174: Herodotus, History, and Happiness

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Herodotus put together a pretty stellar history, and the Landmark version is a stellar translation of it. In this episode we discuss the book and several stories from it.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome to classical stuff you should know.
0:12.1	It's a wonderful sunny Saturday here in Austin, Texas, and we are coming to you to talk about classical things.
0:17.3	My name is AJ Haniburg, and I'm joined by Graham Donaldson.
0:19.9	Hi.
0:20.3	And Thomas Magby.
0:21.3	Hello. And the three of us used to all work together at Veritas Academy. Now we have,
0:26.1	you know, some of us work other places. We got other irons in the fire and we're still doing
0:30.1	stuff. And so it's me. I did it. I'm sorry. Yep. I broke up the band. Is that what's happening right now? Hey, our band is still together. The band is still together. Sorry, I apologize.
0:37.8	I don't see no Yoko.
0:39.4	Yeah.
0:40.6	Yoko would be the one tearing us apart.
0:42.0	Exactly.
0:42.4	So, math.
0:43.2	Math is our yoke.
0:43.8	Math is our yoke.
0:44.6	Math is our yoke.
0:45.7	I like everyone trying to piece that together right there.
0:47.6	Good. job is to do is bring you classical old things in a way that is palatable and fun and will
0:55.8	hopefully make you love education in a way that maybe you didn't when you were in school.
1:00.1	And today we are talking about Herodotus and his histories, as far as I know, but why we would
1:04.9	trust anyone from a thousand years ago to tell us what happened a thousand years ago is that's beyond
1:09.5	me.
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