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One of the biggest lies we’re told is that celebrating our ancestral past is stupid, dishonest, or worse. None of that is true. “Beowulf,” the Anglo-Saxon masterpiece about England’s Germanic forefathers, is a sophisticated tale full of weirdness, complexity, and melancholy—plus, it’s an awesome romp with lots of crazy monsters and sick fights. In this episode of “Young Heretics,” Spencer Klavan uncovers the poem’s greatness.
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Big fan of these podcasts, even moreso than the ones by that other Klavan guy on this site. (Have you met him? I think he has more ‘e’s in his last name.)Â
In case you’re feeling like you’re not doing enough work I’ve got just the thing for you. Because I am a giant nerd I made a joke about never having read the Nicomachean Ethics (and also about spelling it right the first time!), and then I went looking for an online copy. Almost all the texts you’ve been covering are old enough that they’re in the public domain (not sure about T. S. Elliot), but not all the translations will be. You’ve commented before on some translations being preferable to others, could you also point out when one of these things is in the public domain (and hence could probably be found on Project Gutenberg or LibriVox or something similar)?Â
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to actually listen to this episode.Â
Excellent podcast as usual. Thank you for the overview of Beowulf and for your wonderful defense of Western Civilization.