This Week on the CiRCE Podcast Network
This week, CiRCE podcasts contemplated Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, hunger for knowledge, Act I of The Merchant of Venice, the active life and the contemplative life, and more!
This week, CiRCE podcasts contemplated Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, hunger for knowledge, Act I of The Merchant of Venice, the active life and the contemplative life, ways to adapt a truly classical education to a modern system, and a new CiRCE publication. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review, wherever you like to listen to podcasts!
Close Reads
The Sun Also Rises: Q&A Episode – Join David, Heidi, and Tim as they answer a whole bunch of listener questions on a wide variety of topics, from where to go next with Hemingway to the word choices in the final sentence. It’s comprehensive, with a dash of disagreement for good measure.
The Sun Also Rises: The Final Chapters
The Sun Also Rises: Chapters 13-16
The Sun Also Rises: Chapters 8-12
Proverbial
Episode 36: Like the Wolf – This week’s proverb is unattributed: “hunger is the best sauce.”
Episode 34: Economies of Happiness
Episode 30: Stuck in the Middle
The Play’s the Thing
The Merchant of Venice: Act I – Join Tim, Heidi, and Sarah-Jane as they dive into Shakespeare’s great play, The Merchant of Venice. In this episode, they discuss the character of Portia, Shylock’s unnerving nature, a little of bit of context, and much more.
The Daily Poem
Thursday, September 3: H.D.’s “Helen”
Wednesday, September 2: Eugene Field’s “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod”
Monday, August 31: Hayden Carruth’s “Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend”
Café Scholé
Episode 11: Happiness and Contemplation – In this episode, Dr. Christopher Perrin contemplates the distinction between the active life and the contemplative life, and the necessary harmony between the two.
Ask Andrew
Ep. 61: How do I adapt classical education to the modern system? – In this episode of the Ask Andrew podcast, Andrew Kern contemplates ways of adapting a truly classical education to the modern educational system in which we are required to participate.
Ep. 60: How do I teach history classically?
FORMA
Talking the new “30 Poems to Memorize” Book – In this episode David Kern joins Heidi White to discuss a new CiRCE publication, 30 Poems to Memorize (Before Its Too Late), which David edited.
Dale Grote + Wes Callihan on Latin and the book of Acts
The Commons
Season 4, Ep. 6: The Problem of Quiet Classrooms: Technology & Isolation
Season 4, Ep. 5: Understanding Hollywood’s “War” on Family
Season 4, Ep. 4: Loving the Natural Sciences: An Interview with Gordon Wilson
Season 4, Ep. 3: Dealing with Difficult People
Season 4, Ep. 1: Classical Educators & the Church: An Interview with Dana Gage
Victoria’s World
A History of the Royal Navy (Part 2)
A History of the Royal Navy (Part 1)
Inventors & Inventions of Victorian England
The Weapons that Forged an Empire
The Greedy Queen: Eating with Queen Victoria
The Charge of the Light Brigade
British Raids in East Africa: The Story of Wituland
The Boer War: Costly Lessons for the British Empire
The Siege of Khartoum – Radical Islam Encounters the British Empire
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – A Victorian Sensation
The Battle of Rorke’s Drift – A Last Stand Against the Zulus
The Victorian Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson
A Tour of Victorian London Through the Eyes of Charles Dickens
CiRCE Staff
