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ML166: Armand D'Angour on Socrates in Love, Reviving The Classics and Rediscovering Ancient Music
Manage episode 288902089 series 1129361
Armand D’Angour is a Professor of Classics at Oxford University, a musician and the author of several books, including his latest Socrates in Love.
In this episode we discuss:- Armand's revisionist biography of Socrates including an account of the woman who helped him shape his ideas on love - The value of reviving ancient music and the methods for doing so- What the Greeks’ attitude to the new can teach us about technology in the modern world This was a wonderful conversation that will give you fresh insight into the foundations of Western philosophy and the connections between music and the classics.
204 episodes
Manage episode 288902089 series 1129361
Armand D’Angour is a Professor of Classics at Oxford University, a musician and the author of several books, including his latest Socrates in Love.
In this episode we discuss:- Armand's revisionist biography of Socrates including an account of the woman who helped him shape his ideas on love - The value of reviving ancient music and the methods for doing so- What the Greeks’ attitude to the new can teach us about technology in the modern world This was a wonderful conversation that will give you fresh insight into the foundations of Western philosophy and the connections between music and the classics.
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