Literature and History
By Doug Metzger
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Episodes: 103
Wendee
Nov 28, 2023
Can't stop. Won't stop listening.
Chris
Aug 31, 2023
One of the most thorough and analytical podcasts I have listened to. It provides great overviews of pieces of literature focusing on the plot but also the background history geography anthropology etc relevant for a complete understanding.
May 9, 2023
BadDadWhy
Mar 23, 2023
I've listened to 100 episodes now. The background and depth gone into is rarely matched. Editing and sound perfect. Humor is appropriate and related. Thanks Doug for spending many hours in my ears.
Mar 15, 2023
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Episode 103: Boethius
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Episode 102: An Old Man's Book (Augustine's City of God, Part 2 of 2)
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Episode 101: Against the Pagans (Augustine's City of God, Part 1 of 2)
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Episode 100: Late Have I Loved You (Augustine's Confessions, Books 9-13)
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Episode 99: The Boy Who Stole Pears (Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-7)
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Episode 98: The Life and Works of Saint Jerome
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Episode 97: Blood and Ivy (Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Books 25-48)
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May 08, 2022 |
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Episode 96: The Last Pagan Epic (Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Books 1-24)
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Episode 95: Rutilius Namatianus
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Episode 94: Ausonius
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Episode 93: Severus' Life of Saint Martin
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Episode 92: Athanasius' Life of Antony
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Episode 91: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Episode 90: Ante-Nicene Catholicism
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Episode 89: The Aethiopica of Heliodorus
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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Episode 88: Ancient Greek Sci-fi
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May 21, 2021 |
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Episode 87: Lucian of Samosata
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May 07, 2021 |
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Episode 86: An Introduction to Late Antiquity
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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Episode 85: River
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Episode 84: Manichaeism
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Episode 83: Gnosticism
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Episode 82: Zoroastrianism
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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Episode 81: Revelation
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Episode 80: The General Epistles
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Episode 79: The Pauline Epistles
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Episode 78: The Book of Acts
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Episode 77: The Gospels
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Episode 76: Judea Under Herod
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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Episode 75: Dusk and Starlight
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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Episode 74: Marcus Aurelius (The Meditations)
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Mar 14, 2020 |
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Episode 73: The Golden Ass (Apuleius' The Golden Ass)
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Feb 29, 2020 |
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Episode 72: Bread and Circuses (Juvenal's Satires)
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Episode 71: The Gods Depart (Statius' Thebaid)
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Episode 70: Rome's Forgotten Epic (Statius' Thebaid)
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Episode 69: Rome's Comic Novel (Petronius' Satyricon)
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Episode 68: Love Means Sin (Seneca's Phaedra)
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Episode 67: Jaws Dripping Blood (Seneca's Thyestes)
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Episode 66: Stoicism, Seneca, St. Paul
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Episode 65: Seneca and the Julio-Claudians (The Life of Seneca)
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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Episode 64: Ovid's Exile (The Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto)
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Feb 23, 2019 |
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Episode 63: All Is in Flux (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 11-15)
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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Episode 62: A Curious Passion (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 6-10)
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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Episode 61: Changes of Shape (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 1-5)
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Episode 60: How to Make Love to a Roman (Ovid's Art of Love and Cure for Love)
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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Episode 59: Early Ovid (Amores, Heroides)
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Episode 58: She Caught Me with Her Eyes (Propertius' Poetry)
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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Episode 57: The World Grows Dim and Black (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 10-12)
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Sep 01, 2018 |
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Episode 56: I Shall Release Hell (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 7-9)
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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Episode 55: Among the Shades (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 4-6)
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Jul 06, 2018 |
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Episode 54: Out of Troy (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 1-3)
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May 31, 2018 |
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Episode 53: Then Came Hard Iron (Virgil's Georgics)
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May 04, 2018 |
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Episode 52: White Flowers Die (Virgil's Eclogues)
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Episode 51: Horace and Augustan Age Poetry
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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Episode 50: Our Brutal Age (Horace's Poetry)
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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Episode 49: The Strange Roots of Love (Catullus' Poetry)
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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Episode 48: The Right and the Expedient (Cicero's Career, 62-43 BCE)
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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Episode 47: O Tempora, O Mores (Cicero's Career, 80-62 BCE)
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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Episode 46: The Republic at Twilight (Cicero's Early Life)
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Dec 09, 2017 |
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Episode 45: The Uncuttables (Lucretius' On the Nature of Things and Epicureanism)
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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Episode 44: Homo Sum (Terence's The Brothers)
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Oct 20, 2017 |
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Episode 43: On the Move (Plautus' The Rope)
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Sep 29, 2017 |
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Episode 42: The Beginnings of Roman Literature
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Sep 17, 2017 |
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Episode 41: Everything So Far
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May 03, 2017 |
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Episode 40: Hellenism and the Birth of the Self
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Episode 39: Medea and the Argonauts (Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts)
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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Episode 38: The Epic Anti-Hero (Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts)
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Mar 22, 2017 |
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Episode 37: The New Comedy (Menander's Old Cantankerous)
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Mar 03, 2017 |
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Episode 36: War and Peace and Sex (Aristophanes' Lysistrata)
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Feb 22, 2017 |
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Episode 35: The Great Thundercrap (Aristophanes' The Clouds)
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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Episode 34: The Traditions of Our Forefathers (Euripides' The Bacchae)
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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Episode 33: Woman the Barbarian (Euripides' Medea)
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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Episode 32: Trees Bending to the Torrent (Sophocles' Antigone)
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Dec 21, 2016 |
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Episode 31: The Requiem at Athens (Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus)
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Dec 07, 2016 |
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Episode 30: Two Legs in the Afternoon (Sophocles' Oedipus the King)
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Nov 23, 2016 |
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Episode 29: The Mound and the Furies (Aeschylus' The Eumenides)
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Nov 11, 2016 |
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Episode 28: A Mother's Curse (Aeschylus' The Libation Bearers)
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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Episode 27: The Bloody King (Aeschylus' Agamemnon)
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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Episode 26: Ancient Greek Theater (The History of 5th-Century BCE Athenian Drama)
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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Episode 25: Lyrical Ballistics (Sappho, Pindar, Archilochus, and Greek Lyric Poetry)
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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Episode 24: God May Relent (The Bible's Prophetic Books)
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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Episode 23: Love. Desire. Exegesis. (The Song of Songs/Solomon)
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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Episode 22: Fatalism (The Book of Ecclesiastes)
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Aug 16, 2016 |
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Episode 21: The Bible's Magic Trick (The Book of Psalms)
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Jul 27, 2016 |
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Episode 20: The Problem of Evil (The Book of Job)
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Jul 15, 2016 |
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Episode 19: The One Who Struggles with God (The Historical Books and Biblical Archaeology)
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Jun 29, 2016 |
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Episode 18: The 613 Commandments (The Pentateuch's Prescriptive Materials)
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Jun 15, 2016 |
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Episode 17: Roots of the Pentateuch (The Pentateuch and Comparative Mythography)
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Jun 01, 2016 |
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Episode 16: Four Main Parts (Introduction to the Bible's Structure)
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May 25, 2016 |
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Episode 15: Canaan (Biblical History and Archaeology)
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May 13, 2016 |
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Episode 14: The Autumn Leaves (Homer's Odyssey, Books 17-24)
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Apr 27, 2016 |
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Episode 13: His Mind Teeming (Homer's Odyssey, Books 9-16)
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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Episode 12: Kleos and Nostos (Homer's Odyssey, Books 1-8)
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Apr 13, 2016 |
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Episode 11: Who Was Homer? (Homer's Iliad, Books 17-24)
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Mar 27, 2016 |
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Episode 10: Homer's Gods (Homer's Iliad, Books 9-16)
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Mar 27, 2016 |
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Episode 9: Glittering Bronze Men (Homer's Iliad, Books 1-8)
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Mar 27, 2016 |
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Episode 8: Before Orthodoxy (Hesiod's Theogony)
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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Episode 7: Hesiod's Lands and Seasons (Hesiod's Works and Days)
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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Episode 6: The Pros and Cons of Wisdom (Ancient Egypt's Wisdom Literature)
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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Episode 5: Beneath the Obelisks (Ancient Egyptian Fiction)
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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Episode 4: Divine Judgment (The Book of the Dead)
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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Episode 3: He Who Saw the Deep (The Epic of Gilgamesh)
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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Episode 2: Before the Flood (The Enuma Elish and Atrahasis)
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)
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Feb 12, 2016 |