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The Western Traditions Podcast

Robert Paxton

A podcast, in twelve series, about the history of western culture and traditions.

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33:25

Episode II.24 - The Peloponnesian War III: To the...

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2024/02/16

The Spartans surrender at Pylos The rise and fall of Brasidas and Cleon. The Peace of Nicias.

56:15

Episode II.23 - Greek Philosophy I: The Pre-Socratics

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2024/02/09

All is the one. All is a perfect sphere of being and we are all a part of this One, as is all matter and all time and thought and sensation. All is the One, whom forever exists, born from out of eternity, changeless and infinite.

34:02

Episode IX.02 - The Technological Singularity I

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2024/02/04

From the card catalog at the University of Arizona library to the apocalypse of the human race. The introduction to the Technological Singularity.

37:53

Episode II.22 - The Peloponnesian War II - To the...

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2024/01/24

Everywhere treachery, bloodshed, fury and destruction.

35:23

Episode II.21 - Greek Drama II: Sophocles and Euripides

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2024/01/18

The playwrights Sophocles and Euripides. Focus of tragedy on the Trojan War and Heracles. The role of women in Greek tragedy. A review of Medea, a play by Euripides. The catharsis of Greek tragedy and its impact on Western Civilization.

50:09

Episode II.19 - Greek Drama I

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2024/01/10

Greek drama. Aeschylus and some of his plays: Agamemnon, The Persians and Prometheus Bound.

47:45

Episode II.20 - The Peloponnesian War I - To the...

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2024/01/10

It begins at Epidamnus but only after conflicts at Potidaea and Plataea are all the cities of Greece brought into general warfare. The Plague of Athens. Pericles’ Funeral Oration. The death of Pericles.

25:27

Episode IX.01 - Introduction to the Western...

The Western Traditions Podcast ·

2023/12/22

The meta-series of the western traditions podcast. Here we take a look at issues both from the past, and those that await us in the human future. Topics include things like: the technological singularity, gender issues, UFOs and aliens, Universal Basic Income and many more.

52:59

Episode II.18 - The Athenian Empire

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2023/11/09

The Greek counterattack begins. Athens and her allies form the Delian league. The power struggles of Xanthippus, Pausanias, Themistocles, Cimon, and Pericles.

48:51

Episode II.17 - The Persian War IV: The Battle of...

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2023/10/05

The final episode of the Persian War. The Athenians and the Spartans defeat the Persian invaders. Victory in Europe!

45:43

Episode II.16 - The Persian War III: The Battle of...

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2023/09/12

The Greek fleet makes a last stand at sea against the Persian armada. The rise of Themistocles and Aristides. Xerxes flees Greece and leaves a garrison under Mardonius in Europe.

01:01:35

Episode II.15 - The Persian War II : Thermopylae

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2023/08/30

Xerxes comes to power in Persia. A huge army invades Greece. Themistocles rallies the Athenians. The Greek allies stand at Thermopylae. Leonidas and the 300 fall in battle.

59:44

Episode II.14 - The Persian War I - The Battle of...

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2023/08/18

The Persian War begins. The Histories of Herodotus. The Battle of Marathon. Darius and Miltiades.

45:04

Episode II.13 - Magna Graecia

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2023/07/14

The many lands of the ancient Greeks. Mystery religions, Greek sexuality and the hoplite warrior.

55:15

Episode II.12 - Athens

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2023/06/09

From Theseus to Solon and Pisistratus, the complex, chaotic history of Athens unfolds. Prelude to the Persian War.

47:35

Episode II.11 - Sparta

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2023/05/17

Plutarch’s essay on Lycurgus. Laconia and Lacedaemon. The Spartans, their government, their lives, their army. Leonidas, Gorgo and Thermopylae.

38:08

Episode II.10 - Introduction to the Second Unit:...

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2023/04/05

The Greek polis or city-state. The city of Thebes and the tragedy of Oedipus. The value of the state and the importance of politics in classical Greece.

47:42

Episode II.09 - The Greek Dark Ages

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2023/03/18

Life in Greece after the Bronze Age Collapse. Homer and Hesiod. The mystery religions.

01:26:29

Episode II.08 - The Odyssey

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2023/02/23

Homer’s second great epic poem about the long-delayed return of Odysseus from the Trojan War.

01:28:25

Episode II.07 - The Iliad

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2022/12/16

Homer’s great epic poem about the rage of Achilles outside the walls of Troy.

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