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Ancient Greek and Roman Science – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 79

December 14, 2023The Very Short Introductions Podcastancient greece, ancient greek science, ancient roman science, ancient rome, aristotle, Erwin Schrödinger, Heraclitus, hesiod, history of science, homer, liba taub, Lucretius, nature, On the Nature of Things, plato, pre-Socratic philosophers, socrates, thales of miletus, the very short introductions podcast, vsi, Werner Heisenbergoxfordacademic

In the last episode of Season 7, Liba Taub introduces the science of ancient Greece and Rome and details the link between poetry, philosophy, and science.

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Liba Taub is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

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Democracy – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 76

November 16, 2023The Very Short Introductions Podcastancient greece, aristotle, democracy, democratic government, democratic society, humanism, john stuart mill, mob rule, naomi zack, the very short introductions podcast, vsioxfordacademic

In this episode, Naomi Zack introduces democracy and the challenges posed against such a foundational part of our lives in the 21st century.

A PDF transcript for this episode can be found here: https://oxfordacademic.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/VSI-Ep-76-Democracy-transcript.pdf

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Naomi Zack is Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY. Her recent books include The American Tragedy of COVID-19: Social and Political Crises of 2020 (2021) and Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government (2020).

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the next episode of The Very Short Introductions Podcast will premiere on Thursday, 30 November 2023.

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Alexander the Great – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 50

May 26, 2022The Very Short Introductions Podcastalexander the great, ancient greece, hugh bowden, macedonia, macedonian empire, phillip ii, the very short introductions podcastoxfordacademic

In this episode, Hugh Bowden introduces Alexander the Great, a legendary figure whose legacy permeates modern culture but about whom we still have much to discover.

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Hugh Bowden is is Professor of Ancient History at King’s College London. He is an internationally recognised expert on Alexander the Great, and also on religious experience in the Greek world. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Ancient Mystery Cults (*OUP). His books include Mystery Cults in the Ancient World (2010), and Classical Athens & the Delphic Oracle: Divination and Democracy (2005). He has also published many articles and book chapters on ancient Greek religion and on Alexander the Great.

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Ancient Greece – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 1

October 12, 2020The Very Short Introductions Podcastancient greece, greek history, oup, paul cartledge, the very short introductions podcast, very short introductions, vsi, vsi25oxfordacademic

In this episode, Paul Cartledge introduces Ancient Greece, a period of unmatched influence on the politics, philosophy, religion, and social relations of Western civilization.

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Paul Cartledge is the inaugural A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.

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