Breakfast of Champions
The complete Season 1 is now out! Enter into the ultimate battle of the books as your hosts take you on a whistle-stop tour of the greatest works of literature from the beginnings of human writing to the end of the classical period.
BATTLE OF THE BOOKS!
or,
Culture for You, in which two Well-Read but inebriated GENTLEMEN serve up a True
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
For the Delectation of INTERESTED PARTIES eager to join us for Drinking and Thinking about the Best of 5,000 Years of Human Civilisation
Episodes
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001 - The Dead Library of the King of the World
Books of the Dead: The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Enuma Elish, and The Story of Sinuhe
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002 - War Horse
Ancient Epic: The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, and The Aeneid by Virgil
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003 - Keeping it in the Family
Greek Theatre: The Oresteia by Aeschylus, The Oedipus Plays by Sophocles, Medea by Euripides, and Aristophanes’ The Frogs
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004 - That's Amores!
Ancient Love Poetry: The Epilgrams of Catullus, Ars Amatoria by Ovid, and Sappho’s Fragments
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005 - Dead Poets Society
Roman Satire: The Satires of Horace and Juvenal, The Epigrams of Martial, The Pumpkinification of Claudius by Seneca, and Petronius’ The Satyricon
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006 - The Fathers of Lies
Greek History: The Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, and Xenophon’s Anabasis
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007 - Let Freedom Ring
Rhetoric: The Philippics of Demosthenes and Cicero
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008 - Masters of the World
Ancient Biography: The Anabasis of Alexander by Arian, The Gallic Wars and The Civil Wars by Caesar, Parallel Lives by Plutarch, and Suetonius’ Lives of the Twelve Caesars
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009 - Secret Histories
Roman History: The War with Hannibal by Livy, The Annals by Tacitus, and Procopius’ The Secret History
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010 - The Universal and the Particular: Drinkers & Thinkers
Ancient Philosophy: The Republic, The Symphosium, and The Apologia by Plato, The Nichomachean Ethics, Poetics, and Politics by Aristotle, and Lucretius’ On the Nature of the Universe
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010B - Symposium Superstars
Series 1 Round-up