All Episodes

65 From Vengeance to Justice: The Genius of Aeschylus' ORESTEIA w/ Doug Metzger

64 Plato's Republic: Full Summary and Explanation w/ Gina White

63 The Spartan Strategy for Acquiring and Wielding Power w/ Eric Robinson

62 Marcus Aurelius and the Kingdom of Gold w/ Judith Stove

Announcements: Next Tour, Seeking Video Editor, Connect on Social Media, Patreon update

61 Who is Lantern Jack? (Doug Interviews Me)

60 The Rise of Athens (Themistocles and the Persian Wars, Part 3)

59 The Ancient Novels w/ Doug Metzger (Apuleius, Lucian, Chariton, Heliodorus, Petronius, Achilles Tatius)

58 What Did the World's First Pop Star Sound like? | Euripides and Ancient Music w/ Claire Catenaccio

57 The Life of Plato w/ Robin Waterfield

56 The Man Who Defeated the Persian Empire (Themistocles and the Persian Wars, Part 2)

55 Fire in the Cradle of Democracy (The Persian Wars, Part 1)

AGD "Persian Wars" Tour in Greece! Jan. 3-11, 2025

54 Were the Spartans Proto-Fascist Losers? w/ Bret Devereaux

53 Why Platonism and Stoicism Are Going Viral w/ John Vervaeke

"Enemies of Athens" Tour Announcement Oct. 11-19, 2023

52 A New Theory of Democracy's Origins (It Wasn't Greece) w/ David Stasavage

51 Anacyclosis – Polybius' Grand Unified Theory of History

Announcing the "Mountains and Oracles" Tour in Greece! Jan. 3-11

R8 Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny? | Plato's Republic, book 8

49 When a Philosopher Ruled the World | Marcus Aurelius w/ Donald Robertson

AGD Tour Update – Only a Few Spots Left!

48 Time Traveling to the Ancient World

R7.5 The Forms, the Matrix, and AI w/ John Vervaeke

AGD Trip to Greece! August 16–24

R7 The Cave | Plato's Republic, book 7 w/ Ben Morison

R6.5 Why People Hate Plato

44 The Invention of Duty

R6 The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful | Plato's Republic, book 6 w/ Gabriel Richardson Lear

42 The Hittite-Homer Connection? w/ Mary Bachvarova

R5 Philosopher Queens | Plato's Republic, book 5 w/ Mary Townsend

R4.5 Anatomy of the Soul | Plato's Republic, book 4 w/ Jonathan Lear

R4 Hogwarts and Kallipolis | Plato's Republic, book 4

38 Alexander the Great: Inherited Glory w/ Adrian Goldsworthy

R3.5 Food for the Soul | Plato's Republic, book 3 w/ Angie Hobbs (pt. 2)

R3 Who Guards the Guardians? | Plato's Republic, book 3 w/ Angie Hobbs

35 Stoic Duty: The Formula for Living Well

R2.5 The Justice Loophole | Plato's Republic, book 2 w/ Rachel Barney

R2 All Men Would Be Tyrants | Plato's Republic, book 2

R1 The Hunt for Justice | Plato's Republic, book 1

R0 Plato's Republic, or: How to Stop a Civil War

30 Rome's Most Lethal Weapon w/ Steele Brand

29 Penelope: Weaver of Fate w/ Olga Levaniouk

28 Thucydides: A Historian for Our Time? w/ Emily Greenwood

27 Oligarchy, Part 2: Nemesis w/ Matt Simonton

26 Oligarchy, Part 1: Genesis w/ Matt Simonton

25 The Origins of Philosophy w/ André Laks (Presocratics, Parmenides, Heraclitus)

24 A History of Inequality w/ Walter Scheidel

23 Greek Religion and Its Discontents w/ Barbara Graziosi

22 Rome's Lost Epics w/ Rhiannon Evans (Ennius, Gnaeus Naevius)

21 How to Succeed in the Iron Age w/ Alicia Stallings

20 How Democracies Fall Apart w/ Melissa Lane (stasis, Thucydides, Plato)

19 America's Greco-Roman Legacies w/ Caroline Winterer

18 A History of Epic w/ Gregory Nagy and Leonard Muellner (Homer, Iliad, Gilgamesh)

17 Platonic Love w/ Zina Giannopoulou (Plato's Symposium)

16 Dialogue and Dialectic w/ MM McCabe (Philosophy, Plato, Socrates)

15 Homer's Meta-Odyssey w/ Richard Martin

14 Did Aristotle Hold Science Back 2000 Years? w/ Peter Adamson

13 Decoding Atlantis w/ Mark Adams (Plato, Timaeus, Critias)

12 The Comedy of Democracy w/ Edith Hall (Aristophanes)

11 Caves and Classrooms w/ Raffaella Cribiore

10 Hannibal Takes On Rome w/ Patrick Hunt (Carthage, Polybius, Livy)

09 The World's Oldest Computer w/ Xenophon Moussas (Antikythera Mechanism)

08 Plato Strikes Back! w/ Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

07 The Persian Wars w/ Ian Morris (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon)

06 What Is Greek Tragedy? w/ Rush Rehm (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides)

05 Democracy and Demagogues in Ancient Athens w/ Josiah Ober

04 Sappho: The Tenth Muse w/ Andromache Karanika

03 Dying For Immortality in Homer's Iliad w/ Andrew Ford

02 Bronze Age Apocalypse 1177BC w/ Eric Cline

01 Tomb Raiders, Codebreakers, and the Discovery of Antiquity (Rosetta Stone, Cuneiform, Linear B)

00 Introduction