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Episode 6 – The not-so-Dark Ages, medieval intellectuals, and freethinkers

Posted April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

 In episode 6, we get medieval! Find out why the Middle Ages were as much a period of reason and inquiry as inquisition and superstition. Why was the famous […]

Episode 5 – The Caliphate

Posted March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

Why did the medieval Abbasid Caliphs have almost all ancient Greek works of philosophy and science translated into Arabic? How did the long list of medieval Muslim polymaths reconcile abstract […]

Episode 4 – Expert Opinion – Paul Cartledge

Posted March 8, 2018March 22, 2018 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

In our first expert opinion segment, Jacob Mchangama talks to Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University Paul Cartledge. With his intimate knowledge of ancient Greece, we dive deeper […]

Episode 3 – The Age of Persecution

Posted March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

 Why did the polytheist Ancient Romans persecute the followers of the new Jewish sect of “Christians” in the first three centuries AD”? How high was the price that Christians […]

Episode 2 – Liberty or License

Posted February 14, 2018February 15, 2018 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

Rome was the most powerful empire in antiquity. But were the Romans free to speak truth to power? Did history’s first successful Women’s March take place in Rome? And who […]

Episode 1 – Who wishes to speak

Posted October 25, 2017February 12, 2018 Soren StaghojPosted in Episodes

The democracy of Ancient Athens was the birthplace of equal and uninhibited speech. Or Isegoria and parrhesia to the Athenians. Jacob Mchangama guides you through how oratory was central to […]

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