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EPITOME - Episode 24 - Fables of Aesop - Part 1

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August 02, 2017

The first installment of selections of the popular brief wisdom tales (featuring talking beasts) of the legendary fabulist, Aesop.

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EPITOME - Episode 15 - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

July 02, 2017

Poet and Visionary William Blake's radical portrayal of the ideas pervading and governing the infernal realm.

Episode 72 - Aphrodite & Ares - Homer

July 08, 2018

The story sung by Demodocus, singer of the court of Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians, hosts of Odysseus after his raft washes ashore on the island of S cherie. How Aphrodite, goddess of love, cheated on her husband, Hephaestus, the gods' smithy, with Ares, god of war.

Episode 78 - The Art of Worldly Wisdom - Part 2

August 19, 2018

More aphorisms and commentary from Balthasar Gracián, the 17th century Spanish Jesuit philosopher, offering counsel on surviving and thriving in the life of the court and society in general.