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Gregory of Tours (c. 539-594) completed The History of the Franks in 591. The long book's account of Clovis and the Merovingian Dynasty has been one of our most important sources on early Medieval History, ever since.
Episode 105 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-105
Episode 105 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-105-gregory-of-tours-part-1
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Second only to the Tanakh, the 63 Tractates of the Talmud are the main text of Rabbinic Judaism, containing the teachings of thousands of ancient rabbis.
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Episode 104 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-104
Episode 104 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-104-introduction-to-the-talmud
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In the twilight of the Western Empire, Boethius (c. 476-523) served as consul, but ended his life imprisoned by the Ostrogothic King Theodoric, writing The Consolation of Philosophy.
Episode103 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-103
Episode 103Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-103-boethius
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Augustine’s City of God, Part 2 of 2. The second half of the City of God contains some of Late Antiquity’s most influential writings – most notably Augustine’s take on Original Sin.
Episode 102 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-102
Episode 102 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-102-an-old-mans-book
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Augustine’s City of God, Part 1 of 2. The first half of the City of God is a broadside against paganism – its culture, religion, and history, subjects about which Augustine had much to say.
Episode 101 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-101
Episode 101 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-101-against-the-pagans
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Augustine’s Confessions, Part 2 of 2. The second half of Augustine’s Confessions contains some of the most famous theology in Christian history.
Episode 100 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-100
Episode 100 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-100-late-have-i-loved-you
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Augustine’s Confessions, Part 1 of 2. The first half of Augustine’s Confessions tells of his wayward early years, his intellectual journey, and his spiritual awakening.
Episode 99 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-099
Episode 99 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-099-the-boy-who-stole-pears
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Polyglot Jerome (347-420) had a gigantic impact on all subsequent Christian history, leaving behind a huge body of works, including the Latin Bible.
Episode 98 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-098
Episode 98 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-098-saint-jerome
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Ancient Greece Declassified Tour:
https://www.greecepodcast.com/tour/
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The Dionysiaca, Part 2 of 2. The last surviving Greek epic of antiquity draws to a close with Dionysus fighting wars far to the east, in India.
Episode 97 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-097
Episode 97 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-097-blood-and-ivy
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The last epic from Greco-Roman antiquity that survives in full, Nonnus’ fifth-century Dionysiaca tells of the wine god Dionysus’ journey eastward, to India.
Episode 96 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-096
Episode 96 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-096-the-last-pagan-epic
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In 417 CE, the Roman poet Rutilius Namatianus journeyed from Rome back to his homeland of Gaul, not knowing whether there was a home to return to.
Episode 95 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-095
Episode 95 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-095-rutilius-namatianus
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One of the later Latin poets of the Empire, Ausonius’ expansive body of work gives us a window into the changing world of fourth-century Roman culture.
Episode 94 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-094
Episode 94 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-094-ausonius
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Sulpicius Severus’ (c. 363-425) life of St. Martin is one of the great hagiographies – a portrait of a timeless saint, but also of a human being and working bishop.
Episode 93 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-093
Episode 93 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-093-severus-life-of-st-martin
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Athanasius (c. 297-373) wrote a wildly popular biography of the desert hermit St. Anthony, touting the ideals of asceticism and triumph over demonic temptation.
Episode 92 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-092
Episode 92 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-092-athanasius-life-of-antony
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In Carthage, in 203 CE, a Roman noblewoman and her retinue were butchered in an amphitheater. Learn her story, and the earliest history of Christian martyrs.
Episode 91 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-091
Episode 91 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-091-the-passion-of-perpetua
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Learn the documentary history behind how the Catholic Church was founded and set up as an organization, together with some of the works of the earliest church fathers.
Episode 90 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-090
Episode 90 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-090-ante-nicene-catholicism
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Heliodorus of Emesa (3rd/4th century CE) wrote the longest novel to have survived from antiquity, an adventurous romance that reemerged into Europe in the 1500s.
Episode 89 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-089
Episode 89 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-089-the-aethiopica-of-heliodorus
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Great Anthology of Ancient Greek Fiction:
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In roughly the 160s CE, the Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata wrote A True Story, one of history’s earliest surviving novels, with strong tinges of what we’d call science fiction.
Episode 88 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-088
Episode 88 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-088-ancient-greek-sci-fi
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The satirist Lucian (c. 125-180) was popular in his own time and during the Renaissance, among other things probably being the first author of science fiction.
Episode 87 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-087
Episode 87 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-087-lucian-of-samosata
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Once pervasively described as a period of fall and decline, today Late Antiquity is often understood as a period of cultural flowering and economic revolution.
Episode 86 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-086
Episode 86 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-086-intro-to-late-antiquity
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