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Episode 69 - On Clothing by Henry David Thoreau

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June 17, 2018

An excerpt from the chapter, "Economy," in Walden by Henry David Thoreau, where the philosopher expounds his thoughts on simple accoutrements.

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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 67 - The Philosophy of Epicurus

June 03, 2018

This gentle ancient Greek philosopher lived a life of celibacy and temperance and taught that reason was to be used to enable people to judge with certainty what is to be chosen, and what to be avoided, to preserve themselves free from pain, and to secure health of body, and tranquillity of mind.