66: The Funeral Oration of Pericles

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

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🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Thucydides wrote down, best he could, the funeral oration of Pericles, one of the greatest rulers(ish) of Athens. You'll hear the whole thing, then we discuss.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know a podcast put on by three classical dudes, three classy dudes all talking.
0:15.0	Probably can't say that. I can't say classy. I'm, I don't think that's an adjective that could be used for me.
0:22.3	By one classy dude, Graham Donaldson and the two of us, AJ and Macby.
0:26.8	My dearest bros. Yes.
0:27.1	I'm okay with that.
0:27.8	I would accept that description.
0:29.3	Anyway, you're dialing in for the first time.
0:32.6	This is, I'm welcome.
0:33.7	Glad to have you here.
0:34.4	Buckle up.
0:35.0	Buckle up for knowledge, as we say at the beginning of every podcast.
0:39.3	Guys, I actually don't know what we're talking about today, but I know AJ is the one
0:42.5	talking about it.
0:43.4	I'm looking at a piece of paper that says first year slash winter.
0:46.3	So we're talking about the seasons today.
0:48.4	That's not true.
0:49.2	Yeah.
0:49.6	I mean, we could.
0:51.2	You really want to talk about the class? No, I really don't want to. Although it is kind of, we've probably talked about this on the podcast before,
0:57.1	but the Medieval saw time as a circle more than they did see it as linear.
1:03.7	I think we've talked about that, right?
1:04.5	Similar to Matthew McConaughey and Tom is a flat circle.
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