Democracy’s Creation Story: The Tyrannicides and Other Tales
Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection
Democracy was born out of class struggle.
Democracy’s Excess: Empire, The Massacre of Melos, and The Trial of Socrates.
Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
Guest: James C. Scott is the author of Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest State and the Sterling Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.
Guest: Kent H. Dixon is a translator, a writer, and Emeritus Professor of English, at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Translated into English and presented as a graphic novel, this version of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH is a father/son project by scholar and translator Kent H. Dixon and his son, the comix artist Kevin H. Dixon, who bring a fresh … Continued
Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the first woman who translated the ancient Greek epic story, The Odyssey by Homer, into the English language.