Herein Dave and Jeff resume their tour through Henri-Irénée Marrou's ground-breadking volume on ancient education. We wrap up Chapter VI, "The Masters of the Classical Tradition", and see what Plato thought about mathematics, elementary education, gymnastics, plastic-segmented jumpropes, playing the triangle and blocks in Kindergarten, and more. How was Plato's Academy organized? Was it a rigorous shool for political science, a training ground for the abstruse, esoteric, and recondite? Or did it mostly exist in Plato's mind, a thought experiment akin to not ever seeing an actual circle? We tackle these and other questions, including "What are the olfactory nuances of the Athens Metro ride to Piraeus on a sunny January day?" This is something we wall want to know, so tune in!
Giving Goliath his Due: Mycenaeans and Philistines, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 129)
Giving Goliath his Due: Mycenaeans and Philistines, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 128)
Do the Rite Thing: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 127)
No Pain, No Grain: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 126)
Whoa, Milo, Come on, Come On, Let’s Go: The Greatest Ancient Athlete (Ad Navseam, Episode 125)
Use Your Allusion II: Classics in Pop Music (Ad Navseam, Episode 124)
Gildy as Charged: Arachne and Midas in two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 123)
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: A Conversation with Margolit Fox (Ad Navseam, Episode 122)
Loading the Canons: The Art of Classical Rhetoric (Ad Navseam, Episode 121)
Here Comes the Rage Again: Aeneid XII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 120)
Duel Unto Others: Aeneid XII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 119)
Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature II (Ad Navseam, Episode 118)
Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature I (Ad Navseam, Episode 117)
A Thrilla with Camilla: Aeneid XI, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 116)
With Pallas toward None: Aeneid XI, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 115)
Male Pattern Baldric: Aeneid X, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 114)
All’s Hair in Love and War! Aeneid X, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 113)
Translating Samuel Rutherford’s Examen Arminianismi (Ad Navseam, Episode 112)
Turnus Loose: War in Aeneid IX, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 111)
A Night to Dismember: The Tragedy of Nisus and Euryalus in Aeneid IX, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 110)
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