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The duel between the Horatii brothers and the Curiatii brothers seemed to settle the Roman-Alban dispute and give Rome authority over Alba. But wily Mettius Fufetius has a trick or two up his sleeve. Meanwhile, the one surviving Horatius brother strikes down his sister in cold blood, an incident Jacques-Louis David drew but never ended up painting. The civilized three-on-three duel now threatens to give way to an all-out war of extermination between Rome and Alba. This is the sixth episode of "No Republic Was Ever Greater," a podcast series examining the rise of the Roman Empire through the work of Livy and Machiavelli. 


Livy's Ab Urbe Condita: https://amzn.to/3gYwtbh


Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: https://amzn.to/3NtNBSj


Fustel de Coulanges's La Cité Antique (French): https://amzn.to/3yzATuZ


Fustel de Coulanges's The Ancient City (English): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780648690542


Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_the_Horatii


Nicolas Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women#/media/File:L'Enl%C3%A8vement_des_Sabines_%E2%80%93_Nicolas_Poussin_%E2%80%93_Mus%C3%A9e_du_Louvre,_INV_7290_%E2%80%93_Q3110586.jpg


Arlette Clavet's Unpublished Studies for 'The Oath of the Horatii': https://www.jstor.org/stable/1552932


Corneille's Horace: https://amzn.to/41zF1Iy


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After the long peace of Numa's reign, Rome gets a new king, even more ferocious than Romulus: Tullus Hostilius. As soon as he comes to power, he begins looking for a way to start a war (while keeping a good conscience about it). This is the fifth episode of "No Republic Was Ever Greater," a podcast series examining the rise of the Roman Empire through the work of Livy and Machiavelli. 


Livy's Ab Urbe Condita: https://amzn.to/3gYwtbh


Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: https://amzn.to/3NtNBSj


Fustel de Coulanges's La Cité Antique (French): https://amzn.to/3yzATuZ


Fustel de Coulanges's The Ancient City (English): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780648690542


Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780140449235


J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780547928210


Hesiod's Theogony: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780199538317


Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_the_Horatii


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Abraham Lincoln spent less than 1 year of his life going to school. Nevertheless, he became a lawyer, a surveyor, and one of the greatest statesmen in American history. He also carried on correspondence with one of the country's leading Shakespearean actors about the relative merits of different plays and speeches in Shakespeare's dramatic oeuvre. In no speech is the self-educated Lincoln's close attention to the Bard more in evidence than in his political comeback speech, the Peoria Address denouncing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. What do the veiled Shakespearean references in that speech reveal about Lincoln and the crisis that slavery posed to free government?


Abraham Lincoln's Peoria Speech: https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/peoriaspeech.htm


Ted J. Richards's Lincoln and Shakespeare at Peoria: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10457097.2021.1983355?journalCode=vpps20


Lewis E. Lehrman's Lincoln at Peoria: https://amzn.to/3WXKW6p


Lord Charnwood's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography: https://amzn.to/3wXmTdw


Folger Shakespeare Library's Hamlet: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780743477123


Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69379/an-essay-on-criticism


Harry Jaffa's Crisis of the House Divided: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780226391182


Harry Jaffa's A New Birth of Freedom: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781538114322


John Channing Briggs's Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered: https://amzn.to/3xnDyqV


Diana Schaub's His Greatest Speeches: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781250763457


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When Romulus dies, the city of Rome is riven by ethnic conflict between Romans and Sabines, and class conflict between senators and plebeians. The city cannot agree on its next king; an interregnum ensues. The stalemate is eventually resolved in favor of Numa Pompilius, who is crowned king of Rome in a mysterious, mystical ceremony which almost seems like a human sacrifice. This is the fourth episode of "No Republic Was Ever Greater," a podcast series examining the rise of the Roman Empire through the work of Livy and Machiavelli. 

Livy's Ab Urbe Condita: https://amzn.to/3gYwtbh
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: https://amzn.to/3NtNBSj
René Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780804722155
Plato's Republic: https://amzn.to/3H2XOU1
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John Milton's clarion call to educators to "repair the ruins of our first parents" has inspired countless teachers and parents in the classical education movement and beyond. But is Milton really the classical education ally he appears to be? In "On Education" he pays lip service to grammar, logic, and rhetoric - the three components of the Trivium - but he also disparages scholasticism, ignores metaphysics, and deplores medieval education. Join Jonathan and Ryan as they discuss Milton's education manifesto.


Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO


John Milton's Of Education: https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/of_education/text.shtml


Johann Heinrich Alsted's Loci Communes: https://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vd17/content/titleinfo/5175418


Jan Comenius' Orbis Pictus: https://amzn.to/3vQb08A


Hans H. Ørberg's Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: https://amzn.to/3hoLz7V


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Giambattista Vico was a Renaissance Man after the Renaissance, but he was largely forgotten for centuries. As a professor of rhetoric, he often had the occasion to speak and write about the education of the young. We take a look at some of his orations on the topic, which are a mine of profound insight. Vico has some complaints that will sound very familiar, like, "Parents all just want their kids to become lawyers or doctors and get rich."


Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO


New Humanists episode on A.G. Sertillanges: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/me-an-intellectual-episode-xxvi/id1570296135?i=1000568461907


New Humanists episode on Donald Phillip Verene: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-humane-education-episode-iv/id1570296135?i=1000529006912


Donald Phillip Verene's History of Philosophy: https://amzn.to/3HK7zYa


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