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- Series 9.3 Ovid's Metamorphoses, Daphne and Apollo
The first great love story, with tender moments and an ending that is - well, let's not label it. It's followed by a parallel story, more brutal and painful, which pivots us into the next major story.
19 min - Series 9.2 Ovid's Metamorphoses: Flood, Deucalion & Pyrrha
Jupiter wipes out all the people in this evil world - except two wonderful, loving people, who then perform the promised miracle.
15 min - Series 9.1 Ovid's Metamorphoses: Creation & Lycaon
We begin a journey through Ovid's great compilation of myths, with his version of the Creation story, and then the first of many evil characters who will be appearing, Lycaon, King of Arcadia - but not for long.
28 min - Series 8.4 Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" 3
We conclude our discussion of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience", with Thoreau's reflections on his imprisonment and our own responses to the essay. And we end with some touching moments from Thoreau's last days.
16 min - Series 8.3 Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" 2
How did Thoreau disconnect himself from a government that promoted unjust laws? He broke the law and went to prison - but not for very long. We hear his accounts of this experience, both inside the prison and afterwards, back in the community.
17 min - Series 8.2 Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" 1
"Unjust laws exist," Thoreau says. How do we define an unjust law, and then what do we do about it?
18 min - Series 8.1 Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience", Introduction
We begin a discussion of Henry David Thoreau's seminal essay "Civil Disobedience" with an introduction to the man and the historical context he was living and writing in.
15 min - Series 3.21 Stevenson's Fables, "The Clockmaker"
After an interval, we finish Series 3 with the twenty-second and final fable from the collection of Robert Louis Stevenson. "The Clockmaker" is the odd story of a civilisation of microbic creatures that parallels ours in many ways, and gives us a new, and comic perspective on our human limitations.
27 min - Series 7.3, "Differing voices make sweet music": Diversity in Unity in Dante's Divine Comedy, part 3
The third and concluding part of the talk to the Beshara Institute on Diversity in Unity in Dante's Divine Comedy.
21 min - Series 7.2, "Differing voices make sweet music": Diversity in Unity in Dante's Divine Comedy, part 2
We continue with examples of Diversity in Unity in the Inferno and the Purgatorio.
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Robert-Louis Abrahamson brings to life literary classics, and invites you to bring them into your life, helping you see the world, and yourself, in new ways.