Western Civ

By: Adam Walsh
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  • A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved into a dominant world position.
    Copyright Adam Walsh
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  • Aesop's Fables: A New Translation

    Aesop's Fables: A New Translation
    Oct 1 2024
    Aesop’s fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like “The Tortoise and the Hare,” “The Dog in the Manger,” and “Sour Grapes” have captivated us for generations. The fables delight us and teach timeless truths. Aesop’s tales offer us a world fundamentally simpler to ours—one with clear good and plain evil—but nonetheless one that is marked by political nuance and literary complexity.

    Newly translated and annotated by renowned scholar Robin Waterfield, this definitive translation shines a new light on four hundred of Aesop’s most enduring fables.

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    40 mins
  • Episode 319: The Gunpowder Plot

    Episode 319: The Gunpowder Plot
    Sep 27 2024
    Guy Fawkes et al decide to blow up King James I and the English Parliament. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work...

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    24 mins
  • Episode 318: James I

    Episode 318: James I
    Sep 20 2024
    The end of the reign of Elizabeth I ends the Tudor dynasty. James I becomes the first of the short-lived Stuart line. His reign begins with no shortage of economic headaches.

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    27 mins

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