BBC Radio 4: In Our Time

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BBC Radio 4: In Our Time. Archive by Era: Ancient Greece.

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• title_full: BBC Radio 4: In Our Time
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England, Greece, ancient, antiquity, podcast, time

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• BBC Radio 4: In Our Time
• Archive by Era: Ancient Greece
• Archimedes . Melvyn Bragg discusses the Greek mathematician Archimedes and his famous cry of "eureka!"
• Aristotle's Poetics . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics
• Aristotle's Politics . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle’s ‘Politics’
• Averroes . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 12th century Islamic philosopher, Averroes
• Comedy in Ancient Greek Theatre . Melvyn Bragg explores comedy in Ancient Greek theatre including Aristophanes and Menander
• Cultural Imperialism . Melvyn Bragg examines how a dominant power can exert a cultural influence on its empire
• Cynicism . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cynics, the performance artists of philosophy
• Democracy . Melvyn Bragg examines the origins of the most cherished form of government in the world
• Friendship . Melvyn Bragg explores the concept of friendship; ‘a single soul dwelling in two bodies’
• Greek and Roman Love Poetry . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Greek and Roman love poetry
• Happiness . Melvyn Bragg considers whether 'happiness' means living a life of pleasure or of virtue
• Heraclitus . Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus
• Heroism . Melvyn Bragg explores what defines a hero, and their place in classical society
• Logic . Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic
• Pi . Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the longest and most detailed number in nature
• Prime Numbers . Melvyn Bragg examines prime numbers and their mysterious role in the universe of numbers
• Pythagoras . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
• Relativism . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss relativism; a philosophy with no absolute truths
• Rhetoric . Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses rhetoric; supported by Aristotle but reviled by Plato
• Socrates . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the iconic Greek philosopher, Socrates
• Sparta . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta
• Stoicism . Melvyn Bragg explore Stoicism, the most influential philosophy in the Ancient World
• The Amazons . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Amazons, formidable female warriors of classical myth
• The Artist . Melvyn Bragg explores the history and changing the status of the artist
• The Delphic Oracle . Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle
• The Examined Life . Melvyn Bragg investigates how our preoccupations about how to live have altered over time
• The Greek Myths . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus
• The Hippocratic Oath . Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath
• The Library of Alexandria . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria
• The Oath . Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the importance of the oath in the Classical World
• The Odyssey . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the monster filled epic, Homer’s Odyssey
• The Oresteia . Melvyn Bragg examines the ‘Oresteia’, the seminal trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus
• The School of Athens . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Raphael's depiction of Plato and Aristotle
• The Translation Movement . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world
• The Trojan War . Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Trojan War, a central event of Ancient Greek mythology
• Thermopylae . Melvyn Bragg examines the Battle of Thermopylae, a defining clash between East and West
• Tragedy . Melvyn Bragg examines whether the ancient genre of tragedy has a place in our own time
• Virtue . Melvyn Bragg explores the meaning and purpose of the philosophical concept of virtue
• Xenophon . Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian and soldier Xenophon

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl

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4