43: Beowulf

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Beowulf is one of those epics that is needlessly intimidating. It's a story about a big guy who kills monsters. What's not to love?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know, a podcast on the classical world,
0:14.3	the ancient world, classical education, put on by three guys who like that stuff.
0:20.3	Yep.
0:21.0	And that's our intro for today.
0:24.3	That was a great intro.
0:25.4	Thanks.
0:26.1	Of all of our intros, that might be the most intro of them all.
0:28.1	It's succinct.
0:29.5	It got to the point.
0:30.7	We like to talk about literature.
0:32.0	We like to talk sometimes about theology,
0:34.0	but we love to talk about the classical world, education,
0:37.0	how we learn things,
0:38.4	how human beings grow and develop and become good men and women. And today, AJ is, I think,
0:45.1	talking about some kind of dog. Yeah. Yeah, a bull. Oh, a wolf. Okay. So he's talking, oh,
0:51.3	talking to us. It's predominantly found in bodies of water.
0:54.8	The Bay.
0:55.5	The Bay Wolf?
0:56.6	The Bay of Wolf.
0:57.5	The Bay of Wolves.
0:58.4	That's terrifying.
0:59.3	I'm sorry, audience.
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