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Young Heretics

Muad'Dib! Why Achilles was Right and Agamemnon was Wrong

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

And we're off to the races! The Iliad begins in earnest this week with the outbreak of the feud between Achilles and Agammemnon (#TeamAchilles). The drama that unfolds contains almost the entirety of all that was to come in Greek culture, from the terror of hubris to the magnificent achievement of city-states in coalition. Plus: stick around to the end for a bunch of very cool announcements.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Now Paul the Traities, little Paul of Traities, I call him Pesky Paul.

0:04.8

Pesky Paul, he says he's the Muadib.

0:07.8

Muadib, little mouse, little sand mouse.

0:11.0

And he is very tiny, I've seen that TikTok that I was just quoting somebody on Twitter,

0:30.2

which is how I learned about TikTok because I am an old so I have to get all the kids's videos

0:35.3

via clips on TikTok but somebody on Twitter was like post the funniest TikTok you've ever seen

0:40.5

and it was just a still frame shot from the movie Dune and a guy who was

0:46.9

pretending to be Donald Trump doing a Trump impression but he had put his face

0:51.1

onto the sandworm because it's me it's me shy

0:55.7

hoolud your favorite sandworm shy hoolud it's great and I'll post a link to it in the

1:01.9

comments because you got to watch it.

1:03.7

But I did have a reason for bringing it up. What was it? Oh right, yes. Muadib. This is going to be the

1:09.7

Muadib episode of Young Heretics and I will explain why in just a moment. I've got a ton of

1:16.4

announcements for you guys so do stick around until the end, make sure you listen through to the end

1:22.3

for a bunch of exciting stuff that's coming down the pike.

1:25.8

I think you're going to enjoy a lot of this stuff.

1:27.8

And I'm stoked to tell you about it, but I know you, I know you're here for the Homer,

1:32.2

you're here for the Homer you're here for the Homer and so am I I'm really

1:35.2

excited that we have made it now to the beginning of the Iliad this is our series

1:39.7

on Homeric poetry it's part of our getting ready to watch this Ray-Feyns movie that's

1:45.5

coming out about the end of the Odyssey, but also it's Young Heretics Core.

1:50.0

This is the show about the great treasures of Western civilization.

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