Alexander Schmid Podcast

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Sinopsis

In this podcast we will consider Great Books of the Western Canon, interviews with Great Books educators, and intellectual issues of present and perennial import

Episodios

  • Episodes 025/026: Iliad Bk VII

    11/02/2018 Duración: 38min

    In this episode, we cover Book VII of Hektor's "Iliad". We watch (a) the negotiations of the gods, (b) one-on-one combat between Aias the Greater and Hektor, and (c) the crooked negotiations of the Achaians. We then take a few minutes to analyze the (a) bronze on Aias' shield, (b) Agamemnon's improving leadership, and (c) how betrayal begets dishonesty. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 025: Iliad Bk VII

    10/02/2018 Duración: 30min

    In this episode, we cover Book VII of Hektor's "Iliad". We watch (a) the negotiations of the gods, (b) one-on-one combat between Aias the Greater and Hektor, and (c) the crooked negotiations of the Achaians. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 024: Conversation III

    09/02/2018 Duración: 56min

    In this episode, Wes and I consider value systems ancient and modern, the degeneration of modern notions of truth, and the inability of Postmodernists to put their claims into rational arguments. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 023: Iliad Bk VI

    09/02/2018 Duración: 34min

    In this episode, we observe (a) a cruel moment with Agamemnon, (b) an odd exchange between Diomedes and Glaukos, and (c) Hektor's final trip to Troy (Ilion). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 022: Iliad Bk V Pt 2

    08/02/2018 Duración: 30min

    In this episode, we racpitulate Pandaros' death, the relationship between Athene and Diomedes, and the gods and men in general. What exactly is the relationship between the men and the gods? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 021: Conversation II

    03/02/2018 Duración: 01h08min

    In Episode 021, Mr. Wesley Schantz and I consider broad connections between the Iliad of Homer, the Divine Comedy of Dante, contemporary psychology, and the causes of the Trojan War. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 020: Iliad Bk V Pt 1

    02/02/2018 Duración: 22min

    In Episode 020 we consider the first part of Homer's "Iliad" Bk 5. We consider (a) Diomedes' interaction with Athene: god vision received; (b) the battle between Diomedes and Pandaros/Aineias, and (c) Aphrodite's removal from the battlefield. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 019: Iliad Bk 4 Pt 2

    01/02/2018 Duración: 40min

    In Episode 019, we discuss Homer's "Iliad" Bk IV Pt 2. We discuss Agamemnon's dressing down of the troops, the comparisons of Achaians army to the Trojans, and an explanation of the differences between Athene and Ares. The battle begins. The heroes get kills. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 016: Conversation

    29/01/2018 Duración: 51min

    In Episode 016, Mr. Wes Schantz and I discuss an array of topics: Being, Meaning, Purpose, Vocation, Education, and Jordan B. Peterson vs. Postmodernism. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 016: Conversation

    29/01/2018 Duración: 05min

    In Episode 016, Mr. Wesley Schantz and I cover an array of topics: meaning, purpose, vocation, and Jordan B. Peterson vs. Postmodernism --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 018: Iliad Bk IV Pt 1

    28/01/2018 Duración: 31min

    In this episode we observe Homer's Iliad Book IV and particularly (1) the grim agreement between Zeus and Hera, (2) the tricking of Pandaros, (3) and the shooting of Menelaos and its fallout. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 017: Addenda

    27/01/2018 Duración: 14min

    In Episode 017, we correct the Adam and Eve interpretation and explain the terms (a) levels of abstraction and (b) differing levels of analysis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 016: Conversation

    27/01/2018 Duración: 05min

    In Episode 016, Mr. Wesley Schantz and I cover a wide array of topics: Being, Meaning, Purpose, and Jordan B. Peterson vs. Postmodernism. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 015: Iliad Bk III Pt 3

    26/01/2018 Duración: 39min

    In this episode, we consider the one-on-one combat between Menelaos and Paris and the marital strife between Paris and Helen. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 014: On Symbols

    25/01/2018 Duración: 14min

    In Episode 014 friend and listener, Wes Schantz, calls in to ask two major questions: (1) how does a conk shell differ from a staff as a symbol? (2) Is this an analytic or creative endeavor? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 013: Iliad Bk III Pt 2

    25/01/2018 Duración: 22min

    In this episode, we consider the famous so-called Teichoscopia where Helen first describes the Achaians to King Priam. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 012: Iliad Bk III Pt 1

    24/01/2018 Duración: 28min

    In Episode 012 we discuss the first 120 lines of Homer's Iliad Book III. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 011: Commentary Bk II

    22/01/2018 Duración: 24min

    In Episode 011, we consider three major symbols in Homer's Iliad Book II: (1) proper use of speech, (2) the scepter of the king, (3) the sparrow and the snake. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 010: Iliad Book II

    21/01/2018 Duración: 33min

    In episode 010, I lecture on Homer's Book II: Agamemnon's Evil Dream, Nestor, Agamemnon's failed pump-up speech, Odysseus' fixing the situation, Thersites, and the Catalog of Ships --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

  • Episode 009: Iliad Book I Pt 2

    18/01/2018 Duración: 35min

    In this episode, I account for the second half of the Iliad: Achilleus and Agamemnon argue; Achilleus leaves the war effort; Briseis is taken; Thetis requests of Zeus for Achilleus; Drama in Heaven between Zeus and Hera and Hephaistos mediates. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

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