Search This Blog

Epitome

Episode 42 - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Part 1

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

December 10, 2017

Selections from the 5th edition of Edward FitzGerald's classic translation of the rubais, or quatrains, of the Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, Omar Khayyam.

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

Episode 64 - Love Sonnets II - Shakespeare

May 13, 2018

A second set of five sonnets on Love by William Shakespeare, in celebration of Mother's Day. Music: A madrigal, Amor mi sprona (bassoon & choir) by Alfonso Ferrabosco, Sr. Performed by Robert Rønnes.

Episode 75 - Cultivating Peace

July 29, 2018

A handful of maxims whose practice can bring quietude and tranquillity to life.

Episode 73 - An Adventure in India - Voltaire

July 22, 2018

Greek philosopher Pythagoras, while sojourning in India, encounters an herb, an oyster, and a mob of Hindus bent on burning two men at the stakes for the perceived heresies of questioning religious traditional wisdom.