KHSU's Classics Now

KHSU's Classics Now episodes:

• 08.16.2018

  Classics Now: Balzac’s Portrait of Parisian Life

  Balzac’s Old Goriot paints an astonishingly detailed and living portrait of life at the fringe of Paris society in the early 19th century. The very human characters are prone to all sorts of folly, and as in life, comedy and...

  
• 05.17.2018

  Classics Now: Richard II - A Weak But Eloquent King

  Shakespeare’s Richard II explores the changing nature of kingship in England, and contrasts the poetic but ineffectual Richard with the Machiavellian Bolingbroke, who deposes him to become Henry IV. Join Solomon and Mary for some beautiful Shakespearian poetry about the...

  
• 03.19.2018

  Trickster Tales from Medieval Europe - Reynard the Fox

  Classics Now host Mary Harper discussed the clever and dark tales of Reynard the Fox. Fake news isn’t a new phenomenon. Reynard the Fox was spreading lies with aplomb back in the “beast epics” of Medieval Europe, and everybody fell...

  
• 02.16.2018

  Classics Now: Ancient Greeks and Romans Secrets Revealed

  What drove Alexander to conquer much of the known world? Why did Pompey lack the will to overcome Caesar? Solomon and Mary review biographies of famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch’s Lives.

  
• 01.18.2018

  Classics Now: Herodotus - Father of History (or Father of Lies?)

  In his Histories, Herodotus doesn't just describe the war between Persia and Athens, he paints a vast canvas of the cultures and tribes across the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states, how they evolved, and what brought them into conflict....

  
• 11.16.2017

  Classics Now: Every Hero’s Journey

  From Buddha to Wotan to Luke Skywalker, the hero’s journey remains remarkably the same across cultures and generations. This is Joseph Campbell’s thesis in his “Hero With a Thousand Faces”. Join Mary and Solomon as they discuss Campbell’s “monomyth” which...

  
• 10.20.2017

  Classics Now: Awakening Feminism in 1899

  The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin , first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between...

  
• 08.17.2017

  Kind Children Become Water Babies

  Mary Harper and Solomon Everta from Classics Now discuss Charles Kingley’s The Water Babies- A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby where young Tom becomes a water baby and goes on a journey to learn about kindness.

  
• 06.19.2017

  Classics Now: Emile & Child-Centric Educology

  Mary Harper and Solomon Everta from Classics Now discuss Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, or On Education , Rousseau’s classic on the philosophy and practice of education. Emile’s tutor attempts to show how a young person can be brought up to...

  
• 01.19.2017

  Classics Now: The Wasps by Aristophanes

  Mary and Solomon, from the Northcoast Book Discussion Group discuss The Wasps by Aristophanes.

  
• 11.17.2016

  Classics Now: James Joyce's Dubliners and a Tribute to Lance Hardie

  Mary Harper and Solomon Everta , of the Northcoast Book Discussion Group, review Dubliners , James Joyce's collection of stories capturing Irish middle class life at the turn of the last century. Mary and Solomon will also pay tribute to...

  
• 09.22.2016

  Classics Now: Sonnets from the Portuguese

  Mary Harper and Solomon Everta, of the Northcoast Book Discussion Group, examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning - her strict upbringing; growing up in Jamaica; hiding her marriage from her family. Mary reads passages from Sonnets from the Portuguese - poems written...

  
• 07.21.2016

  Classics Now: Goethe and the Laws of Attraction

  Solomon Everta from the Northcoast Books Discussion Group takes an engaging look at Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Elective Affinities . Classics Now is a monthly feature regularly hosted by Mary Harper and Solomon Everta . Classics Now airs the third...

  
• 06.16.2016

  Classics Now: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

  Mary Harper and Solomon Everta of the Northcoast Books Discussion Group showcase the novelette, Oroonoko, written by Aphra Behn. Aphra Behn is widely recognized as the first professional woman author. Oroonoko was written in the 17th century.

  
• 05.19.2016

  Classics Now: Much Ado About Nothing

  Mary Harper and Solomon Everta of the Northcoast Book Discussion Group talk about William Shakespeare's timeless classic Much Ado About Nothing . Classics Now airs the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1:00 pm on the KHSU Homepage.