112: The Republic V: Plato and the Battle Children

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

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🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Plato just keeps getting weirder. This chapter seems to be an aside addressing something he glossed over earlier: having women and children in common. That, and he's probably the first true feminist. Oh wait. No he isn't.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to classical stuff you should know, a podcast about classical education, classical world, classical books, classical food, classical art, classical dress.
0:19.0	Food? Have we done food? No. Okay. It's like dates and olive oil. That sounds disgusting together. It's actually really easy. It's just those two things. Wow, that's all they could eat. Hummus. And mutton. Yeah. What? Mead. Ah, now we're talking. Mutton and olive oil. Isn't mead?. Isn't me just like fermented honey water?
0:37.7	It's, it's like beer, but instead of being fermented from hops, it's fermented from honey,
0:42.2	and it's disgusting.
0:43.3	Oh, well, I think it's disgusting.
0:44.6	Meets gross.
0:45.2	It's so sweet.
0:46.3	Like, it's honey.
0:47.5	I mean, it sounds good.
0:48.6	Maybe I just had really sweet mead.
0:50.5	Other, is it, what? Sweet versus dry, just like wines, right? So there's sweet wines and there's dry wines.
0:54.9	I bet there's dry mead.
0:56.2	Dry mead.
0:56.8	Oh, interesting.
0:57.4	Anyway.
0:57.8	When I have, it was gross.
0:58.7	I don't recommend.
0:59.9	We are three classical educators, and we like cast and pods.
1:04.2	My name is Graham Donaldson, and I am joined with AJ Hanenberg.
1:07.8	That's me.
1:08.4	And Thomas Magby.
1:09.2	Hello. And thanks for listening.
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