HeyJaredThe Western Traditions Podcast
A podcast, in twelve series, about the history of western culture and traditions.
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Episode III.29 - The Culture of the Late Roman Republic (opens the original)
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How philosophy, religion and other aspects of Roman culture began to change in the 1st century BC. Epicurus, Lucretius, Cato the Younger, Roman concrete, frescoes, mosaics, Cicero.
Episode IX.10 - On the Final Scene of Hamnet (opens the original)
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The final scene of Hamnet is a dense, powerfully-acted demonstration of story-telling and character development. The episode relates how Jessie Buckley accomplishes a memorable feat of acting primarily through facial expression and gestures rather than with the spoken word, the traditional medium of acting. The scene also meditates on that black door, and the undiscovered country in each of us.
Episode III.28 - Pompey (opens the original)
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In the early first century BC, after the death of Sulla, the Roman Republic's moved and shaken by the work and charisma of several powerful men: Pompey, Crassus, Sertorius, Metellus, Lucullus and others. These men shepherd the Roman state into and out of one conflict after the other: The Sertorian War, the Third Servile War, the Third Mithridatic War and others. By 63 BC, Pompey has conquered the Seleucid Empire and seized the city of Jerusalem, and now Roman power extends from Spain in the West
Episode III.27 - Sulla (opens the original)
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The Roman Republic enters the last century before Christ weakened not only by external warfare but also by internal struggles. Marcus Livius Drusus, after proposing some radical changes is assassinated. Yet Rome survives the Social War, the war with Mithridates and the First Civil War all in succession. Marius serves his last consulship. His former lieutenant, Sulla, seizes power and restores Roman solidity briefly before dying himself. We are introduced to names like Pompey, Crassus and Julius
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