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Defining "Culture" | Episode CVII
Send a textDownload Ekho: ancientlanguage.com/ekho/Subscribe to New Humanists+ for bonus episodes: buzzsprout.com/1791279/subscribePop culture. Cancel culture. Judeo-Christian culture. Everyone likes…
Technology Versus the Classics, feat. Timothy Griffith | Episode CVI
Send a textWhen the Loeb Classical Library was launched, the greatest language teacher of the age, W.H.D. Rouse, wrote an essay meant to promote the Loebs by extolling the magnificence of Greek…
Straussian Aristocracy, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CV
Send a textLiberal education is for the man of leisure: Either a gentleman engaged in politics, or a philosopher engaged in contemplation. What role, then, can liberal learning have in a mass…
Out of the Steppe, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIV
Send a textWhat do you think of laryngeals? How should we refer to the Anatolian languages? Where do you stand on Gimbutas and Renfrew? In this episode of New Humanists, Dr. Colin Gorrie helps guide…
Enter the Indo-Europeans, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIII
Send a textSupposedly, about half of the world population speaks languages that all come from one root language: Proto-Indo-European. How do we know, and where did "PIE" come from? Ukraine, Anatolia,…
The Sophists Are the Founders of Classical Education | Episode CII
Send a textThe classical education revival movement began in the 1980s as a DIY, grassroots attempt to recover the medieval liberal arts, most notably the Trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.…
Big Bad Leo Strauss, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CI
Send a textWhat is liberal education? It's the prompt that has launched one thousand essays, and in a 1959 lecture at the University of Chicago, the (in)famous Leo Strauss gave his answer. Despite…
Time Present, Time Past, Time Future | Episode C
Send a textIn celebration of the 100th episode of New Humanists, we do an extended episode that is a retrospective, discussing the history of the Ancient Language Institute and the New Humanists…
Socrates Had It Coming | Episode XCIX
Send a textSocrates taught his students contempt for the gods, how to defraud creditors, and useless trivialities about flea-jumping. Or at least, that's how Socrates appears in the comedy Clouds. If…
Do "Christian" and "Classical" Go Together? feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XCVIII
Send a textIn the 4th century AD, two Christian friends - Basil and Gregory - travelled from Cappadocia to Athens to go study Greek literature with Libanius, the leading rhetorician of the time.…
Jocks Versus Nerds | Episode XCVII
Send a textWe tend to think of the Athenians as philosophers, architects, and mathematicians. But their highest devotion was rather to sports and to music. These priorities are evident from their…
That Other Dorothy Sayers Lecture | Episode XCVI
Send a textEveryone knows "The Lost Tools of Learning." But did you know Dorothy Sayers delivered another, longer, and even more interesting lecture on education, all about learning Latin? Sayers…
Ahh, the Greeks! | Episode XCV
Send a text"Παιδεία found its realization in παιδεραστία." This is how Henri-Irénée Marrou characterizes the relationship between paideia and pederasty. The latter fulfilles the former. Indeed, few…
Is Christianity Kitsch? | Episode XCIV
Send a textWhat if we find Norse myth or Greco-Roman myth more aesthetically pleasing than Christianity? Should we believe in the pagan gods instead? Is the Bible actually good art? Is Christian…
Sparta: Appalling and Enthralling | Episode XCIII
Send a textTHIS IS SPARTA. Xenophon said that, even in his day, the rest of the Greeks thought Sparta's laws wholly strange: "all men praise such institutions, but no state chooses to imitate them."…
Sparta Before the Reactionary Turn | Episode XCII
Send a textWe think of Sparta as a grim place, more of a military barracks with some civilians attached than an actual city. Its inhumane marriage laws, nauseating eugenics program, brutal…
How to Raise an Achilles | Episode XCI
Send a textPlato called Homer "the educator of all Greece." But what is a Homeric education? What were the Greeks learning from their supreme bard? Furthermore, the phrase "Homeric education"…
Gamble, Marrou, and the Uses of History | Episode XC
Send a textWhy study history? To understand ourselves? To pass on the tradition of our ancestors to our progeny? To build something new? Jonathan and Ryan compare Richard M. Gamble's and Henri-Irénée…
Philosophy Versus the Liberal Arts | Episode LXXXIX
Send a textThe wise man, like Abraham, does not spurn Hagar. For she is merely preparatory to Sarah. This is the analogy that the great Jewish Platonist, Philo of Alexandria, makes when discussing an…
Christian Gnosticism? | Episode LXXXVIII
Send a textClement of Alexandria was one of the many luminaries of the Catechectical School of Alexandria, one of the early church's most distinguished centers of learning and theology. His argument…
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