Epitome

Bob Gonzalez
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Excerpts from great writings by master writers, storytellers, philosophers, poets as well as original commentary by informed enthusiasts. Genres will range from fiction, drama, and essay to poetry, oratory, and aphorism.

  1. 08/19/2018

    Episode 78 - The Art of Worldly Wisdom - Part 2

    More aphorisms and commentary from Balthasar Gracián, the 17th century Spanish Jesuit philosopher, offering counsel on surviving and thriving in the life of the court and society in general.

  2. 08/12/2018

    Episode 77 - Laotze - Dao De Jing - Passages 28-36

    Our fourth installment of 9-passage sections of the ancient Chinese sage's Classic of the Way and Its Excellence.

  3. 08/05/2018

    Episode 76 - What is Education?

    Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, educator, and famous as "Darwin's Bulldog," for championing the revolutionary naturalist's theory of evolution, offers his definition and explanation of a liberal education.

  4. 07/29/2018

    Episode 75 - Cultivating Peace

    A handful of maxims whose practice can bring quietude and tranquillity to life.

  5. 07/22/2018

    Episode 74 - Thanatopsis - Bryant

    William Cullen Bryant's most famous poem, which translates from the Greek as "A View of Death," written when he was 17 years old.

  6. 07/22/2018

    Episode 73 - An Adventure in India - Voltaire

    Greek philosopher Pythagoras, while sojourning in India, encounters an herb, an oyster, and a mob of Hindus bent on burning two men at the stakes for the perceived heresies of questioning religious traditional wisdom.

  7. 07/08/2018

    Episode 72 - Aphrodite & Ares - Homer

    The story sung by Demodocus, singer of the court of Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians, hosts of Odysseus after his raft washes ashore on the island of Scherie. How Aphrodite, goddess of love, cheated on her husband, Hephaestus, the gods' smithy, with Ares, god of war.

  8. 07/01/2018

    Episode 71 - Time Sonnets II - Shakespeare

    Six sonnets on the theme of time by the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon. Music: John Dowland "Flow My Tears," performed by guitarist Jon Sayles. http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm

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Excerpts from great writings by master writers, storytellers, philosophers, poets as well as original commentary by informed enthusiasts. Genres will range from fiction, drama, and essay to poetry, oratory, and aphorism.

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  • Creator
    Bob Gonzalez
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2018
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Clean
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