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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
  • Episode 317: Henry IV of France

    Episode 317: Henry IV of France
    Sep 13 2024
    Henry of Navarre spends several years fighting for the crown of France, converts to Catholicism (again), and issues the famous Edict of Nantes.

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    30 mins
  • Episode 316: The End of Tudor England

    Episode 316: The End of Tudor England
    Sep 6 2024
    Few dynasties have had the impact on a modern state more so than the Tudors on England. Yet, the dynasty lasted hardly more than a century. Elizabeth I, the second born daughter of Henry VIII, who reigned after her younger brother and elder sister, would prove to be the final name on the list. Today we finish her story as the sun sets on Tudor England.

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    55 mins
  • Western Civ 2.0 Episode 73: Tiberius Gracchus

    Western Civ 2.0 Episode 73: Tiberius Gracchus
    Sep 2 2024
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    After the Third Punic War, the Romans wasted little time turning on each other. Long-standing economic inequality became the issue of the late second century BCE and would, eventually, bring down the republic. In the late 140s, however, Tiberius Gracchus believed his land redistribution scheme might just solve the problem. The Senate felt otherwise. But, in the end, it was not the Lex Agraria per se that cost Tiberius his life. Rather, it was his refusal to play the political game by the old rules.
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    44 mins
  • Episode 315: England Triumphant

    Episode 315: England Triumphant
    Aug 30 2024
    England emerges from the defeat of the Spanish Armada, its stock never higher. Yet all around Elizabeth the signs of the end of the Tudor age continue to emerge.

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    22 mins
  • Episode 314: The End of the Valois

    Episode 314: The End of the Valois
    Aug 23 2024
    We enter this episode with an heir and a spare. We end with neither and the end of France's ruling house since the High Middle Ages.

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    46 mins