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Classical Wisdom Speaks

by Classical Wisdom

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

100 episodes
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1
What Can Ancient History Tell Us About Revolutions?
1:21:38 Mar 12, 2026
2
Slave of God: Should We Rethink St. Augustine?
41:34 Feb 26, 2026
3
How Plato Explains the Modern World
47:58 Feb 12, 2026
4
Man or Myth? King Arthur and Rome's Legacy in Britain
49:56 Feb 1, 2026
5
Echoes in Ancient Texts: India and Ancient Greece
32:20 Jan 15, 2026
6
The Life-Changing Lessons of Stoicism
36:50 Jan 3, 2026
7
How Ancient Greece Revolutionized Thought
38:22 Dec 19, 2025
8
Have We Broken the Golden Thread? Why the West’s Future Depends on Remembering Its Past
1:39:15 Dec 5, 2025
9
Homer's Forgotten Women
32:28 Nov 25, 2025
10
Plato and the Tyrant: What Inspired Philosophy's Greatest Masterpiece?
1:01:34 Nov 6, 2025
11
The Life of Stories
50:00 Oct 23, 2025
12
The Ancient Secrets to a Healthy Diet
1:11:12 Oct 9, 2025
13
They Contain Multitudes: The Contradictions of the Ancient Greeks
29:05 Sep 25, 2025
14
The Meaning of Monsters in Greek Mythology
1:23:17 Sep 11, 2025
15
Rome's Greatest Rivalry?
50:33 Aug 28, 2025
16
Aristotle and the Good Life
33:51 Aug 19, 2025
17
Ancient Assyria's Forgotten Queen
37:19 Jul 31, 2025
18
Stoicism and the Secret to Happiness
37:17 Jul 17, 2025
19
How the Classics Inspired America's Founders
33:51 Jul 3, 2025
20
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
1:13:00 Jun 12, 2025
21
Women of the Ancient World
26:44 May 29, 2025
22
The First Lady of Greek Mythology
26:03 May 15, 2025
23
Beyond Stoicism
1:28:08 May 1, 2025
24
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
1:19:55 Apr 17, 2025
25
How Did Ancient Civilizations Rebuild?
39:30 Apr 3, 2025
26
The Philosophy of Anxiety
1:18:47 Mar 31, 2025
27
Galen: Doctor to the Emperors
45:02 Mar 6, 2025
28
A Different Take on Plato
31:15 Feb 20, 2025
29
Secrets of the Scythians
45:46 Feb 7, 2025
30
The Truth About the Life of Plato
38:09 Jan 23, 2025
31
Ancient Greece's Most Complicated Women?
49:14 Jan 10, 2025
32
Did Socrates Teach Morality?
1:28:12 Dec 19, 2024
33
How Should We Treat Animals?
40:41 Dec 5, 2024
34
The Story of Thebes
2:28:46 Nov 12, 2024
35
Who should guard the guardians? Can we find rulers who don’t want to rule? With Melissa Lane
42:28 Oct 18, 2024
36
Magnus Maximus & Roman Britain in the 4th Century AD
31:44 Sep 14, 2024
37
Should We Like the Ancient Greek Goddesses? Divine Might With Natalie Haynes
44:52 Aug 24, 2024
38
Why Myths Matter - With Stephen Fry
1:00:26 Aug 20, 2024
39
Who Was Julian? Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
53:15 Jun 26, 2024
40
Who Was the Legendary Aeneas and Was He Real?
1:20:22 May 16, 2024
41
Apocalypse Now... Versus Apocalypse Then
42:59 Apr 24, 2024
42
Game Theory in the Ancient World
31:40 Apr 3, 2024
43
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero and the Philosophical Approaches to God
1:06:37 Mar 20, 2024
44
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
1:05:19 Mar 6, 2024
45
The Gathas, Zoroastrianism, and the Ancient World
1:20:36 Feb 13, 2024
46
The Sequel to the Odyssey? With Tad Crawford
40:07 Feb 8, 2024
47
Was Aeneas a Classical Myth or Bronze Age Hero?
51:17 Jan 31, 2024
48
Was Marcus Aurelius a TRUE Stoic? Panel with Angie Hobbs, Massimo Pigliucci and Donald Robertson
55:40 Jan 24, 2024
49
Plagiarism: What's the Problem?
1:27:47 Jan 21, 2024
50
Why do some “Big Caesars and Little Caesars” Rise to the Top?
38:54 Jan 11, 2024
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