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Episode 42 - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Part 1

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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.

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EPITOME - Episode 15 - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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

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Episode 67 - The Philosophy of Epicurus

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