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Man In The Arena Archives
Приєднався 10 сер 2015
An archive containing the work and lives of great men. From antiquity to modernity, these virile gentlemen will inspire you to be better in your own lives.
If you have time, please visit my blog, Do You Even Psychedelic?, an artistic blog which inspects literature, art, music, and philosophy.
www.doyouevenpsychedelic.blogspot.co.uk
Created, compiled, and maintained by Daniel Luke Sharman.
If you have time, please visit my blog, Do You Even Psychedelic?, an artistic blog which inspects literature, art, music, and philosophy.
www.doyouevenpsychedelic.blogspot.co.uk
Created, compiled, and maintained by Daniel Luke Sharman.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (In Our Time, 13/11/14)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Victorian engineer responsible for bridges, tunnels and railways still in use today more than 150 years after they were built. Brunel represented the cutting edge of technological innovation in Victorian Britain, and his life gives us a window onto the social changes that accompanied the Industrial Revolution. Yet his work was not always successful, and his innovative approach to engineering projects was often greeted with suspicion from investors.
Guests:
Julia Elton, former President of the Newcomen Society for the History of Engineering and Technology
Ben Marsden, Senior Lecturer in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen
Crosbie Smith, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Kent
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
Guests:
Julia Elton, former President of the Newcomen Society for the History of Engineering and Technology
Ben Marsden, Senior Lecturer in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen
Crosbie Smith, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Kent
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
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Julius Caesar (In Our Time, 2/10/14)
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life, work and reputation of Julius Caesar. Famously assassinated as he entered the Roman senate on the Ides of March, 44 BC, Caesar was an inspirational general who conquered much of Europe. He was a ruthless and canny politician who became dictator of Rome, and wrote The Gallic Wars, one of the most admired and studied works of Latin literature. Shakesp...
Thucydides (In Our Time, 29/1/15)
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Discussing the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. In the fifth century BC Thucydides wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War, an account of a conflict in which he had himself taken part. This work is now seen as one of the first great masterpieces of history writing, a book which influenced writers for centuries afterwards. Thucydides was arguably the first historian to make a conscious att...
Rabindranath Tagore (In Our Time, 7/5/15)
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Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. He has been called one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century and the greatest poet India has ever produced. His Nobel followed publication of Gitanjali, his English version of some of his Bengali poems. WB Yeats and Ezra Pound were great supporters. Tagore was born in Calcutta in 1861 and educated part...
Man was a machine, working 19-20 hrs a day 7 days a week..He achieved so much in a short life..Genius
Thanks!
AND, Thucydides, The General, said, Peracleze reply to his upcoming marriage, reply, said,"die rather....."...
AHH this takes me back to the old B B C
Great series
an exposition of Lord Bragg's great man theory of history is on full display. Suffice it to say that without the legions at his back Gaius Julius would have been just another bridge crosser. Those legions made him the dictator he became, and also, arguably, led to his early demise.
So then a military democracy as in the later declining empire is commensurate with Caesar? What of the state of the French army before Napoleon took charge? Or the course of the Punic wars before Cornelius Scipio gained command? Is there no discernable difference between the position of Britain during the regime of Baldwin and Chamberlain as opposed to Churchill? A history based purely of the feats of "great men " as you put it may be fallacious. But equally fallacious is the history which says that individuals play not part in the course of history
It's a mix of things. In the hands of other men, the Legions wouldn't have done what they did. But at the same time, without them, Caesar would have achieved nothing. Everything is connected. A great leader is hugely important for organising and directing large groups towards a goal. You can see that in countless examples of good leadership overcoming numbers in many battles. But at the same time, had Caesar lived in a different time and place his life would have been very different. Many other impressive figures may have achieved so much more, were it not for their circumstances.
The Mob would never accomplish anything without the leadership of Great Men . Countless examples. Vox Populi : Vox Rindvieh. As Bismarck so eloquently phrased it.
Greeks fighting Greeks: that’s how we roll.
Will USA and China fall into the Thucydides trap? ua-cam.com/video/zJgFvd1AHQg/v-deo.html
Melvyn in light hearted mood this morning ? I wonder if he'll squeeze in his usual mention of Herodotus ?
Here bcz of IELTS PREP
Athens created the first NATO...so Sparta -Russia had to do something about it😀
Thucydides was a Laconaphile.He spent several years in Sparta and was a great admirer of the Spartan socio/political system. Thank you for putting this up. MITAA.😄👍👍
Thucydides was an Athenian general. He says so in the very first line of his work
@@RenatusChristoph I'm very aware he was Athenian but when I say Spartanite I meaned an admirer of Sparta and its political system.When he fell out of favour in Athens which was very easy to do he stayed in Sparta for a couple of years.I understand that my use of the word Spartanite threw you.i should have said Laconaphile!😁👍
@@RenatusChristoph I've rectified it lol.Besides since when have you ever heard anyone from Sparta referred to as a Spartanite???🤣😒
Enough Already 👂Listen 💭💭💭
lovely content, voice and knowledge. and im a sucker for ancient greece =)
He was one of the best leader & greatest of them.
why don't they answer the bloody question
Obviously you have very little experience of academics / philosophers : ' on the one hand....blah, blah , ....on the other... blah , blah....'.
Βen Usher-Barrass - What question?
We proud of Netaji , ra bindranath tagore and vivekanda
I am looking for an English documentary on Him in an audio visual way, like those made on Newton, Einstein and others . I am strongly proponent of the idea , Ravindra Nath was truly a global citizen, in-spite of being an Indian from Bengal province; this very fact was very much vindicated by his unified motive driven collective deeds towards India's freedom movements and having a strong connections with scholars from global circles across many fields . He infact tried to invoke his global vision atleast through the two universities RavindraBharati and VisvaBharati .
DEU TO RONOMY THU CYDIDES DEI TRIUM HELIUM GARDEN OF DE LIGHT HELIOS HELIOPOLIS
what does this mean
@@tejasaralere5418 Showing the Correlation between Terms. This, The Proof, and Belief are REAL. Not just because someone says so, because it is COSMIC
Nurse !!! His medication is wearing off again ! !
@@tejasaralere5418 There's a Common Motif, The Trojan War = The Judgement of Paris (Ares vs CADMUS) at The Wedding of Zeus = The Bible <Septuagint written 287 B.C. KJV 1611, New Testament = Alexander The Great Campaign> Thus, connects with Egyptian History (After War They fled to Egypt She married Amenhotep III killed in battle against Achilles TutMoses took over Helen & Aryan Aryan = Argon = Argos, Jason) Helen became Nefertiti after Thebes conquered The Spartans Aeneas Flees to King Latino, creation of The Roman Empire Ptolemaic Period Constantine Pope Shift The Great American Eclipse 2017 & 2024, Crossroad ILLINOIS = Elysia Fields = Paradise One Million Years Later The Full Reason Why End Times Prophecy happening Now
@@2msvalkyrie529 LOL
USED TO BE CALLED SPADES NOW LEARNED WHY RED IS BIGGER, THAN BLACK WHICH IS THE NAME OF THE GAME JUST ADD THU CYDIDES (DEU CES)
Ceasar was a genocidal maniac. The Senate almost charged him with war crimes.
You utter muppet
He did what he did. Someone has to lead
You should do more content. :)
I see none of those things coming to haunt us again... Is it just me or does history seem to repeat itself over and over and over again
It's because the same type of turds always float to the top in quest of power and ownership, only the vicissitudes of predicament and individual proclivity over the ages give it a different shade
Marcus Aurelius : " The same scenes are played out over and over : it is only the actors who change. "
The conversationalists here make referece to what Thucydides called "the human thing" - the reason why these patterns are universal and Thucydides' account of war and the reasons for it is remains so relevant.
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana
Typical liberal view of ancient times with present day values. You all need to look feather back in time and you would know ancient wars were all about punishment and stopping retributions from coming back on the conqueror.
Yep Tom Holland explains this in Dominion ... they are applying a fundamentally Christian value system to JC
thanks James
Love the upper-class snooty British accents. They are really easy to understand, despite the hyperbolic emotional emphases. Kinda Shakespearian in how they present. I guess they learn this in British upper-class school.
Not really, they just speak properly.
Well it is kinda their language. Lol
I guarantee you these guys went to the more prestigious colleges . Absolutely nothing wrong with that.I admire fellow Brits who use our language properly.
If they did it in Newcastle accent you probably wouldn't understand a word. Also , speaking clearly and using long words is nothing to do with being ' Posh ' ! It's mainly thanks to left liberal inspired class hatred that speaking properly is something to be ashamed of. ' innit..mate ? Know wot I mean..?
And yours just expressed with a different algebra@@korionterivers9995
Ave Caesar.
Fine man indeed
Brunel was a giant talent who broke the rules of placid design. Truly a hero and a major player in the modernization of Western civilization.
Eh? He was an engineer, not really a designer.