teach Us How to Succeed? | Tom Morris on Aristotle, Stoicism & Living Well What does it actually mean to succeed in l...
Spirituality in the Ancient World: What Have We Lost?
How Did Beliefs Really Work in the Ancient World?| Michael Satlow on Ancient Religion & Ritual For people in Late Antiquity, gods, spirits a...
What Can Roman Homes Tell Us About Life TODAY?
What Did Roman Houses Reveal About the People Who Lived Inside Them? | Ancient Architecture & Morality Roman houses were more than places to...
Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World | The Ancient Civilization That Still Shapes Your Life Mesopotamia changed the world. Many of...
Do We Really Have Free Will?
Do we truly have free will, or are our choices shaped by biology, habits, and unconscious forces? This fascinating panel explores one of hum...
Secrets of Forgotten Pharaohs
The Amarna Letters: Love, War & Diplomacy in the Bronze Age World | Eric Cline What can 3,400-year-old diplomatic letters teach us about int...
Life Lessons From the Odyssey: Strength, Resilience, and Purpose
What can Homer's Odyssey teach us about resilience, trauma, grief, purpose, and living a meaningful life in the modern world? Clinical psych...
The Secret Legacy of Rome's Scholar-Slaves
Intellectual Slaves in Ancient Rome: The Hidden Minds Behind Roman Literature & Power What is an intellectual slave, and why did some of the...
The Power of the Bull
Why Did Ancient Civilizations Worship Bulls? From the Minotaur to Taurus, explore how bull symbolism shaped mythology, religion, power, and...
Should We Teach Philosophy to Children?
Should philosophy start in childhood? Discover how philosophy for children can improve critical thinking, empathy, communication, and emotio...
Does Ancient History Have A Future?
What Is the Future of Ancient History? In this deep, thought-provoking discussion, leading historians and philosophers explore what “ancient...
The Ancients and the Afterlife: Mythology, Mourning, and Mummies
What Did Ancient People Believe About Death and the Afterlife? Robert Garland explores how Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, and other ancient cult...
The Man Who Tried to Save Athenian Democracy
This episode is for anyone interested in ancient Greece, democracy, political history, and rhetoric, especially if you want to understand ho...
The Misunderstood Myth: Persephone, Hades & Demeter
What does the story of Demeter really tell us about loss, power, and the human experience? In this episode, renowned translator and classici...
Mary Beard: Why You Should Argue With the Ancients
What is the point of studying Classics today? Mary Beard explains why the ancient world still shocks, challenges, and reshapes how we think....
Rebellions Against Rome: The Jewish Revolts
An age of apocalyptic thinking, a clash of empires, and a legacy that still shapes the world today... Today Anya is joined by Professor Barr...
Natalie Haynes on Medea: Greek Tragedy's Most Shocking Heroine
Barbarian, witch, murderer… and mother. Today Anya is joined by author and broadcaster Natalie Haynes to discuss one of Greek mythology’s mo...
The Roman Guide to War
What were the secrets of Roman warfare? What is the best way to defeat an enemy… and what does all this have to do with aqueducts? Today Any...
What Can Ancient History Tell Us About Revolutions?
Long before crowds stormed Bastille or Winter Palace, Greek thinkers treated revolution as the ultimate civic nightmare. So how did an exist...