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Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Hannibal

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09.09.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Patrick Hunt, author of the book Hannibal.  Patrick  Hunt is an archeologist, historian, biographer, and Fellow at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Roman Occupation of Britain and Queen Boudica’s Rebellion

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09.08.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Adrian Goldsworthy is an award-winning historian of ancient Rome. He is the author of the several books including Caesar, How Rome Fell, Pax Romana, Augustus, and his latest Hadrian’s Wall.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Politics of Jesus and the Roman Occupation of Palestine

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09.07.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Reza Aslan, Iranian-American writer, scholar of religions, and professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside on his book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. 

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

A History of God

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09.06.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Reza Aslan is a religion scholar and a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside. His newest book is God: A Human History

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

A History of Violence and Religion

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09.05.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Karen Armstrong, a former Roman Catholic nun and British commentator and author known for her numerous books on comparative religion. Her latest is Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Heretic

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09.04.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age and her latest, Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Judas Iscariot

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09.03.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Peter Stanford, a British writer, editor, journalist and presenter, known for his biographies and writings on religion and ethics. His most recent book is Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

The Origins of the Judeo Christian Religion

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09.02.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Philip Jenkins, author of Crucible of Faith: The Ancient Revolution That Made Our Modern Religious World.

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

A History of Racist Ideas

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09.01.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Lucretius and On The Nature of Things

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08.31.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.  He is the author of many books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

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