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Sulla III: Vengeance
Episode Length:
72 MINUTES
How do you keep your team together in a civil conflict? Can a country right itself by warring with itself? What are the limits to which one man will go to punish his enemies? In this episode, Sulla’s most famous, or rather infamous, acts as a leader.
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Analysis
Episode Length:
6 MINUTES
January 11, 2022
Being the Octopus
Plutarch on what the octopus, and the mythic figure Proteus (who King Menelaus met on his way back from Troy) can tell us about friendship.
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Analysis
Episode Length:
6 MINUTES
January 4, 2022
On Having Even More Friends
Coming back to Plutarch's essay on having many friends, with remarks from Zeuxis, Chilon, and Thucydides
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Analysis
Episode Length:
6 MINUTES
December 28, 2021
On Having Many Friends
A quote and meditation from Plutarch's On Having Many Friends.
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History Contains Power
My name is Alex Petkas, and in The Cost of Glory, I present you with the best stories, analyses and takeaways, from the greatest and most influential figures from Greco-Roman antiquity.
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