Get in Loser, We're Reading Epic Poems

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It's a new year, and it's time for a new epic. You asked, we delivered: here comes Virgil's Aeneid! BUT FIRST: while we were gone over the Christmas vacation, Twitter descended into an intoxicating madness of epic adaptation, debate, and counter-programming. I'll recap the major points and give my take on: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, whether you should have heard of Homer before, and what you should think of Emily Wilson's new translations. Then we'll launch into our new series for the year, on the little Roman epic with big hopes to rival Greece.

Use code HERETICS to get 10% off Field of Greens: fieldofgreens.com

Read my review of Emily Wilson's Odyssey and Iliad translations: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/homer-without-heroes/

Order Light of the Mind, Light of the World (and rate it five stars): https://a.co/d/2QccOfM

I maked this: "The Crisis of Purpose in the West": https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/report/resurrection-or-surrender-the-crisis-purpose-the-west

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up guys? Welcome back to Young Heretics 2025.
0:04.0	We kicked a year off with an international Twitter war over translation.
0:09.0	We've got a Christopher Nolan Odyssey coming out, and we are reading the Aeneid.
0:16.0	I'm thinking we're so back, baby. All right, happy.
0:23.6	All right, Happy New Year.
0:28.6	Merry Christmas.
0:29.6	It's finally, Christmas is finally over.
0:31.6	I hope you've been celebrating for 12 days straight.
0:34.6	Christmas does not end until Epiphany. That means it goes all the way through January 6th.
0:40.3	And it is now Christmas tied. That means you can still be festive. You can still be celebrating.
0:45.3	The whole season is one of joy and general merriment at the coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, into the world.
0:54.9	It's until February 2nd, which is a very good thing, because this is the bleakest time of the year.
0:59.7	These months are really cold.
1:01.7	They're really hard to get through if all you're celebrating is some lame, secular holiday,
1:06.4	like, no, I don't know, Valentine's Day, blah, blah, blah.
1:10.2	It's all drudgery unless you are celebrating
1:13.0	Christmas tide for months and months. So I hope you're still in the festive mood. I hope you
1:17.9	had a great and restful New Year's. I know I did. I feel tanned, rested, and ready to go.
1:23.3	I'm out here in Florida. If you're watching on YouTube, you can see this awesome new studio
1:28.9	that's set up out here in New College, where I am teaching a winter course on Marcus Aurelius
1:35.0	Meditations. It's really fun to be out here. I'm stoked to be part of what's going on
1:40.5	at New College. And I'm going to kick this year off right Right, we are going to be reading the Aeneid together.
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