Classical Stuff You Should Know
By A.J. Hanenburg, Graeme Donaldson, and Thomas Magbee
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Henry Hunter
Feb 11, 2025
Ben Phillips
Nov 18, 2024
I love many of the topics. Gave a three because the 'Uhms' are very heavy at times. Perhaps edit those out because they distract from your topic.
Steve
Mar 28, 2022
Graeme, A.J., and Thomas are fun, knowledgeable, and quirky guides through some surprisingly relevant classical works. Informative and thought-provoking podcast!
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A.J., Graeme, and Thomas discuss everything having to do with the classical world. Our aim is to help both educators and laypeople enjoy the classical world as much as they enjoy fine ales and good tales.
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280: Raskolnikov and Narcissism
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May 20, 2025 |
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279: Aesop's Fables
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May 13, 2025 |
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278: Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations"
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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277: "Emma," by Jane Austen
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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276: Dyskolos (my favorite DJ)
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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275: Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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274: The Lord of the Flies
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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273: Against Christian Civilization
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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272: Sir Thomas More
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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271: The Socratic Method
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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270: Phaedo
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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269: Plato v. Aristotle
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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268: Hamlet and Socrates and Death
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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267: Plato's Dialogues: Meno
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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266: A Parley with Youth
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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265: The Great Gatsby
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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264: An interview with Davies Owens and Keith McCurdy
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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263: The Ballad of the White Horse and Some Dudes Who Sing
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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262: The Wrath of Khan
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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261: Montessori
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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260: The Plantagenets 13: A Fairytale
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May 14, 2024 |
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259: Genghis Khan 4: Anda Undone!
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May 07, 2024 |
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258: Plantagenets 12: Three Kings in Three Months
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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257: Plantagenets 11: Bleeding to Death from a Broken Heart
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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256: Genghis Khan 3: Loki and the Frat Battle
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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255: Winnie the Pooh
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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254: Kristin Lavransdatter 2: "I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL"
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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253: Beatrix Potter
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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252: Genghis Khan 2: The Coat Khan and a Wife Named Borte
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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251: Kristin Lavransdatter 1
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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250: Genghis Khan 1
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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249: War of the Roses 10:
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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248: An interview with Pastor C. R. Wiley about his book, "In the House of Tom Bombadil"
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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247: Heart of Darkness
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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246: The War of the Roses 9: A Secret Marriage
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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245: The Birds, by Aristophanes
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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244: Verbs
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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243: De Anima, part 3
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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242: The Frogs, by Aristophanes
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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241: Dogma and the Tripartite Soul
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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240: De Anima 2
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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239: Hermeneutics
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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238: De Anima 1: A Number that Moves Itself
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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237: War of the Roses 8: The King of Bling
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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236: "The Clouds," by Aristophanes
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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235: Human Rights
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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234: The War of the Roses 7: Everybody Loses Their Lead
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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233: Love What Lasts: An Interview with Josh Gibbs
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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232: The Fed
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May 30, 2023 |
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231: The Plague
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May 23, 2023 |
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230: The Gold Standard
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May 02, 2023 |
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229: Thought Experiments
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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228: The Pomposity of ChatGPT
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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227: The final Kantdown
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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226: War of the Roses 6: Wormwood
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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225: Festschrift
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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224: Kant IV: Get them endsssss
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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223: The War of the Roses 5: The Mad King
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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222: Leaf by Niggle by Tolkien
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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221: The Discarded Image
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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220: I Kant Stop: "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals" pt. DEUX
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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219: War of the Roses 4: The Bookish King Lands a Hottie
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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218: I just Kant: "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals"
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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217: The Nicomachean Ethics on why children are bad
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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216: Plato's Crito
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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215: Learning in Wartime
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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214: Plato's Apology
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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213: Coleridge and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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212: Plato's Dialogue, "Euthyphro"
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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211: War of the Roses 3: The Romantic Queen and the Monkish King
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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210: Children's Lit - Live at Paideia!
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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209: The Social Contract: Rousseau goes ham all over Christianity
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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208: War of the roses: The Battle of Agincourt
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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207: Nietzsche, Leopardi, and the Meaning of Meaning
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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206: War of the Roses: The Roots
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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205: The Social Contract 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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204: Frederick Douglass on the 5th of July
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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203: Bronowski's "The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination"
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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202: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract" (Compact?)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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201: On the Genealogy of Morality
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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200: What are Wordsworth?
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May 31, 2022 |
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199: The Master and Margarita
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May 24, 2022 |
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198: The Proslogion
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May 03, 2022 |
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197: Sympathy and Satan
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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196: Giacomo Leopardi
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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195: Isaac Asimov's "Foundation"
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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194: Ulysses, by James Joyce
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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An Interview with Joshua Gibbs
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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193: So Your Parents are Thinking of Sending You to a Classical Christian School
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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192: Waiting for Godot
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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191: Atlas Shrugged and the Therapeutic Man
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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190: Herodotus IV: Cambyses "The Passable"
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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189: Leibniz and the best of all possible worlds
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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188: Four reasons why classical education can't happen
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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187: Atlas Shrugged: BECOME A TITAN OF INDUSTRY
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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186: The Tao Te Ching
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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185: Causation
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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184: Advice from a Deep Friar
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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183: Existentialism is a Humanism
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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182: Herodotus III: Egypt and Water Horses
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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181: Great Expectations
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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180: Herodotus II: Cyrus the Virus
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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179: The Enchiridion, by Epictetus
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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178: Foil
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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177: How to Solve the Trolley Problem
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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176: The Communist Manifesto
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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175: Sir Gawain and the Decent Film
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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174: Herodotus, History, and Happiness
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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173: The Happy Equation
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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172: Intro to the Epics
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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171: A Retrospective from the Ombudsman of Fun
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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170: John Donne and a Crash Course to Poetry
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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169: Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling"
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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168: The Tempest
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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167: How We Got the Book of Common Prayer
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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166: Machiavelli's "The Prince" 2: Pie Fortress
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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165: The Great Divorce
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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164: Euclid and his "Elements"
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May 25, 2021 |
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163: Machiavelli's "The Prince" or "How to kill friends and influence people."
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May 18, 2021 |
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162: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
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May 11, 2021 |
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161: Rodin's Gates of Hell
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May 04, 2021 |
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160: Modern Maths
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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159: Satan in Despair, from Milton's Paradise Lost
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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158: Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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157: The Intellectual Life
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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156: The Faust and the Furious 2: Mopey Ol' Stiff
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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155: The Cathars, or "Helios's Acolytes of Love"
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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154: Herding cats the right way according to Milton
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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153: The Faust and the Furious 1
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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152: Bamboozled by "A History of Private Life"
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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151: Is the Bible Busted?
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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150: The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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149: Perelandra
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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148: Ackbethmay (I'm sitting in a theater)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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147: 'Sall Good
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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146: A Defense of Christmas
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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145: Planting the Seeds of Poetry and "The Fall of Rome"
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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144: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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143: Purgatoryhohoho
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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142: Purgatorybro
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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141: Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus"
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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140: Till [The Romantics] Have Faces
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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139: Purgatory, Yo
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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138: The Stranger
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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137: I See Satan Fall Again, or "Lightning Does Strike Twice"
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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136: Crime and Punishment
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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135: Pastoral Theology and the Classical Tradition
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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134: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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133: Don Quixote
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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132: The Poetic Edda 2: An Otter Named "Otter"
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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131: Intellectus for the Rest of Us
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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130: Why English teachers ARE liars
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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129: The Poetic Edda: "Odin's Pickled Head"
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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128: Antonio Gramsci
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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127: Plato X - "Er Goes to Hell"
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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126: Patronage
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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125: Plato IX: Tyrone
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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124: Government Shmovernment
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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123: Purgatorio: not just what a happy, Italian cat says
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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122: Plato VIII: Aaron, Timmy, Ollie, Dmitri, and Tyrone
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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121: The Ballad of The White Horse, or "Black Beauty II, The Prequel"
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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120: Climbing Parnassus Two: Electric Boogaloo
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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119: Plato VII: Math till you're thirty.
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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118: What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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117: Potty. I mean pottery. Wait . . . poetry. Nailed it.
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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116: Plato VI: Philosophers are Wasters and Charlatans
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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115:After Virtue
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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114: Climbing Parnassus
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Advent
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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113: Knights Templar, Part III: Friday the 13th. For serious.
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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112: The Republic V: Plato and the Battle Children
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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111: Harold Bloom, Clearly a Gardener
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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110: The Republic, Book IV
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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109: Divergence, Convergence, and Wisdom
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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108: The Knights Templar, Part II, or "It's Pronounced 'Kinnigget'"
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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107: The Knights Templar, Part I
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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106: St. Francesco
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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105: The Republic, Book III
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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104: Commonplace
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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103: Something They Will Not Forget
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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102: The Republic: Book 2
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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101: Mimesis, Kind of
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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100: Enneagrammar
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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99: The Eight Tempting Thoughts
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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98: "Herman Who?" LIVE!
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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97: Augustine, The Great Hippo Lord
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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96: The Republic: Book 1
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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95: Discipline
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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94: The Praise of Folly
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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93: Braver New World
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Arthur Graeme Donaldson Hanenburg Magbee III
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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92: Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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91: The Argonautica (Jason and the Golden Fleece)
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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90: Brave New World
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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89: Another Sort of Learning
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May 28, 2019 |
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88: The Heroides
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May 21, 2019 |
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87: Distributism
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May 14, 2019 |
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86: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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May 07, 2019 |
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85: Mimetic Teaching
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Easter!
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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84: Plantagenets VI: Richie the Two
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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83: More chaw, sir?
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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82: The Wasteland
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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81: Chaw, Sir!
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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80: Everyone's a Critic
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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79: Plantagenets V: The Black Death and Pedro the Cruel
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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78: Cicero's "On Doody" 3: Buyer Beware
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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77: I See Hair Again, or "Heresy 2, the Re-schisming"
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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76: Plantagenets 4, or "ROCKY GOES MEDIEVAL"
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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75: St. Valentino, the Italian
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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74: Cicero, On Doody . . . number two
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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73: Pandemonium
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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72: Hair-I-see
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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71: Cicero's "On Doody" [sic], Book I
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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70: Hamlet, the Emo Teen
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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69: Know Thyself (and thine own patronus)
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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68: Saint Nick and the Barrel Children
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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67: Chronological Snobbery
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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66: The Funeral Oration of Pericles
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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65: Satire
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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64: Blake's Marriage (of Heaven and Hell)
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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63: Plantagenets III
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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62: How to Be Unlucky
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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61: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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60: The Song of Roland
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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59: Antigone
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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58: Frankestein
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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57: Mike's Last Judgment
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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56: Oedipus at Colonus
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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55: The Abolition of Man Pt. 3
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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54: The Abolition of Man Pt. 2: The Tao
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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53: The Abolition of Man Pt. 1: Men Without Chests
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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52: The Consolation of Philosophy
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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51: The Complexities of Oedipus
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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50: Wit
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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49: Gilgamesh
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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48: On Fairy Stories
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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47: How to Read a Book
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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46: Shakespeare the Plagiarist
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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45: Why English Teachers Aren't Liars
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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44: Translation
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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43: Beowulf
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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42: Aristotle's Four Causes
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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41: The Grand Inquisitor
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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40: What is Classical Education?
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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39: How to Rite Gooder
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May 29, 2018 |
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38: What are people for?
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May 22, 2018 |
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37: The History of the Plantagenets II
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May 15, 2018 |
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36: The History of the Plantagenets
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May 08, 2018 |
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35: The benefits of iliterasee [sic]
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May 01, 2018 |
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34: The Odyssey Part 2
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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33: The Odyssey, Part I
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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32: The Deep Joy of Romanticism
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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31: University
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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30: Socrates
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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29: Usury doesn't mean what you think it means. Probably.
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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28: Dante and his Comedy
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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27: Adequatio
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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26: Milton's Fall
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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25: The Memory Palace
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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24: Acedia
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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23: The Theology of Paradise Lost
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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22: Classical Rhetorical Form
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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21: Friendship!
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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20: The Four Senses of Scripture
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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19: Dorothy Sayers, or "THE TRIVIUM - REDUX"
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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18: The Ideal Type
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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17: The Trivium
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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16: Leisure
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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15: The seven deadly sins
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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14: Logical Fallacies, Part Deux
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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13: Logical Fallacies, Part 1
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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12: What IS classical?
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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11: Ethos, Logos, Pathos
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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10: The House of Atreus
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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9: The Spheres
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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8: Metaphors
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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7: Iliad book XXII
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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6: Ratio and Intellectus
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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5: The Common Topics
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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4: The Christian Knight
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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3: Intro to the Epics
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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2: Homer
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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1: The Tripartite Soul
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Nov 01, 2017 |