Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny? (Rep. VIII) Plato argued that the inevitable next step in political evolution after democracy is tyranny. Many political thinkers throughout history agreed with him. Were they right?
The Hittite-Homer Connection? w/ Mary Bachvarova For thousands of years, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were the oldest epic stories that Europeans know of. But is it possible that Homer was, in turn, influenced by the stories of other civilizations to the east of Greece?
A History of Epic w/ Gregory Nagy & Leonard Muellner What can anthropology tell us about the origins of humanity's oldest epic stories? And what can these epics, in turn, tell us about our undying fascination with heroes?
Homer's Meta-Odyssey w/ Richard Martin Mythology expert Richard Martin joins us to discuss why the Odyssey has been considered great story-telling by audiences across millennia.
Dying for Immortality in Homer's Iliad w/ Andrew Ford What makes the Iliad so...epic? And what kind of vision of the world does Homer provide to his audiences?
