Classics Scholar Dr. Anika Prather on Healing the Present by Studying the Past

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On today’s episode, Ryan talks to Classics Scholar Dr. Anika Prather about the bridge that books can create between diverse cultures, why it’s so important to continue teaching the Classics in Universities, how to properly educate young people about racial inequality, and more.

Dr. Anika T. Prather has earned several graduate degrees in education from New York University and Howard University. Her research focus is on building literacy with African American students through engagement in the books of the Canon and self-published her book Living in the Constellation of the Canon: The Lived Experiences of African American Students Reading Great Books Literature recently.

The Jordan Harbinger Show is one of the most interesting podcasts on the web, with guests like Kobe Bryant, Mark Manson, Eric Schmidt, and more. Listen to one of Ryan's episodes right now (1, 2), and subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show today.

KiwiCo believes in the power of kids and that small lessons today can mean big, world-changing ideas tomorrow. KiwiCo is a subscription service that delivers everything your kids will need to make, create and play. Get 30% off your first month plus FREE shipping on ANY crate line with code STOIC at kiwico.com.

Policygenius will help you find the insurance coverage you need. You can save 50% or more by comparing quotes. And when your life insurance policy is sorted out, you’ll know that your family will be protected if anything happens. Just go to policygenius.com to get started.

LinkedIn Jobs is the best platform for finding the right candidate to join your business this fall. It’s the largest marketplace for job seekers in the world, and it has great search features so that you can find candidates with any hard or soft skills that you need. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit linkedin.com/STOIC to post a job for free.

Follow Dr. Anika Prather: Homepage, Twitter

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:10.5	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday
0:14.8	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes
0:18.7	Something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage justice
0:23.6	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics
0:30.3	We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives
0:40.3	And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:47.7	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:00.4	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast. I was trying to think about this like what was the first
1:08.4	classic book that I read I don't mean like classics like the great Gatsby. I mean like
1:13.7	classics when they think of the
1:15.7	uh ancient Greek and Roman text you know the Odyssey the Iliad Marx Relius
1:22.4	Virgil
1:24.7	You know
1:25.9	The the real real classic texts like what you would study in the classics departments
1:31.7	and I mean I guess we read parts of the Odyssey in high school
1:36.6	So I guess that would probably be the first but I think my real introduction
1:41.6	To it ironically enough for today's episode would have been reading
1:47.4	Plato's Republic in the allegory of the cave the idea which we'll talk about in the episode
1:52.8	So I won't spoil but I remember being struck by the allegory of the cave. I think it was in a class. I took
1:58.8	My freshman year of college
2:01.7	Freshman or sophomore year actually you know, I guess I would have read Socrates my first year
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.