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Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Reading Gilgamesh Part I

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03.09.23

By Mitch Jeserich

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Reading Gilgamesh Part II

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03.09.23

By Mitch Jeserich

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Reading Gilgamesh Part III

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03.09.23

By Mitch Jeserich

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Reading Gilgamesh Part IV

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03.09.23

By Mitch Jeserich

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Birth of Civilization

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09.21.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: James C. Scott is the author of Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest State and the Sterling Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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09.20.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Kent H. Dixon is a translator, a writer, and Emeritus Professor of English, at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Translated into English and presented as a graphic novel, this version of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH is a father/son project by scholar and translator Kent H. Dixon and his son, the comix artist Kevin H. Dixon, who bring a fresh … Continued

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Odyssey

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09.19.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  She is the first woman who translated the ancient Greek epic story, The Odyssey by Homer, into the English language.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The History of Money

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09.19.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Jack Weatherford is the author of the book The History of Money.  He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, and The History of Money, … Continued

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Milman Parry: The Man Who Killed Homer

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09.19.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Robert Kanigel is Professor Emeritus of Science Writing at MIT and the author of several books for which he has received many awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEH “Public Scholar” grant.  His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; … Continued

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Ancient Athenian Democracy

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09.18.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus at the University of Cambridge.  He is the author of Democracy: A Life.

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