Overdue Classics

Overdue Classics

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Overdue Classics episodes

  • Sophocles I: Q&A

    The Chorus...the Fates...blindness...and ideal types. Andrea, Matt, and Brandon answer your questions on Sophocles' Oedipal Cycle with Antigone.


    You can send your questions or comments to [email protected]


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    1 hr 5 min
  • Sophocles I: Antigone

    Andrea, Matt, and Brandon wrap up the Oedipal Cycle with Antigone. The hosts discuss the arc of Creon, the place of fate in Sophocles' plays, and the merits of beginning with Antigone rather than Oedipus Tyrannus.


    You can send your questions on any play or the whole cycle to [email protected]


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    1 hr 17 min
  • Sophocles I: Oedipus at Colony's

    This week, Andrea, Matt, and Brandon continue their discussion of the Oedipal Cycle with Oedipus at Colonus. The hosts are forced to reflect upon and reevaluate their thoughts on Oedipus Tyrannus in light of this second play.


    You can start sending your questions on the first two plays(or any other comments and questions) to [email protected].


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    1 hr
  • Sophocles I: Oedipus Tyrannus

    Join Andrea, Matt, and Brandon as they start their discussion of the Oedipal Cycle with Oedipus Tyrannus, often called Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King. Of the 3 plays, this plot is the most familiar, even to those who haven't read it. But Sophocles doesn't give it to us straight. through devasting revelation, he produces a tragedy that Aristotle would later hod up as the standard in his Poetics.




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    1 hr 4 min
  • Alcibiades I and II: Q&A
    Join Brandon, Andrea, and Matt for this week's episode as they wrap up the discussions of Plato's two Alcibiades dialogs by answering audience questions.

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    1 hr 3 min
  • Alcibiades I: Part 2
    This week, Andrea, Matt, and Brandon wrap up the discussion of Alcibiades I. Does Alcibiades submit to Socrates' guidance? Who can know themselves? And is, "how does one 'know thyself?'" the actual question of this dialog?

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    52 min
  • Alcibiades I: Part 1

    In this episode we cover the 1st half of Alcibiades I, (stopping at Stephanus line 124 b). Join us as we discuss the various ways Socrates holds a mirror up to Alcibiades, preparing him to wrestle with the deeper questions of life.




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    1 hr 1 min
  • An Introduction

    Welcome to CIRCE's brand new bookish podcast, Overdue Classics. Join Matt Bianco, Andrea Lipinski, and Brandon LeBlanc as we discuss, "why one more book podcast?", what we hope to add to the literary podcast landscape, what we mean by "Classic", and the analogical approach to reading. We hope you'll join us as we read all the books we should have already read.


    https://www.circeinstitute.org/store/audio-resources/after-phonics-learning-how-close-read


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    41 min

About Overdue Classics

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Overdue Classics is a reading podcast dedicated to reading Classic texts, aka Great Books. CiRCE wants to invite you into the literature that has stood the test of time and remove the idea that these…