The Melian Dialogue: Recent Episodes
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A project exploring the literature of war from antiquity to modernity focusing on how individuals and societies have understood conflict over time.
What differentiates war crimes from regular acts of war? Is it worth dying in battle when you can live a long life in peace? Can Clio name one single pop culture reference?
The nature of Justice in war, and the struggle between Justice and Duty. Actually a mostly serious conversation for once. I'm just as surprised this has made it to 5 episodes as you are, trust me.
The first combat of The Iliad, a discussion of the agency of Helen in the Trojan War, and how Athena was a feminist.
Sing, O Taylor Swift, the Rage of Achilles son of Peleus Sing. I swear to God this also includes a serious discussion of War. This has gone so far off the rails already.
We finish the second half of The Epic of Gilgamesh by discussing death and what the point of a legacy is when you have the knowledge of your own mortality. Also if Tarzan is an adaptation of Gilgamesh.
In the first episode of The Melian Dialogue, we cover the themes of mythological creation of narratives in conflict, and the nature of self-individuation through violent conflict in the first half of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
First episode of The Melian Dialogue exploring the themes of the formation of identity through conflict, and the nature of mythmaking in war throughout the first half of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
An exploration of the themes of identity and struggle in the first 6 books of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and their relationship to armed conflict.