Tag: Ancient Greece
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Barefaced Greek
Talking as I was in the last post of taking culture to children, I went to a discussion at Senate House about the work of Barefaced Greek, who aimed originaly to take ancient greek texts and make short videos for 14-15 year olds, although it seems they have a wider audience now. They are in…
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Chris Carter on NTS
Chris Carter has his first album in 17 years out on March 30th, Chemistry Lessons Vol 1, which I’m really looking forward to from the bits I’ve heard, and he appeared on a couple of NTS shows to share two mixes of his favourite music. First up is the “>The Synth Hero Show – I…
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Ancient Misogyny and Ageism online
I love Mary Beard and her work and do not hide that fact, so I love this interview with her by William Dalrymple. I’ve seen her face up to rude people on Twitter and yes, she does get them to back down usually…a force to be reckoned with! Her comments on the sexual violence of…
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Audio from silent footage?
I remember Daedulus aka David E. H. Jones, a Mensan (I read his ‘The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes’ as a kid, my mother was a Mensan so she bought it for me) talking about the idea of picking up vibrations from the Ancient Greek plasterers to hear what songs they sung…
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School of Life – Epicurus
Love this video from School of Life about Epicurus. That does sound great – living with friends, doing stuff you want to do, not worrying about money. Funny how the Church came along and converted them into monasteries, because hey, that layer of guilt was missing 😛 Also liked this old series by Alain de…
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The Light of Pleasure (Dionysus vs Apollo) – Captain Obvious
Third act: Our hero Captain Obvious travels to Ancient Greece and Babylon in search of Dionysus, Apollo, Silenus and Bacchus for a Bacchanal and to Xanadu where did Kublai Khan a pleasure dome erect (trans: a right royal knees up). OK it’s not as pretentious as it sounds, but then again not many bootlegs contain…