56: Oedipus at Colonus

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Bees leads this one on a Sophoclesian (just made that word up, and it's awesome) play. You can see the title of the play in the title of the podcast episode. It's just right up there.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to classical stuff you should know. We are a podcast about the classical world,
0:15.2	classical philosophy, old books, old things, old people. We are only moderately old ourselves.
0:22.0	Wait, what? And we pretty much are just trying to bring classicism to you in a way that is
0:27.3	digestible for the normal person, right? Because it should be, right? They're classics for a reason,
0:32.9	which, yeah. Yeah. Well, like those digestive cookies. Digestive cookies?
0:37.7	What's it? What's it?
0:38.4	Aren't all cookies?
0:39.3	Digested?
0:39.9	Yeah.
0:40.2	Those digestive, you don't have digestive cookies in the States?
0:42.7	Are they four digestible?
0:44.3	What are you talking about?
0:44.3	What are you?
0:44.7	Well, they were created back in like the 19th century England to sort of aid in digestion.
0:49.3	They're, they're cookies.
0:50.8	Yeah. Do they taste gross? Oh, they're kind of bland. They exist.
0:55.9	This doesn't, you guys don't know about this? This sounds like what happened was a baker made some
0:59.3	terrible cookies. I was like, I'll just call these that they're good for digestion. And then he
1:04.1	sells his bland cookies. No, this was back in the day of like making things that you thought had
1:07.6	a healthy reason. So like hot chocolate back in the day was a medicinal drink.
1:11.9	And then because they thought that the cocoa bean was, you know,
1:14.1	and then they didn't put any sugar in it.
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