Cost of Glory
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20 - On Having Even More Friends
Cost of Glory
01/04/22 • 7 min
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Coming back to Plutarch's essay on having many friends, with remarks from Zeuxis, Chilon, and Thucydides
98 - Gallic Wars 8: Finale
Cost of Glory
10/21/24 • 37 min
Caesar ties all loose ends in his Gallic Campaign, in part 8, the final episode of our series on Caesar’s masterwork of psychology, strategy, and propaganda: On the Gallic War (De Bello Gallico).
This is a world-history making story (the conquest of what’s now modern France), told by a world-history making storyteller.
Caesar entered Gaul as a mere politician. He returned 9 years later as a conqueror - and an enemy of the state. He tells how it all happened with his own pen.
In this episode:
- Final skirmishes with the Bituriges and the Carnutes
- Siege of a hill-fort, and Caesar takes arms (literally)
- Conclusion of a bloody chapter, and some takeaways
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89 - A Manual for Greatness — with Johnny Burtka
Cost of Glory
06/07/24 • 61 min
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An interview with Johnny Burtka, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He is a graduate of Hillsdale College, and his most recent book is titled “Gateway to Statesmanship—Selections from Xenophon to Churchill”.
In this episode:
- The Mirrors for Princes tradition
- Obstacles as a Ladder to Greatness
- The Potency of Xenophon’s ‘Education of Cyrus’
- The Leadership Qualities of Cyrus
- The Complex Enduring Power of Cicero’s ‘On Duties’
- Cultivating Greatness of Soul and the Magnitudo Animi of Churchill
- Machiavelli as Practitioner, not Political Philosopher
- Where should an 18-year old dedicate himself to?
- Washington’s Farewell Address as a Beautiful Political Text
Books Mentioned:
- Gateway to Statesmanship—Selections from Xenophon to Churchill by Johnny Burtka
- Education of Cyrus by Xenophon
- On Duties by Cicero
- The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni
- Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
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87 - Pursuing Greatness — with Pano Kanelos
Cost of Glory
05/22/24 • 52 min
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An interview with Pano Kanelos, the founding president of the University of Austin and the former President of St. John’s College, Annapolis.
In this episode:
- How founding a university is like running a diner
- The flourishing of American universities in the 19th century
- How old philosophers were men of action
- The Intellectual Foundations Program at UATX
- How The Brothers Karamazov explains our current moment
- Pursuing Greatness by finding your North Star
- Plutarch on self-reflection
- Why Heroes and Truth-tellers are needed when forming communities
- Analyzing the opening scene from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
82 - How to Tell a Flatterer From a Friend
Cost of Glory
03/01/24 • 32 min
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...Plutarch offers some advice on how to choose your friends, and how to be a good one. Examples include Alexander the Great, Cato, Carneades, Plato, Dionysius the Tyrant, and more.
(Here depicted: the monument of Philopappus in Athens, to whom Plutarch's essay is dedicated)
81 - Spartacus — with Barry Strauss
Cost of Glory
02/14/24 • 52 min
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An interview with Barry Strauss, Spartacus expert, and author of The Spartacus War
In this episode:
-How Spartacus' Slave revolt almost failed in its early stages
-Overcoming short term thinking as a leader
-Spartacus' influence on modern leaders
80 - The Best Stoic Sentences
Cost of Glory
01/31/24 • 32 min
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A method for reading that can transform your life.
W/ help from Dana Gioia, California Poet Laureate, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts 2003-2009.
Get his new book Sentences from Seneca, here!
Some Sources:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_108
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Sallust/Bellum_Jugurthinum/3*.html
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Sayings_of_Spartans*/main.html
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Sayings_of_Spartans*/Agesilaus.html
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Agesilaus*.html
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lysander*.html
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Sertorius*.html
79 - Spencer Klavan: Why Achilles Plays the Lyre
Cost of Glory
01/18/24 • 61 min
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Why does Achilles, slaughterer of men, play the lyre? A conversation with Spencer Klavan of the Young Heretics podcast.
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In this conversation, we discuss:
-Spencer & Alex's common ground training as classicists
-How one gets into these ancient books in the first place
-The theory of "Art for Art's Sake": Why it's interesting, plausible, and wrong.
-Epic heroes singing Epic Poetry
-Great books for busy dads
And much, much more...
78 - Lucullus III: Betrayal
Cost of Glory
01/03/24 • 72 min
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The fall and political struggles of the great Lucullus, rival of Pompey and Caesar.
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Cicero's Pro Archia
https://www.attalus.org/cicero/archias.html
People in this episode:
Mithridates, King of Pontus
Tigranes, King of Armenia
Clodius, the Brother in Law
Pompey
Clodia, the Bad Wife
Servilia, also a Bad Wife
Cato the Younger
Cicero
Caesar
Places in this episode:
Tigranokert
Artaxata
Nisibis
Pontus
Armenia
Rome
85 - Pompey III: Fields of Pharsalus
Cost of Glory
04/30/24 • 119 min
Life of Pompey Part 3 of 3: Pompey's final rise to the heights of Roman power, his war with his friend Julius Caesar, and his final downfall.
People:
(M. Tullius) Cicero
(Titus Pomponius) Atticus
C. Julius Caesar
Cn. Pompeius Magnus (Pompey)
Julia, Caesar's Daughter
(M. Licinius) Crassus
(L. Domitius) Ahenobarbus - Optimate Stalwart (Cos. 54)
(M. Porcius) Cato "The Younger" - the Stoic
(M. Calpurnius) Bibulus - Cos. 59
P. Clodius Pulcher - Populist Thug lord
(T. Annius) Milo - Pompey's Thug lord
M. Caelius (Rufus) - Cicero's young political analyst friend
Publius Licinius Crassus - The Richest Man's Son
Cornelia - Pompey's final wife
(Q. Caecilius) Metellus (Pius) Scipio - Pompey's new Father in Law
Aulus Gabinius - Pompey's friend, exiled after Egyptian expedition
Ptolemy XII Auletes ("The Piper") - exiled king of Egypt
(C. Scribonius) Curio - Optimate turncoat, Caesar's tribune
M. Antonius (Mark Antony)
M. Claudius Marcellus - Optimate stalwart (Cos 51)
C. Claudius Marcellus - Optimate stalwart (Cos. 50, cousin of Cos. 51)
M. Favonius - "Stamp, Pompey!" Senator
Themistocles - Athenian statesman
Camillus - 4th c. BC Roman statesman
T. Labienus - Caesar's general, deserted to Pompey
(M. Junius) Brutus - Future Conspirator
Theophanes of Mytilene - the Historian
Crassianus - Caesar's centurion at Pharsalus
Cratippus of Pergamon - Philosopher at Mytilene
Ptolemy XIII - Boy king of Egypt
Potheinus - Ptolemy XIII's Eunuch
Achillas - Ptolemy XIII's General
Theodotus - Ptolemy XIII's Rhetoric Teacher
Philippus - Pompey's freedman
Places:
The Roman Forum
The Tiber River
Parthia
Carrhae (Battle of) - in Mesopotamia (Parthian Empire)
Gaul (Mod. France)
Pompey's Theater ("Temple of Venus")
Alesia (Battle of) - in Gaul
Naples (Neapolis)
Ravenna (N. Italy, "Cisalpine Gaul" then)
Rubicon River
Ariminum (Rimini)
Corfinium - Italian town in the Apennines
Brundisium - Eastern Port in Italy
Dyrrhachium (Mod. Durrës) - in Epirus (Rom. province of Macedonia)
Thessaly - large plain in central Greece
Pharsalus - town in Thessaly
Tempē - Valley in Thessaly
Mytilene - City on island of Lesbos
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How many episodes does Cost of Glory have?
Cost of Glory currently has 101 episodes available.
What topics does Cost of Glory cover?
The podcast is about Success, Biography, Leadership, History, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education, Ancient Greece, Business and Ancient History.
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The episode title '90 - Heroes are Dangerous: Rousseau & Nietzsche with Johnathan Bi' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Cost of Glory is 45 minutes.
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Episodes of Cost of Glory are typically released every 12 days, 19 hours.
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The first episode of Cost of Glory was released on Aug 6, 2021.
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