All Episodes

Episode 47 - The Book of Job, Part 2 – I Come Out as Gold

Episode 46 - The Book of Job, Part 1 - That Man Was Upright and Perfect

Episode 45: The Mahabharata, Part 2 – The Bhagavad Gita

Episode 44: The Mahabharata, Part 1 - Sacred and Marvelous Tales

Episode 43: Valmiki, The Ramayana, Part 2 - By Means of Every Sacred Rite

Episode 42: Valmiki, The Ramayana, Part 1 - Tiger Among Men

Episode 41 – Plato, The Republic, Part 3 – I Completely Agree, Socrates

Episode 40 – Plato, The Republic, Part 2 – Out of the Cave

Episode 39 – Plato, The Republic, Part 1 – The Education of Our Heroes

Episode 38 - Aristophanes, Frogs, Part 2 – Criminally Funny?

Episode 37 - Aristophanes, Frogs, Part 1 – You Idiots Listening Now

Episode 36: Euripides, The Trojan Women, Part 2 - I Was One of Those Girls

Episode 35 – Euripides, Trojan Women, Part 1 – This Counts As Music

Episode 34: Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Part 2 – The Soil Your Father Sowed

Episode 33 - Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Part 1: The Future Will Come of Itself

Episode 32 – The Art of War, Part 2: An Ex-Jesuit in Beijing

Episode 31 – The Art of War, Part 1: A Way of Deception

Episode 30: Herodotus, The Histories, Part 2 - Children of History

Episode 29 – Herodotus, The Histories, Part 1, Part 2: Father of Lies

Episode 28: Herodotus, The Histories Part 1 (Part 1) - Father of History

Episode 27: The Oresteia, Part 2 - Deus Ex Machina

Episode 26: The Oresteia, Part 1 - Torment Bred in the Race

Episode 25: The Book of Isaiah, Part 2 - Wizards That Peep and Mutter

Episode 24: The Book of Isaiah, Part 1 - A Voice in the Wilderness

Episode 23 – Aesop’s Fables, Part 2: The Moral of the Story

Announcements: Schedule Change for Episode 23

Episode 22: Aesop's Fables, Part 1 - Slow and Steady

Episode 21: The Analects of Confucius, Part 2 - The Confucian World

Episode 20: Analects of Confucius, Part 1 - When I Was 40, I Had No Delusions

Episode 19: Sappho - The Tenth Muse

Episode 18: The Upanishads, Part 2 - Dionysus, Son of Indus

Episode 17: The Upanishads, Part 1 – By Wisdom and By Toil

Episode 16: Theogony and Works and Days, Part 2 – Immortals Who Are Forever

Episode 15: Theogony and Works and Days, Part 1 – Ask an Ancient Greek Farmer

Episode 14: Exodus and Genesis, Part 2 – A Posterity in the Earth

Episode 13: Exodus and Genesis, Part 1 – The Gold of That Land Was Good

Episode 12: The Odyssey, Part 2 - Unto a Savage Race

Episode 11: The Odyssey, Part 1 – Nobody Was His Name

Episode 10: The Iliad Part 2 – The Blind Poets Department

Episode 9: The Iliad, Part 1 – We Wretched Mortals

Episode 8 Transcript: The Rig Veda, Part 2 – Painters, Not Photographers

The Rig Veda, Part 1 – Breathed by Its Own Nature

Episode Six: The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Part 2 - The Egyptologist and the Magicians

The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Part 1 – This Thing Reads Like Stereo Instructions

The Tale of Sinuhe – Out of the Sands, a Voice

The Tale of Sinuhe – The Traveler in an Antique Land

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Part 2: The Library, the Museum, and the Lawsuit

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Part 1: Epic Fail

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