The Humanitarium: Recent Episodes
Andrew Bennett
A podcast that tries to answer the question "What is the deal with human beings?" Approaches to this question include historical, anthropological, cultural, and physiological.
In this episode we discuss why Emperor Asoka is worth talking about; his legacy in the world today, and what we can learn about the ways that historians do history.
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First part in a multipart series about the Mauryan emperor Asoka, Beloved of the Gods - and about the process of remembering and re-remebering history.
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