Today we’re kicking off a new series called ‘The Psychological Significance of the Classic Myths’, starting with the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
We’ll discuss the dangers of creating your own reality, taking risks, hubris, arrogance, living a life of virtue, sin, the fall of Lucifer, the Dunning Krueger Effect, poetry from W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams, paintings by Titian and Brueghel, and much more.
Ep 35 - Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Ep 34 - The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Ep 33 - Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
Ep 32 - Lessons Learned from Running a Book Club
Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)
Ep 30 - Answering Your Bookish Questions - The Q&A Show
Ep 29 - How to Live the Great Books (Approaches to Literature)
Ep 28 - The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
Ep 27 - Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Ep 26 - Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung)
Ep 25 - The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ep 24 - How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A Guide to Bibliotherapy)
Ep 23 - How to Read Imaginative Literature (Lessons from Lockdown)
Ep 22 - Join the Hardcore Literature Book Club
Ep 21 - What Is Art? (Tolstoy)
Ep 20 - Shakespeare's Sonnets
Ep 19 - Reading and Life Goals for 2021
Ep 18 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Ep 17 - The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
Ep 16 - Richard III (Shakespeare)
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