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Dr. Alex Petkas spent years learning dead languages so he could tell you what the greatest men who ever lived were actually like. This one goes everywhere — a library buried by Vesuvius, a coup that broke Sparta, philosophers who got way too close to power, and why Julius Caesar wept in front of a statue. There are hundreds of scrolls under that villa that no living person has read. That's about to change.
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Podcast: Cost of Glory
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0:00 Introduction
2:50 Caesar and Alexander
7:20 Finding personal wisdom
11:45 Turning points and wisdom
14:17 Academic pursuit of Greek
17:13 Attic Greek explained
20:46 System of classics
25:58 The power of texts
30:13 Leaving academia
35:59 Lessons from Odysseus
40:00 Cost of Glory mission
46:19 Philosophers and power
49:45 Hypatia and intrigue
56:50 Plato in Sicily
1:11:51 Pythagorean influence
1:17:22 The Theban coup
1:34:01 Assassinating Caesar
1:38:32 The Classical Society
1:42:11 Eumenes of Cardia
1:48:24 Remains of Alexander
1:52:14 Herculaneum scrolls
2:01:44 Epicurean philosophy
2:10:32 Philosophy and empire
2:20:41 Excellence in culture
2:30:49 Closing thoughts