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Dec 16, 2021

Virgil's Fourth Eclogue - A Pagan Poet's Prophecy of Christ?

“And art thou then that Virgil, that well-spring, from which such copious floods of eloquence have issued? Glory and light of all the...

Daniel Ethan Finneran

Dec 1, 2021

Sappho - The "Poetess"

Homer, undisputed father of the western literary canon, immortal bard by whose epic imagination the soil of European culture was seeded,...

Daniel Ethan Finneran

Nov 4, 2021

Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War - Preface to Podcast

Every man, in the opinion of the great English Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is born either an Aristotelian or a Platonist. For...

Daniel Ethan Finneran

Oct 13, 2021

Suetonius - Lives Of The Caesars - Preface To Podcast

I can think of no other subject more deserving of the historian’s efforts, nor gratifying to the reader’s curiosity, than the Roman...

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Virgil's Fourth Eclogue - A Pagan Poet's Prophecy of Christ?

Sappho - The "Poetess"

Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War - Preface to Podcast

Suetonius - Lives Of The Caesars - Preface To Podcast

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