The Endless Knot

Mark Sundaram & Aven McMaster
The Endless Knot

Aven & Mark discuss etymology, history, literature, language, and cocktails, and the sometimes surprising connections between them all.

  1. 17/12/2024

    Words Christmas Gave Us, with Grace Tierney

    Grace Tierney is back with another great book about the word origins, this time “Words Christmas Gave Us"! She regales us with festive stories and we talk about some of the fun traditions and treats of the winter holidays. It’s been a long, unintended break since our last episode, but we’re happy to be back at it, in time to wish everyone very happy holidays!

    1 h 18 min

  2. 01/05/2024

    Says Who, with Anne Curzan

    We spoke with Dr. Anne Curzan about her new book, “Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words”. We talk about language change, inner grammandos, the benefits of learning the rules of texting from one’s students, and of course, surprising connections!

    1 h 1 min

  3. 31/03/2024

    The Vesuvius Challenge, with Stephen Parsons

    Buried deep under volcanic ash lie hundreds of burnt scrolls containing texts from the first century. A new project is driving the work to try to read these chunks of carbon, to uncover new works and open new doors into the past. We spoke to one of the leaders of this project, Dr. Stephen Parsons, about the Vesuvius Challenge, the technical aspects of ‘virtual unrolling’, the possibilities of new classical texts, the development of new ways of doing scholarship, and more.

    1 h 11 min

  4. 29/02/2024

    Swimming in History, with Karen Carr

    We talked to Dr. Karen Carr about the global history of swimming — in myth, folktale, and history. Who swam, who didn’t, and how do the stories different cultures told reflect these patterns? We also talked a bit about Dr. Carr’s next book, all about silver, women, and textiles.

    59 min

  5. 31/01/2024

    An Ecological Chain

    We discuss the language and history of the ecological sciences, all the way back to the ancient Greeks, and the development of the food chain and food web models of ecological systems. And apologies for the unscheduled hiatus!

    1 h 35 min

  6. 31/08/2023

    A Brief History of Misogyny

    We talk to Melanie Racette-Campbell about her new book, “The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus”, and discuss why Roman elite men were particularly vulnerable to a societal transformation that changed their role in the state. What did it mean to be a good man in ancient Rome, and how and why did that change? Melanie’s book is available here Transcript of this episode This episode on YouTube Our Patreon page Redbubble store This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License The Endless Knot RSS

    1 h 21 min

  7. 04/07/2023

    A Brief History of Misogyny

    The word “chauvinism” is an unlikely eponym, but it turns out that the story behind it has all sorts of interesting connections. And our discussion of those connections also leads us into the long history of misogyny in the western world, from Eve and Pandora to the Virgin Mary, courtly love, and Victorian womanhood. Cocktail: Pandora’s Jar, from Nectar of the Gods “By Jingo” song Hesiod’s Works and Days Hesiod’s Theogony Semonides 7 Transcript of this episode This episode on YouTube Our Patreon page Redbubble store This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License The Endless Knot RSS

    1 h 21 min

  8. 30/05/2023

    A Quiverful of Time Arrows

    We look at the history of English’s conceptualization of time, and update Mark’s research on spatiotemporal metaphor. Also, words for arrows, the surprising origin of ‘toxic’, and a bit of Latin poetry! Blue Arrow cocktail Bow and Arrow cocktail Transcript of this episode This episode on YouTube Our Patreon page Redbubble store This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License The Endless Knot RSS

    1 h 25 min
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Aven & Mark discuss etymology, history, literature, language, and cocktails, and the sometimes surprising connections between them all.

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  • Création
    Mark Sundaram & Aven McMaster
  • Années d’activité
    2015 - 2024
  • Épisodes
    133
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    © Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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