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hail paganism.

wow thank you so much

George Thomas makes good translations. Thank you for doing this. I think the Epicurean Velleius' arguments in De Natura Deorum are really the best in the book!

Thanks for this i just randomly thought of this today and wanted to look into it

I don't discount Oral Tradition. My peoples were from Galatia, and Ireland. They hail from the Alps. I frequently joke about being an Alpine Bonobo for that reason. In the oral tradition of the Irish, in which my family is represented, there are tales of Dark Men covered in Scarification, from South of the Moors, who came to Ireland looking for Revenge. I believe the Sea People were West African. And my ancestors likely joined them in assaulting the South. In those tales, my kin traveled to Anatolia for a time.

Nice discussion thanks!

What an amazing social and like as a real lecture it was, thanks for Everyone, who makes it happen. I am very sorry for the " Dark Ages ", from which the World is still struggling with the consequences of those years. I am a descendant of Grandparents&Mothers, who were immigrated from Greece and Bulgaria during the Wars in the 20 th Century , and I think my Ancestors were sent those places during the Ottoman reign. So, eventhough, I am jobless here for about twenty years, and we have been struggling with the issues to be alive, but Thank God that we are at Home. And here in Anatolia, I feel like, we, my Family and I are the Descendants of the Trojans, Hitites, Hatties, Luvvies, Greeks, Hebrews and ofcourse the Turks and the other Mosaic Nations of this Geography.

It's amoral to imprint your culture on others for the purposes of taking away their free will.. very powerful statement.

Excellent, but too many new rabbit holes to run down! Thank you. @34 min: Exactly. My house, now that I'm down to just myself and one dog, is a major drag, time and resources. Really need to off-load and get a much smaller home, maybe even somewhere other than the US.

The Confederacy was our Founding Father's America- Lincoln and the early Republicans were a new America. He has it backwards. The modern left are not the Confederacy. They were not connected at all. The brave Southern patriots who fought for their homes. Lincoln and the Republicans destroyed everything Washington built, and somehow "conservatives" consider him a hero? I think he' s not a real historian.

This is absolutely brilliant and absolutely relevant today, thank you !!

I can't believe there are people who thinks the ancients wouldn't have these kinds of theories and logic. It feels to me like Humans are incredibly proficient at recognizing patterns, and weighing variable options for a desired outcome among possibilities.

I recognize Prof. Strauss. I'm all in :-)

Is it possible to delete the sound ?

Fascinating. I'm dead serious about wanting to see the resurrection of our ethnic polytheism; now, temples are being built in Italy for the first time in 1½ millennia.

Before I watch, I have to say I am not the biggest fan of Cicero or the Roman Senate. I prefer the Greek conceptualization of a Collective Nous, or Psyche, that birthed Logos and Ethos as the particular Hule of the Human Species. This 'collective nous' is what Occidental Nations came to refer to as God. Having a deep understanding of the hule of man gives one the ability to throw hex, motion (a curveball), into the Logos of the Human Psyche, and therein the Human Nous. -A Cheshire Cat

great dialogue

Usually when you find an hour-long video about X or Y battle (Gaugamela, Cannae, Alesia, you name it), you end up with the most cliché biography of the main protagonist, and maybe 5 minutes on the actual battle. Military isn't even what interests me the most in history, still, that's disappointing. But you're not lying here, this is truly almost 2 hours dedicated to Actium, so thanks for this amazing content, thanks for those amazing guests, and thanks for putting that all under the right title.

the background music was weirdly loud

What about auto-fiction?

Ezra wasn't a judge, he was a scribe...

I always considered Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses to be the sequel to The Odyssey.

Great technique

this was very good. thanks

Did Mr. Crawford study classical Greek or perhaps even Modern Greek? Thanks

Excellent panel and fun discussion. I wasn’t familiar with Angie Hobbs, probably because I’m in the US, but Pigliucci and Robertson are always great.

Sadly, world leaders who need to grapple with wars or the potential of wars, have generals and lawyers as counselors. Why not more philosophers as their counsel?

He was one of my professors in grad school. Dr. P is a true thinker. Absolutely love this man and his work.

Thank you very much for a fascinating discussion!

Reminds me of the Yankee Doodle origins. It started as an insult song by the British and ended up being embraced by Americans

Fantastic! My life's work in Practical Philosophy has been premised on the fact that people are far more intelligent than their vocabulary and language skills- most people can't articulate their philosophical thinking easily and this includes 5-YEAR-OLDS (as well as Corporate leaders, Gardeners & non literate adults) who CAN do advanced logical reasoning and speculative philosophy.

😅 At 45 mins The Meditations were Marcus' private diary/dialogue with him self. But people still virtue signal to themselves, even if they try not to. That's not "performative", but the effort to "Gee oneself up" can easily slide into 'bigging oneself up' in moral terms. It's just a natural human tendency, the purpose of which is to prevent despair over one's failings so that one doesn't give up or fall into Depression. Because a depressed person isn't much use to themselves or others - IMO.

The fact that Marcus was fighting DEFENSIVE wars is crucially important to this question.

Fascinating discussion, putting an historical figure right up there with today's struggles, and showing that questions raised today about war were being raised then... interesting and scarily relevant to us today

thank you for this the gentleman on the right was (for me) very hard to hear ciao paul

Interesting dialogue, and enjoyed the historical shares~ ~ 59:00 Following actual reading of Gay's plagiarised material: The harm is a) breach of student and community trust due to double standards; b) not demonstrating one's capability to do the heavy lifting for a role (e.g., post-grad or president); and c) violating another individual's right to their intellectual property Amongst First Nations in Australia, there are Storykeepers, only they can share the story, the knowledge...it's not a Western concept to 'own' ideas, knowledge, and to require permission for use, via acknowledgement or payment.

Little more than a veiled attempt to espouse a particular political ideology using tenuous historical research. This is generally an excellent podcast and hopefully in the future it will feature historians with credible backgrounds.

the gem that saved the west

Where can I access data storage materials; video interviews with native speakers etc. I'd like to learn Ukrainian next, but Linear A is my main focus as decryption

Interesting subject, many thanks for bringing this on. A question, did all those tens of rebellions over 400 years contributed to the fall of Rome?

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Gonna have to skip this one. Cultural Diffusion, specifically with Mesopotamians, led to the fall of Rome. Numerous times. There is no such thing as Judeo-Christian, and Greco-Roman society put forth its greatest works as a Christian Entity. It is the Sistine Chapel, not the Sistine Synagogue. And no, I am not supporting Israel in any more War Profiteering Schemes.

Religion will never be real and its pronounced Jew Day ism not judy ism

Great show!

What a wonderful and informative interview! We learned a lot. Thank you for hosting Dr.Papadopoulos.

wow! as a historian I did not know about the ancient rivers of Athens! I know the ditch that now flows north of the Acropolis, but the fact that the Eridanus flowed (flows) from Mt. Lycebetus is fascinating! Thanks

EVERYTHING we "know" about "Atlantis" come from a few LINES in Plato. Go read it yourself. Takes waaaaay less than this blather.

"Interesting", "fascinating", "Wowey-Neato".........sigh.......and your archaeological evidence, "Doctor"? No, of course there isn't any.

Correct title: "Atlantis" is only mentioned in a few lines by Plato with ZERO physical evidence to support it in any way. The End.