Literature and History
En podkast av Doug Metzger
106 Episoder
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Episode 46: The Republic at Twilight (Cicero's Early Life)
Publisert: 9.12.2017 -
Episode 45: The Uncuttables (Lucretius' On the Nature of Things and Epicureanism)
Publisert: 16.11.2017 -
Episode 44: Homo Sum (Terence's The Brothers)
Publisert: 20.10.2017 -
Episode 43: On the Move (Plautus' The Rope)
Publisert: 29.9.2017 -
Episode 42: The Beginnings of Roman Literature
Publisert: 17.9.2017 -
Episode 41: Everything So Far
Publisert: 3.5.2017 -
Episode 40: Hellenism and the Birth of the Self
Publisert: 24.4.2017 -
Episode 39: Medea and the Argonauts (Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts)
Publisert: 4.4.2017 -
Episode 38: The Epic Anti-Hero (Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts)
Publisert: 22.3.2017 -
Episode 37: The New Comedy (Menander's Old Cantankerous)
Publisert: 3.3.2017 -
Episode 36: War and Peace and Sex (Aristophanes' Lysistrata)
Publisert: 22.2.2017 -
Episode 35: The Great Thundercrap (Aristophanes' The Clouds)
Publisert: 7.2.2017 -
Episode 34: The Traditions of Our Forefathers (Euripides' The Bacchae)
Publisert: 24.1.2017 -
Episode 33: Woman the Barbarian (Euripides' Medea)
Publisert: 5.1.2017 -
Episode 32: Trees Bending to the Torrent (Sophocles' Antigone)
Publisert: 21.12.2016 -
Episode 31: The Requiem at Athens (Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus)
Publisert: 7.12.2016 -
Episode 30: Two Legs in the Afternoon (Sophocles' Oedipus the King)
Publisert: 23.11.2016 -
Episode 29: The Mound and the Furies (Aeschylus' The Eumenides)
Publisert: 11.11.2016 -
Episode 28: A Mother's Curse (Aeschylus' The Libation Bearers)
Publisert: 27.10.2016 -
Episode 27: The Bloody King (Aeschylus' Agamemnon)
Publisert: 14.10.2016
With millions of downloads, hundreds of hours of soundtracked content, and an overall emphasis on the cultural history behind famous works of literature, Literature and History is one of the most popular independent podcasts on its subject. Starting with Sumerian cuneiform in 3,100 BCE, Literature and History moves forward in chronological order through Assyriology, Egyptology, the Old Testament, Ancient Greece and Rome, and the birth of Christianity. The show's current season is on Late Antiquity (or 200-700 CE) and the dawn of the Middle Ages. A typical episode (they average about two hours) features a general introduction to a work of literature, then a full summary of that work that expects no prior knowledge, and finally, an analysis of the cultural, biographical, and historical forces that gave rise to the work in question. Original symphonic and ambient background music is woven throughout each show, and all episodes offer free full, illustrated, footnoted transcriptions as well as quizzes for purposes of review. The show has no advertisements, and its host takes pride in a professional approach that avoids chitchat and ephemera and gets straight to the educational content. You can listen to the episodes in any order, although most listeners begin at the beginning and proceed from there, as the podcast itself is chronologically organized. Doug Metzger finished his Ph.D. in literature in 2011. His chief scholarly interest, following his dissertation work, continues to be 19th-century realism and postbellum American philosophy.
