The darkest, bloodiest mythological cycle from ancient Greece, retold by greecepodcast.com and I in a new interview!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK7e...
Also available as an audio podcast at greecepodcast.com.
The darkest, bloodiest mythological cycle from ancient Greece, retold by greecepodcast.com and I in a new interview!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK7e...
Also available as an audio podcast at greecepodcast.com.
Yay! Literatureandhistory.com got a write up in the New York Times! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...
28.12.2025 22:58 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 1I hope you like it! Some of Eliot's earlier work is a little saccharine but that one is tremendous!
16.08.2025 21:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just released, part 2 of a 3-part podcast series on THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD!: literatureandhistory.com/episode-115-.... Based on classical and modern biographies and hadiths, 02:16:00, soundtracked, peer reviewed, and part of our long series on early Islamic history. 😊
15.08.2025 16:10 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
New podcast episode from literatureandhistory.com! This one covers the life of the Prophet Muhammad from ~570-622 CE. 02:22:00, soundtracked, no ads, peer-reviewed, AND SUPPORTED BY MY AWESOME LISTENERS! ❤️ I hope you guys like it! Links to the show are here: literatureandhistory.com/episode-114-...
15.07.2025 22:09 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you for listening to that!
29.06.2025 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's #bloomsday - the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place (June 16th, 1904). Everyone can and should read this book - here's why! #jamesjoyce #ulysses
16.06.2025 14:38 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2Ooooh, thank you, Aven! Thanks for watching. He was family, but he also had a tremendously fun life and he passed away with all of the accomplishments and illustriousness that a canine can have. 😊
15.06.2025 22:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you! He was a thunderbolt, that puppy. 😊
15.06.2025 22:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I wrote this song about my dog, who passed away a few weeks ago. I hope you'll watch it and see what a magnificent creature he was. ♥️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTVW... #chocolatelab #doglife
15.06.2025 18:19 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0That's so awesome! What a way to learn a poem, too - just getting it in your head at the end of an exam! ☺️
08.06.2025 00:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy birthday, Gwendolyn Brooks! (June 7th, 1917) She was one of my favorite poets growing up. #GwendolynBrooks #booksky #poetryisnotdead
06.06.2025 18:37 — 👍 46 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2Same here - same start, same procession through the others! That's awesome! 😎
02.06.2025 21:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy birthday, Thomas Hardy! (June 2nd, 1840) Here's a synopsis of his career and a reading of my favorite poem in literature! #thomashardy #booksky
02.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Happy birthday, Walt Whitman! (May 31st, 1819) #waltwhitman #booksky
01.06.2025 18:53 — 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Happy birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! (May 25th, 1803.) Here's a three-minute summary of why Emerson was such a colossus. #ralphwaldoemerson #booksky #philosophy
26.05.2025 14:51 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0After millions of downloads, and 300 hours of episodes, I thought I'd finally give a look behind the scenes at literatureandhistory.com! Nothing glamorous - just lots of hard work and fun.❤️ #booksky
23.05.2025 19:57 — 👍 35 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 3
I interviewed Lantern Jack of Ancient Greece Declassified recently. We talked about his show and both being PhDs turned podcasters - he's a really interesting guy!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kufa.... He also interviewed me about ancient novels recently, too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zrU...
22.05.2025 19:48 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Annie, you are a prolific reader beyond just about anyone I've ever known! ☺️ (I live Saul Bellow, too.)
21.05.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy birthday to Honoré de Balzac! Here's a summary of one of literature's greatest novelists in three minutes.
#balzac #booksky Links to Père Goriot:
(Read it for free:) www.google.com/books/editio...
(Listen to it for free:)
librivox.org/father-gorio...
Ever wanted to learn about Arabic literature? Here's a good place to start!
literatureandhistory.com/episode-112-...
#arabicpoetry #booksky
Listen to audiobooks and check out e-books FOR FREE from your local library! This is not a paid promotion. I just wanted to make sure everybody who listens to my show and educational podcasts like mine ALSO knows about Libby (libbyapp.com). #LIBBY PEOPLE ARE COOL! #booksky @libbyapp.com
09.05.2025 22:09 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0You can actually read Hume - he was the product of a brief time in British empiricism when excellent writing was cool.
07.05.2025 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's the philosopher David Hume's birthday! (May 7th, 1711) My favorite quote in ALL philosophy comes from Hume (it's at the end of this short video).
#philosophyquotes #davidhume
Love it! That's about the same as mine. This was "feeling excited and feisty, time to do some heavy duty reading" music. 🤣
04.05.2025 01:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This guitar riff popped into my head when I was at the library the other day.
#libraries #library #publiclibrary #booksky
Happy birthday, Marcus Aurelius! (April 26th, 121 CE)
#stoicism #marcusaurelius
It's a long read, but it hits like a nonstop thunderstorm for the last 200 pages.
23.04.2025 17:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy birthday, Shakespeare! (April 23, 1564). ❤️ Here are three SEXY, ROMANTIC, also WEIRD scenes to read with your partner. (These links go to the exact line numbers.)
www.folger.edu/explore/shak...
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#shakespeare #booksky
It's Charlotte Brontë's birthday! To celebrate, read the first page of Jane Eyre with me! 😊
#charlottebronte #booksky
