Episodes
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The poet of Joan of Arc, and a notable example of a female writer in the premodern period, Christine de Pizan took a turn at the popular humanist genre of the mirror to princes in her book "The Book of the Body Politics." Jonathan and Ryan take a look at her characterization of virtue, corporal punishment, and what it takes to educate a Caesar.
Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Christine de Pizan's The Book of the Body Politic: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780521422598
C.S. Lewis's The Weight of Glory: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780060653200
Christopher Schlecht's "Did Dorothy Sayers Get Education Wrong?": https://youtu.be/--gjw3gaG-U?si=7OLZ-SlExk8_QMp2
Joris-Karl Huysmans's Against the Grain: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780199555116
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In his essay "On Educating Children," a follow-up to his denunciation of pedantry, Michel de Montaigne warns that "natural affection makes parents too soft" and incapable of properly disciplining their children, or even of letting their children take the risks and encounter the dangers they ought to. Book-learning, in Montaigne's essay, takes a backseat to the development of real virtue; erudition is ornament, not foundation.
Michel de Montaigne's Complete Essays: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780140446043
Herodotus' Histories: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781400031146
Rhetorica Ad Herennium: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780674994447
New Humanists episode "The First English Conversation, feat. Dr. Colin Gorrie": https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/11362004-the-first-english-conversation-feat-dr-colin-gorrie-episode-xxxii
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When Tim Griffith was coaching soccer and reading ancient Roman rhetorical theory, he realized he had stumbled across a pedagogical goldmine. In this episode, Jonathan and Ryan talk with Tim about raising kids as native Latin speakers, the roles that comprehensible input vs. grammar instruction play in the language classroom, prescriptive versus descriptive grammar, and Roman rhetoric. The product of years of experience and study, Tim’s approach to teaching Latin has borne fruit in his students at New Saint Andrews College, in his curriculum projects at Picta Dicta, and in no small way in the influence he has had on the Ancient Language Institute.
Rhetorica Ad Herennium: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780674994447
Quintilian’s Institutes of Oratory (Volume I): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780674995918
Picta Dicta: https://pictadicta.com/
Shop Picta Dicta at Roman Roads Press: https://romanroadspress.com/latinHans Ørberg’s Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: Familia Romana: https://amzn.to/3hoLz7V
W.H.D. Rouse’s Latin on the Direct Method: https://books.google.com/books/about/Latin_on_the_Direct_Method_By_W_H_D_Rous.html?id=oMXxMgEACAAJ
New Saint Andrews College: https://nsa.edu/
ALI Latin classes for adults: https://ancientlanguage.com/register-latin/
ALI Ancient Greek classes for adults: https://ancientlanguage.com/register-greek/
ALI Latin for Kids Program: https://ancientlanguage.com/latin-for-kids/
ALI Latin for Kids Self-Study Course: https://ancientlanguage.com/latin-curriculum/
Erasmus' De Copia: https://amzn.to/3Phf9MH
Paul Distler's Teach the Latin, I Pray You: https://amzn.to/4cflhPC
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We threw off the monarchy... now what? Having established a republic on American soil, the Founding Fathers were faced with the question of how to educate a new generation of people who would protect American liberty. The most underrated of the Founding Fathers, Dr. Benjamin Rush, devoted considerable time and attention to this question. In this episode, Jonathan and Ryan are joined by Clifford Humphrey to discuss Rush's "Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic."
Clifford Humphrey's Are "Merely Christian" Colleges Enough?: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/02/are-merely-christian-colleges-enough
Carl Trueman's Mere Christianity on Campus: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/02/mere-christianity-on-campus
Clifford Humphrey's The Ends of "Mere Classical" Schools: https://americanreformer.org/2023/04/the-ends-of-mere-classical-schools/
Our American Stories' episode on Benjamin Rush: https://www.ouramericanstories.com/podcast/history/founding-father-benjamin-rush
Benjamin Rush's Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic: https://explorepahistory.com/odocument.php?docId=1-4-218#
Ian Dagg's Regime and Education: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9783031373824
Plutarch's Greek Lives (includes Lycurgus): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780199540051
Joseph Addison's Cato: A Tragedy: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780865974432
Eric Nelson's The Hebrew Republic: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780674062139
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Leonardo Bruni was the titan of Renaissance historians and a prolific humanist. In a long letter to an aristocratic Italian woman, Battista Malatesta, he lays out his philosophy of humanistic education, which is meant to help the student achieve glory. But laziness or ineptitude, he says, threatens the student always, and will drag her down to crawl alongside other mediocrities. Bruni insists on deep reading of the greatest orators, poets, and historians, alongside biblical and theological study.
Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
I Tatti Renaissance Library's Humanist Educational Treatises (containing Bruni's entire letter in Latin and English): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780674007598
Leonardo Bruni's History of the Florentine People (Volume I): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780674005068
Donald Phillip Verene's The Art of Humane Education: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780801440397
C.S. Lewis's On Stories (includes The Parthenon and The Optative): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780062643605
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Michel de Montaigne was a native Latin speaker in modern Europe and yet a great innovator in French letters; among other things, he invited the genre known as the essay. His elegant, searching essays are intended to expose the reality of his own soul - and that of his readers. In "On Schoolmasters' Learning," this most studios of men wonders aloud whether education is actually good for you. After all, look at all the people obsessed with books and yet completely useless for anything productive. Maybe study actually harms your soul?
Michel de Montaigne's Complete Essays: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780140446043
Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta: https://amzn.to/49k1zjc
Aristophanes' Clouds: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780801485749
The Cost of Glory | Lucullus I: https://share.transistor.fm/s/4ef111e2
Plato's Hippias Major: https://amzn.to/3SI8PA6
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Aeneas Silvius was an accomplished Renaissance humanist, author of erotic literature, and influential aide to emperors and popes (and an antipope). Then, he became a pope himself. As Pope Pius II, he then added memoirist, urban planner, and antiquarian to his list of accomplishments. He contributed to the popular Renaissance "mirror of princes" genre in a letter to a young boy-king in Central Europe, where he makes the case for reading pagan poetry as a Christian.
Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
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Jonathan and Ryan turn to a set of selections from the Prince of Humanists himself, Desiderius Erasmus. In Liber Antibarbarorum, Erasmus pillories the precious Christians who refuse to read pagan authors on account of their own squeamish consciences. In Education of a Christian Prince, and On the Education of Children, Erasmus gives principled arguments for humanistic education and practical advice for those responsible for carrying it out.
Roland Bainton's Erasmus of Christendom: https://amzn.to/3v8NlTC
Desiderius Erasmus' Praise of Folly: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780691165646
Desiderius Erasmus' Education of a Christian Prince: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780521588119
Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780664241582
Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Eric Adler on The New Thinkery: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eric-adler-on-the-new-humanism/id1524739522?i=1000638422051
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"As only the Catholic and communist know, all education must be ultimately religious education." So argues T.S. Eliot in his essay "Modern Education and the Classics," in which he contrasts three different camps in the world of education: the radical, the liberal, and the orthodox. Eliot seems to say that the only hope for continued erudition in the Greek and Roman classics is a rebirth of Christendom. Jonathan and Ryan discuss Eliot's provocative thesis, along with the lessons he offers to would-be educational reformers.
T.S. Eliot's Modern Education and the Classics: https://muse.jhu.edu/document/615
T.S. Eliot's Selected Essays: https://amzn.to/3GD5mft
Eric Adler's Humanistic Letters: https://amzn.to/41kvlSbJohn Peterson's College Is Too Late: https://americanmind.org/features/how-to-save-higher-education/college-is-too-late/
Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780735213302
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In The Greek State, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that the Greek polis existed in order to hold the many in slavery so that the Olympian few could give birth to the beautiful Helen known as Greek culture, and that the Greek state had to be periodically renewed by war so that it could continue to create geniuses. This, he says, is the esoteric meaning behind Plato's Republic. Jonathan and Ryan take a look at this "preface to an unwritten book" and examine the ethical, metaphysical, and historical implications of Nietzsche's argument.
Friedrich Nietzsche's The Greek State: https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Nietzsche-Greek-State-text.pdf
Jacob Burkhardt's The Greeks and Greek Civilization: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780312244477
C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780060652920
T.S. Eliot's Vergil and the Christian World: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27538181
Jacob Burkhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy: https://amzn.to/49RKXk1
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Why was it that the Greeks, the most humane of all peoples, also possessed such a tigerish lust for blood? Why did the Greeks so delight in Homer's depiction of cruelty and death in the Iliad? That is the question animating Friedrich Nietzsche's preface to an unwritten book, "Homer's Contest." Nietzsche turns to the dark Hellenic past, the "womb of Homer" for an explanation, and finds it in Strife, the double-souled goddess lauded by Hesiod.
Friedrich Nietzsche's Homer's Contest: http://www.northamericannietzschesociety.com/uploads/7/3/2/5/73251013/nietzscheana5.pdf
Lee Fratantuono's Madness Unchained: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780739122426
Robin Lane Fox's Homer and His Iliad: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781541600447
Hesiod's Theogony, Works and Days: https://amzn.to/467Nh3l
Dan Carlin's Death Throes of the Republic: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-death-throes-of-the-republic-series/
C.S. Lewis's Surprised by Joy: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780062565433
Jacob Burkhardt's The Greeks and Greek Civilization: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780312244477
René Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780804722155
New Humanists episode on Simone Weil's "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-iliad-or-the-poem-of-force-episode-xxi/id1570296135?i=1000557727910
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Thomas Elyot wrote "The Boke named the Governour," the first book about education written in the English language, an outstanding example in the crowded field of Renaissance-era mirrors for princes. The mirrors for princes were works designed to instruct and train future kings, nobles, and leading men. Machiavelli and Erasmus wrote famous mirrors for princes, but what does the English tradition of this genre have to show us?
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Thomas Elyot's The Boke named The Governour: https://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/gov/gov1.htm
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780199535699
Desiderius Erasmus' The Education of a Christian Prince: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780521588119
Niccolo Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: https://amzn.to/463xl2y
Plutarch's Parallel Lives (inc. Lycurgus): https://amzn.to/3YbAPxk
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"Simple necessity has forced men, even among the heathen, to maintain pedagogues and schoomasters if their nation was to be brought to a high standard." In his address "To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany," Martin Luther exhorts Germany's civic leaders to establish public schools for the education of all German children. Foremost among his priorities in his proposed educational program is instruction in ancient languages, something that, according to Luther, Satan wants to suppress. We dive into German education, ancient language instruction, and the eternal debate over public schools versus homeschooling.
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Plutarch's Parallel Lives (inc. Numa and Lycurgus): https://amzn.to/3YbAPxk
Andrew Cuff's Marcus Aurelius, Uncensored: https://beckandstone.com/created/marcus-aurelius-uncensored
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Ulrich Zwingli was one of the towering figures of the Reformation, a committed humanist, and a warrior who ultimately fell in battle. He despised the idea that Christianity could render men passive, and in a short treatise from 1523 to a young nobleman, he sketches the outlines of his ideal education for the creature called man: "We are set between the hammer and the anvil, half beast and half angel."
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Davenant Institute Ad Fontes podcast on Zwingli: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zwingli-we-hardly-knew-ye/id1557560666?i=1000545490988
Bruce Gordon's Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet: https://amzn.to/43zIOVN
New Humanists episode on T.S. Eliot's Notes Towards the Definition of Culture: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t-s-eliots-praise-for-privilege-episode-xvi/id1570296135?i=1000549689865
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In the opening lecture of his course on Homer, the Professor of Greek at the University of Wittenberg, Phillip Melanchthon, first invokes the aid of the gods and declares that to Homer belongs "the highest and noblest place." Further, Melanchthon proclaims that Homer "alone snatches away the palm of victory from all poets that any age has brought forth, and he leaves them all far behind." Jonathan and Ryan take a look at Melanchthon's encomium for Homer and defense against the many varieties of Homeric critics, both ancient and modern.
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781107604704
Homer's Iliad (Greek-English): https://amzn.to/3O2sBEd
Homer's Odyssey (Greek-English): https://amzn.to/46DbOPe
New Humanists Episode on T.S. Eliot's Vergil and Christian World: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/was-virgil-divinely-inspired-episode-xxxiii/id1570296135?i=1000582748821
Daoiri Farrell's The Valley of Knockanure: https://youtu.be/lu-FG92a9Cw
New Humanists Episode on Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-iliad-or-the-poem-of-force-episode-xxi/id1570296135?i=1000557727910
Herodotus' The Histories: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781400031146
Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta Oratio: https://amzn.to/3JS7y4D
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A stern prophet of the new and harsh doctrine of predestination. A bloodthirsty tyrant burning people at the stake. A narrowminded dour Puritan. The magnitude of the popularity of these Calvinist stereotypes is matched by their massive distance from the truth of the man. In his affection for the pagan authors, Calvin reveals a deeply humanistic soul, attuned to truth no matter which rock he might find it under. In this episode, Jonathan and Ryan examine a particularly illustrative passage from his Institutes as well as a short passage from his commentary on Titus.
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Bruce Gordon's Calvin: https://amzn.to/3NQ4UPa
John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780664220280
Alister McGrath's C.S. Lewis - A Life: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781496410450
C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780060652920
New Humanists episode on C.S. Lewis' Introduction to Athanasius' On the Incarnation: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c-s-lewis-on-old-books-episode-xiv/id1570296135?i=1000546657094
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How do you prepare a royal princess for the throne? In this episode, we look at the writings of two giants of Reformation humanism: Johannes Sturm and Roger Ascham, and in particular, their correspondence about Ascham's work training the future Queen Elizabeth I in Latin and Greek. Ascham himself variously tutored and served as Latin secretary to Lady Jane Grey, the woman who ordered her execution (Queen Mary), and the woman who replaced Queen Mary (Queen Elizabeth). If you think speaking dead languages is a new-fangled approach to language learning, you might be surprised at what Princess Elizabeth was doing in class.
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1844
Roger Ascham's Toxophilus: https://www.archerylibrary.com/books/toxophilus/
New Humanists episode on Ælfric's Colloquy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-first-english-conversation-feat-dr-colin-gorrie/id1570296135?i=1000581249310
C. P. Wormald's "The Uses of Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England and Its Neighbours": https://www.jstor.org/stable/3679189
C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780060652944
Herodotus' Histories: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781400031146
Shakespeare's The Tempest: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780743482837
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King Tarquinius secures his hold on power by expanding the Senate, but encounters a roadblock to strengthening the military in the person of a famous augur. Tarquinius is ruthless, productive, and the first great Roman promoter of "bread and circuses" (among other things, according to Livy, Tarquinius builds the Circus Maximus). Despite his political saavy, however, he comes to a violent, borderline slapstick end.
Livy's Ab Urbe Condita: https://amzn.to/3gYwtbh
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: https://amzn.to/3NtNBSj
Virgil's Aeneid: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780143105138
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Strange omens, plague, occult religious rites. King Tullus Hostilius' reign collapses in something like supernatural madness. The great Ancus Marcius takes over, but is finally deceived by a rich, mysterious newcomer to Rome: Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. Join Jonathan and Ryan as they outline how the first of the Tarquins takes the throne after first disinheriting his own nephew, and then effectively disinheriting the sons of Ancus Marcius, whom Lucius was bound to protect.
Livy's Ab Urbe Condita: https://amzn.to/3gYwtbh
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: https://amzn.to/3NtNBSj
Rene Girard's I See Satan Fall Like Lightning: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781570753190
Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana: https://amzn.to/3qgEcWN
Fustel de Coulanges's La Cité Antique (French): https://amzn.to/3yzATuZ
Fustel de Coulanges's The Ancient City (English): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780648690542
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Lysander is a troubling figure. As a child, he was a charity case who excelled his more affluent peers; he never cared for wealth, and yet overlooked the rapaciousness of his friends, allowing money and luxury into Sparta, corrupting it. He liberated the Greek world from the yoke of Athenian imperialism, but then installed oligarchic juntas to rule with an iron fist. He conquered Athens itself, but campaigned at a war council to spare the city from destruction. But once inside the city, he threatened the Athenians with extermination if they didn't obey him. Alex Petkas, the host of the Cost of Glory podcast, joins Jonathan and Ryan in discussing Plutarch's account of the extraordinary Lysander.
Alex Petkas's Cost of Glory podcast (Lysander 1): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lysander-1-death-of-democracy/id1580153815?i=1000565510664
Ancient Life Coach: https://ancientlifecoach.com/
Speak Lead Retreat: https://ancientlifecoach.com/retreat/
Herodotus' Histories: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781400031146
Isocrates' Evagoras: https://amzn.to/40NyCaP
Pindar's Olympian Odes: https://amzn.to/429sk6m
Plutarch's Parallel Lives, including Lysander (Loeb edition): https://amzn.to/3HjDnC8
Plutarch's Parallel Lives, including Lysander (Penguin edition): https://amzn.to/44amYK5
University of Chicago's Penelope Parallel Lives: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/home.html
Euripides' Electra: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780226035598Xenophon's Anabasis: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780307906854
Andrew Roberts's Napoleon: A Life: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780143127857
Sean McMeekin's Stalin's War: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781541672796
Alex Petkas's Cost of Glory episode 1 on the Anabasis: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/xenophon-anabasis-i-power-highlights/id1580153815?i=1000597494893
Xenophon's Hellenika: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781400034765
Steven Pressfield's Tides of War: https://amzn.to/3oQF9Eq
Paul Cartledge's Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta: https://amzn.to/3LDaFi3
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