190: Herodotus IV: Cambyses "The Passable"

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this installment of Thomas's series on the Landmark Herodotus, we talk about the reign of Cambyses, who gave bad gifts, had bad spies, and couldn't pull back a fancy bow. He was cranky about it.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to classical stuff you should know, a podcast about classical education, old books, old poems, sometimes some art, and just like learning.
0:22.2	Philosophy, if you listened to our last episode, we talked a lot about free will and God and stuff.
0:27.5	Anyway, this is what we do.
0:29.3	My name is Graham Donaldson, and I am joined with my co-partners in learning.
0:36.1	Co-partners, that's interesting.
0:37.6	Isn't that redundant? Yeah, aren't all partners like co? Thatners in learning. That's interesting. Isn't that redundant?
0:38.9	Yeah.
0:39.1	Aren't all partners like co?
0:40.8	That's so interesting.
0:42.7	Yeah.
0:43.2	Great point.
0:43.9	Okay.
0:44.2	I'm joined by my co's, AJ, and Thomas Megby.
0:49.2	Hello.
0:50.1	And we're going back to the beginning, back to the beginning of history.
0:54.1	I want to know what love is, Meggis. And we're going back to the beginning, back to the beginning of history.
1:00.1	I want to know what love is, Megby, and I want you to show me.
1:05.0	Beginning of history, are we talking about like the size of the Big Bang?
1:05.6	Is that where we're?
1:06.7	Yeah, we're going all the way back.
1:07.2	Wait, what do you?
1:07.8	I don't know.
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