Literature and History

Een podcast door Doug Metzger

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  1. Episode 83: Gnosticism

    Gepubliceerd: 28-2-2021
  2. Episode 82: Zoroastrianism

    Gepubliceerd: 31-1-2021
  3. Episode 81: Revelation

    Gepubliceerd: 10-1-2021
  4. Episode 80: The General Epistles

    Gepubliceerd: 14-10-2020
  5. Episode 79: The Pauline Epistles

    Gepubliceerd: 25-9-2020
  6. Episode 78: The Book of Acts

    Gepubliceerd: 11-9-2020
  7. Episode 77: The Gospels

    Gepubliceerd: 30-6-2020
  8. Episode 76: Judea Under Herod

    Gepubliceerd: 7-6-2020
  9. Episode 75: Dusk and Starlight

    Gepubliceerd: 25-4-2020
  10. Episode 74: Marcus Aurelius (The Meditations)

    Gepubliceerd: 14-3-2020
  11. Episode 73: The Golden Ass (Apuleius' The Golden Ass)

    Gepubliceerd: 29-2-2020
  12. Episode 72: Bread and Circuses (Juvenal's Satires)

    Gepubliceerd: 14-2-2020
  13. Episode 71: The Gods Depart (Statius' Thebaid)

    Gepubliceerd: 29-1-2020
  14. Episode 70: Rome's Forgotten Epic (Statius' Thebaid)

    Gepubliceerd: 9-9-2019
  15. Episode 69: Rome's Comic Novel (Petronius' Satyricon)

    Gepubliceerd: 26-8-2019
  16. Episode 68: Love Means Sin (Seneca's Phaedra)

    Gepubliceerd: 5-8-2019
  17. Episode 67: Jaws Dripping Blood (Seneca's Thyestes)

    Gepubliceerd: 17-7-2019
  18. Episode 66: Stoicism, Seneca, St. Paul

    Gepubliceerd: 26-6-2019
  19. Episode 65: Seneca and the Julio-Claudians (The Life of Seneca)

    Gepubliceerd: 30-3-2019
  20. Episode 64: Ovid's Exile (The Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto)

    Gepubliceerd: 23-2-2019

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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.

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