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New Humanists Ancient Language Institute
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Join the hosts of New Humanists and founders of the Ancient Language Institute, Jonathan Roberts and Ryan Hammill, on their quest to discover what a renewed humanism looks like for the modern world. The Ancient Language Institute is an online language school and think tank, dedicated to changing the way ancient languages are taught.
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Compassion Versus Classical Antiquity | Episode LVII
In The Greek State, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that the Greek polis existed in order to hold the many in slavery so that the Olympian few could give birth to the beautiful Helen known as Greek culture, and that the Greek state had to be periodically renewed by war so that it could continue to create geniuses. This, he says, is the esoteric meaning behind Plato's Republic. Jonathan and Ryan take a look at this "preface to an unwritten book" and examine the ethical, metaphysical, and historical implications of Nietzsche's argument.
Friedrich Nietzsche's The Greek State: https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Nietzsche-Greek-State-text.pdf
Jacob Burkhardt's The Greeks and Greek Civilization: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780312244477
C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780060652920
T.S. Eliot's Vergil and the Christian World: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27538181
Jacob Burkhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy: https://amzn.to/49RKXk1
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Nietzsche, Homer, and Cruelty | Episode LVI
Why was it that the Greeks, the most humane of all peoples, also possessed such a tigerish lust for blood? Why did the Greeks so delight in Homer's depiction of cruelty and death in the Iliad? That is the question animating Friedrich Nietzsche's preface to an unwritten book, "Homer's Contest." Nietzsche turns to the dark Hellenic past, the "womb of Homer" for an explanation, and finds it in Strife, the double-souled goddess lauded by Hesiod.
Friedrich Nietzsche's Homer's Contest: http://www.northamericannietzschesociety.com/uploads/7/3/2/5/73251013/nietzscheana5.pdf
Lee Fratantuono's Madness Unchained: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780739122426
Robin Lane Fox's Homer and His Iliad: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781541600447
Hesiod's Theogony, Works and Days: https://amzn.to/467Nh3l
Dan Carlin's Death Throes of the Republic: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-death-throes-of-the-republic-series/
C.S. Lewis's Surprised by Joy: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780062565433
Jacob Burkhardt's The Greeks and Greek Civilization: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780312244477
René Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780804722155
New Humanists episode on Simone Weil's "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-iliad-or-the-poem-of-force-episode-xxi/id1570296135?i=1000557727910
New Humanists is brought to you by the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/
Links may have referral codes, which earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. We encourage you, when possible, to use Bookshop.org for your book purchases, an online bookstore which supports local bookstores.
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The Mirror for Princes | Episode LV
Thomas Elyot wrote "The Boke named the Governour," the first book about education written in the English language, an outstanding example in the crowded field of Renaissance-era mirrors for princes. The mirrors for princes were works designed to instruct and train future kings, nobles, and leading men. Machiavelli and Erasmus wrote famous mirrors for princes, but what does the English tradition of this genre have to show us?
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Thomas Elyot's The Boke named The Governour: https://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/gov/gov1.htm
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780199535699
Desiderius Erasmus' The Education of a Christian Prince: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780521588119
Niccolo Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: https://amzn.to/463xl2y
Plutarch's Parallel Lives (inc. Lycurgus): https://amzn.to/3YbAPxk
New Humanists is brought to you by the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/
Links may have referral codes, which earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. We encourage you, when possible, to use Bookshop.org for your book purchases, an online bookstore which supports local bookstores.
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Martin Luther for Public Schools (or, Don't Be an Ostrich) | Episode LIV
"Simple necessity has forced men, even among the heathen, to maintain pedagogues and schoomasters if their nation was to be brought to a high standard." In his address "To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany," Martin Luther exhorts Germany's civic leaders to establish public schools for the education of all German children. Foremost among his priorities in his proposed educational program is instruction in ancient languages, something that, according to Luther, Satan wants to suppress. We dive into German education, ancient language instruction, and the eternal debate over public schools versus homeschooling.
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Plutarch's Parallel Lives (inc. Numa and Lycurgus): https://amzn.to/3YbAPxk
Andrew Cuff's Marcus Aurelius, Uncensored: https://beckandstone.com/created/marcus-aurelius-uncensored
New Humanists is brought to you by the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/
Links may have referral codes, which earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. We encourage you, when possible, to use Bookshop.org for your book purchases, an online bookstore which supports local bookstores.
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Only the Weak Desire a Quiet Life | Episode LIII
Ulrich Zwingli was one of the towering figures of the Reformation, a committed humanist, and a warrior who ultimately fell in battle. He despised the idea that Christianity could render men passive, and in a short treatise from 1523 to a young nobleman, he sketches the outlines of his ideal education for the creature called man: "We are set between the hammer and the anvil, half beast and half angel."
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Davenant Institute Ad Fontes podcast on Zwingli: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zwingli-we-hardly-knew-ye/id1557560666?i=1000545490988
Bruce Gordon's Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet: https://amzn.to/43zIOVN
New Humanists episode on T.S. Eliot's Notes Towards the Definition of Culture: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t-s-eliots-praise-for-privilege-episode-xvi/id1570296135?i=1000549689865
New Humanists is brought to you by the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/
Links may have referral codes, which earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. We encourage you, when possible, to use Bookshop.org for your book purchases, an online bookstore which supports local bookstores.
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Return of the Old Gods in Germany | Episode LII
In the opening lecture of his course on Homer, the Professor of Greek at the University of Wittenberg, Phillip Melanchthon, first invokes the aid of the gods and declares that to Homer belongs "the highest and noblest place." Further, Melanchthon proclaims that Homer "alone snatches away the palm of victory from all poets that any age has brought forth, and he leaves them all far behind." Jonathan and Ryan take a look at Melanchthon's encomium for Homer and defense against the many varieties of Homeric critics, both ancient and modern.
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781107604704
Homer's Iliad (Greek-English): https://amzn.to/3O2sBEd
Homer's Odyssey (Greek-English): https://amzn.to/46DbOPe
New Humanists Episode on T.S. Eliot's Vergil and Christian World: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/was-virgil-divinely-inspired-episode-xxxiii/id1570296135?i=1000582748821
Daoiri Farrell's The Valley of Knockanure: https://youtu.be/lu-FG92a9Cw
New Humanists Episode on Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-iliad-or-the-poem-of-force-episode-xxi/id1570296135?i=1000557727910
Herodotus' The Histories: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781400031146
Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta Oratio: https://amzn.to/3JS7y4D
New Humanists is brought to you by the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/
Links may have referral codes, which earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. We encourage you, when possible, to use Bookshop.org for your book purchases, an online bookstore which supports local bookstores.
Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
Customer Reviews
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Excellent conversations to listen to. As an educator, provides excellent perspective that has helped to form the way I view my students and my own role within the classroom.
Inspiration and Perspective
These guys are having a great conversation and inviting us into it. I particularly enjoyed the Voegelin episode as it reminded me to go back and read not just the original voices, but those who have helped hand on the tradition and understood it well in a context closer to my own. This podcast would help anyone who teaches, or still considers himself a student of, the Classical outlook on the world. Additionally, you could learn Latin or Greek from these guys too, in a legitimate method where you would imbibe the culture and the language together rather than amassing grammatical facts and charts to wield in parsing a sentence (and your own intellect) to death.
Bevis and Buthead
These are the original guys on the couch but instead of mind numbing mtv they are tuned into the true muse of philosophy in search of a recovery of philology.
Best lang oriented podcast online.
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