Literature and History
Een podcast door Doug Metzger
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103 Afleveringen
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Episode 103: Boethius
Gepubliceerd: 22-9-2023 -
Episode 102: An Old Man's Book (Augustine's City of God, Part 2 of 2)
Gepubliceerd: 4-3-2023 -
Episode 101: Against the Pagans (Augustine's City of God, Part 1 of 2)
Gepubliceerd: 4-2-2023 -
Episode 100: Late Have I Loved You (Augustine's Confessions, Books 9-13)
Gepubliceerd: 30-12-2022 -
Episode 99: The Boy Who Stole Pears (Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-7)
Gepubliceerd: 10-12-2022 -
Episode 98: The Life and Works of Saint Jerome
Gepubliceerd: 11-11-2022 -
Episode 97: Blood and Ivy (Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Books 25-48)
Gepubliceerd: 8-5-2022 -
Episode 96: The Last Pagan Epic (Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Books 1-24)
Gepubliceerd: 31-10-2021 -
Episode 95: Rutilius Namatianus
Gepubliceerd: 17-10-2021 -
Episode 94: Ausonius
Gepubliceerd: 12-9-2021 -
Episode 93: Severus' Life of Saint Martin
Gepubliceerd: 18-8-2021 -
Episode 92: Athanasius' Life of Antony
Gepubliceerd: 8-8-2021 -
Episode 91: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
Gepubliceerd: 25-7-2021 -
Episode 90: Ante-Nicene Catholicism
Gepubliceerd: 4-7-2021 -
Episode 89: The Aethiopica of Heliodorus
Gepubliceerd: 19-6-2021 -
Episode 88: Ancient Greek Sci-fi
Gepubliceerd: 21-5-2021 -
Episode 87: Lucian of Samosata
Gepubliceerd: 7-5-2021 -
Episode 86: An Introduction to Late Antiquity
Gepubliceerd: 25-4-2021 -
Episode 85: River
Gepubliceerd: 4-4-2021 -
Episode 84: Manichaeism
Gepubliceerd: 14-3-2021
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.