Best Lysande Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 21: The life of Xenophon 31:28

4M ago31:28

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We'd love to hear from you Step into the fascinating world of Xenophon, a soldier, historian, philosopher, and adventurer from ancient Greece whose life reads like an epic tale. This podcast unpacks the extraordinary journey of Xenophon, a student of Socrates, a general in the Persian wilderness, and one of the earliest storytellers of history and …

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Episode 20: The life of Camillus - Part 2 24:50

7M ago24:50

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We'd love to hear from you In this episode, we complete our dive into the life and legacy of Marcus Furius Camillus, one of Rome's most celebrated military leaders and statesmen, often hailed as the "Second Founder of Rome." Camillus played a crucial role in shaping the early Roman Republic, guiding it through some of its most challenging periods. …

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Episode 19: The life of Camillus - Part 1 26:39

2y ago26:39

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We'd love to hear from you Furius Camillus, whom many historians, Plutarch included, say is the second founder of Rome and in my opinion is one of the greatest Roman leaders at least up until the Empire, and even then, still holds his own! Support the show Thanks for supporting our show Plutarch enthusiasts! We're back with all new episodes finishi…

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Episode 18: The Life of Lysander 26:43

2+ y ago26:43

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We'd love to hear from you Lysander's importance to history begins when he is appointed as admiral of the Spartan fleet in 407 BC. At this point Athens's navy has experienced a resurgence with the return of Alcibiades. Lysander takes command of the Spartan fleet at Ephesus and resolves to do what it takes to make it a match for the Athenian navy. A…

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Episode 17 - The Lives of Alcibiades and Nicias - Part 3 24:45

2+ y ago24:45

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We'd love to hear from you After suffering a disastrous setback in Sicily the situation once again looks grim for Athens. The Athenians would continue the fight however and the story of the Peloponnesian War would see a number of surprising twists - with Alcibiades playing a key role in each new turning point in the conflict. Thanks for listening C…

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Episode 16: The Lives of Alcibiades and Nicias - Part 2 23:04

3y ago23:04

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We'd love to hear from you In Part 2 of the Lives of Alcibiades and Nicias, these two polar opposites clash over Athenian foreign policy. With Sparta still a looming threat, Athenians must choose whether to listen to the ambitious Alcibiades or cautious Nicias. Support the show Thanks for supporting our show Plutarch enthusiasts! We're back with al…

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Episode 15: The Lives of Alcibiades and Nicias - Part 1 20:54

3y ago20:54

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We'd love to hear from you For this episode it's going to be another two-for-one special as we will be covering two lives at once, and we will be picking up basically right where we left off. To jog everyone's memories, when we last left Athens the city had just been dealt a devastating blow in it's war with Sparta. Athens's lead citizen Pericles h…

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Episode 14: The Life of Coriolanus - Part 2 - Season One Finale 17:18

3y ago17:18

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We'd love to hear from you Coriolanus was an orphan, a Patrician and a Roman with Roman-sized ambitions who wouldn't let anyone get in his way on the road to glory, fame and prominence. Hope you enjoy! Chris & Ryan Support the show Thanks for supporting our show Plutarch enthusiasts! We're back with all new episodes finishing up season two with Cam…

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Episode 13: The Life of Coriolanus - Part 1 26:42

3+ y ago26:42

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We'd love to hear from you Coriolanus was an orphan, a Patrician and a Roman with Roman-sized ambitions who wouldn't let anyone get in his way on the road to glory, fame and prominence. Hope you enjoy! Chris & Ryan Support the show Thanks for supporting our show Plutarch enthusiasts! We're back with all new episodes finishing up season two with Cam…

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Episode 12: The Life of Pericles Part 2 21:40

3+ y ago21:40

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We'd love to hear from you Pericles had reached heights of political power never achieved before in democratic Athens but the threat of war looms on the horizon for both the city and Greece as a whole. Support the show Thanks for supporting our show Plutarch enthusiasts! We're back with all new episodes finishing up season two with Camillus Part 2 …

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Episode 11: The Life of Pericles Part 1 22:34

3+ y ago22:34

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We'd love to hear from you With Cimon out of the picture for a while, more democratic figures would step up to fill the leadership vacuum, and Pericles would end up becoming the most prominent of these, eventually establishing a legacy as arguably the greatest statesman in the history of Athens. With Pericles as the lead voice in the Ecclesia, Athe…

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Episode 10: The Life of Cimon 27:25

3+ y ago27:25

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We'd love to hear from you Having narrowly survived the invasion of Xerxes massive Persian army, Athens would lean on the leadership of Cimon as it looks to establish supremacy in the Aegean Sea with a new alliance and a powerful navy. Support the show Thanks for supporting our show Plutarch enthusiasts! We're back with all new episodes finishing u…

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Episode 9: The Life of Poplicola 34:22

3+ y ago34:22

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We'd love to hear from you With King Tarquin in exile, and support from the Roman people in hand, Poplicola is forced to play a high stakes game of diplomacy and warfare to secure the newly formed Republic and ensure the tyranny of the cruel monarchy would remain a past indulgence. The life of Poplicola as described by Plutarch makes it clear how t…

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Episode 8: The Lives of Themistocles and Aristides Part 2 33:44

4y ago33:44

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We'd love to hear from you The Persians are coming and Athens is doomed to destruction if the bold and clever Themistocles, and his rival the honorable Aristides, can't find a way to stop them Chris & Ryan Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast Support the show Thanks for supporting our show Plutarch enthusiasts! We're back with all new episodes fini…

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Episode 7: The Lives of Themistocles and Aristides Part 1 28:52

4y ago28:52

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We'd love to hear from you Aristides and Themistocles came of age as tyranny in Athens was coming to an end and the world's first democracy was being established! It was a brave new world and would require brave new leaders. Support the show Thanks for supporting our show Plutarch enthusiasts! We're back with all new episodes finishing up season tw…

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Episode 6: The Life of Numa Pompilius 42:54

4y ago42:54

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We'd love to hear from you Numa Pompilius, a man whom never wanted to be King, a man with a deep faith in the Gods topped off with a philosophy abhorrently against an aggression and anger driven society forever at war depriving Rome’s citizens of more Godly and more peaceful societal improvements. If it’s said, Romulus gifted the Romans with a gran…

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Episode 5: The Life of Solon 24:22

4y ago24:22

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We'd love to hear from you Solon was Athens' original wise man. Can his guidance and prudent laws help the city avoid disintegrating into civil conflict? For the life of Solon we return to Athens, where we started the podcast and learned about Theseus, the hero who the Athenians celebrate as their founder because he ended the tribute to King Minos …

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Episode 4: The Life of Romulus Part 2 35:15

4y ago35:15

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We'd love to hear from you The long awaited conclusion is here! Man or legend, you be the judge! Romulus begins the episode mounting a daring rescue of his brother Remus, kidnapped by Numitors herdsmen, and most certainly headed for personal disaster. With Remus rescued, Numitor on the throne, Romulus will rise to his legend and found Rome, her pol…

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Episode 3: The Life of Lycurgus 30:28

4y ago30:28

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We'd love to hear from you Lycurgus was the man who gave Sparta it's laws and transformed it into a polis like no other - a warrior-society which would produce the most fearsome soldiers of the Ancient World. Support the show Thanks for supporting our show Plutarch enthusiasts! We're back with all new episodes finishing up season two with Camillus …

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Episode 2: The Life of Romulus Part 1 22:37

4y ago22:37

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We'd love to hear from you In our very first episode, we covered Theseus, a legend himself, but today we get to meet the man whom most believe founded Rome, Romulus! Man or legend, you be the judge. Romulus was a towering figure to the ancient Romans who endured to bring glory to the Empire that Romulus set upon the world on April 21, 752 BC. Excer…

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Episode 1: The Life of Theseus 15:53

4+ y ago15:53

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We'd love to hear from you When Theseus arrives in Athens the city is in crisis. Can this monster-slaying, serial womanizer take his rightful place and set Athens on the path to greatness? Plutarch's Greeks and Romans is a bi-weekly podcast featuring biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans! Checkout our blog and stay …

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Episode 8: Heal From Mold Book, Chapter 3 13:06

8y ago13:06

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The main character in this brief history is Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, the physician and researcher who discovered Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome. Learn about how the death of millions of fish in a river in Maryland started a medical odyssey that led to the doorstep of a hidden modern epidemic. By the end of this chapter of the Heal From Mold b…

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Episode 7: Heal From Mold Book, Chapter 2 10:58

8y ago10:58

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Mold disease is for real! Unfortunately, the fact that the contents of a water-damaged building can harm human health is not well known and often actively opposed without any sound scientific basis for doing so. Because if quality science is given consideration, the existence of Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome is clearly real and cannot be r…

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Episode 6: Heal From Mold Book, Chapter 1 12:26

8y ago12:26

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Chapter 1 is entitled The "F Word" in Medicine: Or Why Fibromyalgia is Not That Legit." Check out the introduction in episode 2 if you want more context. In chapter 1, we discuss the limitations of a fibromyalgia diagnosis in a rational diagnostic approach to illness, particularly mold disease. A patient with chronic fatigue and a constellation of …

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Episode 5: Surviving and Thriving with Mold Disease 33:20

8y ago33:20

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Nurse Practitioner Paula Vetter is retired from clinical practice, but hard at work completing her new book. Entitled Surviving and Thriving: A Recovery Manual for Patients and Families Impacted by Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, this new addition to the CIRS literature will serve as an accessible and invaluable resource. It is a distillati…

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Episode 4: Living with Mold Disease 44:59

8y ago44:59

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There is trauma to living with chronic illness. Struggles with identity. Loss of former capabilities. Altered relations with family and friends. Physical and emotional suffering. Patti Schmidt has a unique insight into these challenges as a survivor of both Lyme disease and Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (mold disease). After recovering, Pa…

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Episode 3: Building Health 101 56:06

8y ago56:06

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The number one email I get about the podcast is not for medical advice. It's for advice about managing a sick building. There's few experts in the world more qualified to teach listeners about building health than today's guest Larry Schwartz. Larry is an Indoor Environmental Professional who has presented at the Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndr…

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Episode 2: Heal from Mold Book, Introduction 16:40

8y ago16:40

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I was on a run this morning and thinking about what to do for the next episode of this podcast. The first episode has been well-received generally, but it did not really cover the basics of what mold disease is. Then it dawned on me--give away your book! For free! To give some context, a few months ago I had started and essentially completed a fair…

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Introduction 1:06:15

8y ago1:06:15

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Welcome to the first medical podcast dedicated exclusively to mold disease or Complex Inflammatory Response Syndrome, as it is officially named. Mold disease is real. It affects millions of people. It also has an effective treatment. The discovery of mold disease and a treatment protocol is primarily the achievement of one man, a physician and rese…

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Episode 002: Natural Law - The Science of Justice 12:44

8+ y ago12:44

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Crook discusses Lysander Spooner's work on Natural Law theory as it relates to the non-agression principal and libertarianism.By No Treason

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Episode 001: Who is Lysander Spooner? 13:58

8+ y ago13:58

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Crook discusses Lysander Spooner, and his contributions to the abolitionist, secessionist, and anarchist movements.By No Treason

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10. Robert Nozick and Murray Rothbard

18y ago

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Robert Nozick, 1938-2002, was a professor at Harvard whose best known book is Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) – a libertarian answer to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice (1971). Most controversially, Nozick argued that a consistent upholding of the non-aggression principle would allow and regard as valid consensual or non-coercive enslavement contracts …

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8. John Stuart Mill, Lysander Spooner and Herbert Spencer

18y ago

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John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, was the most famous classical liberal, a British philosopher and a political economist whose concept of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. His hierarchy of pleasures in Utilitarianism was a notable idea. He felt that individual accomplishment through self-improvemen…

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9. John Rawls

18y ago

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John Rawls, 1921-2002, was the most influential figure among American philosophers. His first, and main, work, A Theory of Justice (1971), made him famous. It aimed to resolve the seemingly competing claims of freedom and equality. Two additional books, Political Liberalism and The Law of Peoples, rounded out his liberal political philosophy. His v…

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6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, influenced the French Revolution with his political philosophy and his social contract theory. The perspective of many of today’s environmentalists can be traced back to Rousseau, espousing that all degenerates in man’s hands. The Social Contract (1972), his most important work, outlines the basis for a legitimate …

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7. Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel

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Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, was called the most evil person by Ayn Rand. Kant had rules for everything. His views on religion were unorthodox. His classical republican theory was extended in the Science of Right, the first part of the Metaphysics of Morals (1797). He was very influenced by Rousseau. He felt he was modifying Plato when he sought what …

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4. Thomas Hobbes

18y ago

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Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, best known work is Leviathan (1651) which established social contract theory. His liberal thinking included: The right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order; the view that all legitimate political power must be representative; and a liberal interpretation of law…

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5. John Locke

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John Locke, 1632-1704, was the Father of Classical Liberalism. Human beings in their rationality are in God’s image. His law of nature was ethical and universal. Human preservation was tantamount. Each person has a property in himself. Property precedes government. Locke thought the mind was a blank slate, contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on …

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2. Aristotle

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Aristotle, 384-322 BC, joined Plato’s Academy in Athens at eighteen and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. He was not a citizen of Athens. His writings constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. He tutored Alexander the Great. That experience provided him with an abundance of supplies to work with. He established a …

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3. Thomas Aquinas

18y ago

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Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, was an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism. Thomas attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity. Aquinas was a prodigious writer. His best known work is Summa Theologica. His treatise on…

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1. Plato

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Intellectual historians want to look at the past to find questions of value. Greeks are considered the start of political philosophy. Plato, 428-348 BCE, is the most famous. Plato’s teacher, Socrates, was killed by Athenian democracy. Plato did not like democracy. Among these questions of value were: What is justice? What promotes the greatest happ…

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