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A Podcast dedicated to bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds. This podcast is provided by Classical Wisdom, to learn more check out www.classicalwisdom.com
This episode is for anyone interested in ancient Greece, democracy, political history, and rhetoric, especially if you want to understand ho...
What does the story of Demeter really tell us about loss, power, and the human experience? In this episode, renowned translator and classici...
What is the point of studying Classics today? Mary Beard explains why the ancient world still shocks, challenges, and reshapes how we think....
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...
Barbarian, witch, murderer… and mother. Today Anya is joined by author and broadcaster Natalie Haynes to discuss one of Greek mythology’s mo...
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...
Long before crowds stormed Bastille or Winter Palace, Greek thinkers treated revolution as the ultimate civic nightmare. So how did an exist...
Existing at the very edge of the Classical world, in both time and geography, Saint Augustine has proven to be immensely influential on the...
What can Plato tell us about life TODAY? Quite a lot, it turns out… Today Anya is joined by Professor Angie Hobbs to discuss the essential a...
Was King Arthur real? What can his story tells us about British history and identity? And what exactly happened to Britain after the Romans...
How is Odysseus like the heroes of Indian literature? And how did two cultures, separated by vast time and distances, come to have such rema...
What can Seneca, the Roman statesman and Stoic, teach us about life today? And how can we teach ourselves to do the right thing? Today Anya...
How did ancient Greek culture accomplish so much? Especially across so many different fields, and in such a comparatively short period of ti...
The West’s greatest peril is forgetfulness, its loss of cultural memory. Without knowing where we came from, how can we know what to defend,...
Who were the women of the Odyssey? How have they been understood (and misunderstood) by history? And what is the secret of Calypso’s sail? T...
Bridging the ancient and the urgent, historian James Romm and acclaimed author and translator Daniel Mendelsohn dive into the dramatic story...
Sometimes stories have a life of their own... literally. Today Anya is joined by Joel Christensen to discuss how mythology acts as a living...
From specific dietary instructions to detailed systems to categorize foods and their health effects, ancient Greeks and Romans tried to opti...
Tell me about a complicated culture… From the Peloponnesian War to the women of ancient mythology, today Anya is joined by Jennifer T. Rober...
Centaurs, Snake-kings, Griffins, and Gorgons... ancient Greek mythology is filled with haunting hybrids. But how did these horrific monsters...
They were two of Rome's most famous and powerful men. Both were respected statesmen and feared generals. Both were crucial figures in t...
What can Aristotle tell us about how we should live today? What are the ancient secrets to a flourishing life? And what is 'the art of...
She was one of the most powerful women of the ancient world… Once mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Cleopatra and Helen of Troy....
What is the key to happiness? It turns out, the Stoics might just have the answer… Today Anya is joined by Christopher Gill to discuss ancie...
It’s no secret that the American Founding Fathers were deeply inspired by the Classics. The words of the ancient Greek and Roman philosopher...
There is a place, a narrow strip of land, where bravery and sacrifice became legendary... where the famed ‘300’ laid down their lives to sav...
From Penelope to Fulvia and beyond, discover the lives of ancient women. Today Anya is joined by Dr. Daisy Dunn, to discuss the ‘missing thr...
Discover the woman who brought Greek mythology to America… Today Anya is joined by Victoria Houseman to discuss the life and legacy of Edith...
While Stoicism is currently all the rage -and for good reason- it isn’t the only philosophy to address some of life’s toughest questions. Fr...
How did two different philosophies - that have seen a resurgence of interest in the Western world - both arrive at such similar conclusions...
What happens AFTER an apocalypse? How did ancient societies rebuild after catastrophic events… and what can that teach us about our world no...
Anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental disorders. Considered pathology, it is the most diagnosed and medicated of all psycholog...
Discover how the best physician is also a philosopher… From the gladiators’ arena to the imperial court, the life and career of the ancient...
It’s philosophy’s ultimate dinner party… and you’re invited. On today’s Classical Wisdom Speaks, Anya is joined by Professor Alex Priou to d...
Discover the ancient nomadic tribe that helped inspire the myth of the Amazons… and their legacy in the world today. On today’s Classical Wi...
They say all philosophy is but a series of footnotes to Plato. Yet the remarkable story of the great philosopher’s life has remained untold—...
Take a deep dive into three of ancient Greece's most fascinating women - both historical and mythological. What can we discover about S...
In a world brimming with information and rapidly shifting beliefs, the lessons from Socrates resonate more than ever. How do we seek knowled...
The ancients had plenty of thoughts about animals... but are their insights helpful to us now? How did they treat animals? What did they thi...
Everyone knows Athens and Sparta...and yet, THEBES is not the common household name it should be. From its captivating mythology to its fant...
Should Ivanka Trump and Hunter Biden marry? Well, Plato might think that was a good idea... Today’’s Classical Wisdom speaks podcast is with...
In the boom time in Roman Britain, 3rd century AD, one Roman Emperor made his mark on the chaotic island before he was canceled in his own t...
What do the ancient Greek goddesses reveal about ancient Greek culture? Why did people craft such immoral and often unlikeable gods? And wha...
The famed actor and comedian, Stephen Fry, discusses the ancient languages, etymology, and the joy of discovering the Classics through ancie...
Flavius Claudius Julianus turned the world upside down. Also known as Julian the Apostate as well as Julian the Philosopher, he ruled Rome a...
Is there evidence to the tales of Aeneas and the Trojan refugees migrating to Italian shores? Classical Wisdom presents Petros Koutoupis, as...
Throughout the ages people have imagined “apocalypses”... but how they determined the end of the world shaped their philosophies... as is st...
How aware are we when we make choices? From playing rock paper scissors and gambling to complex ethical decisions like the trolley problem a...
In 45 B.C., the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero embarked on an almost impossible task... He wrote a philosophical dialogue trying to...
What is the future -as well as the past - of literary fiction? It is time for a Renaissance? Destined for the dustbin of history, to be disc...