Breakfast of Champions

Listen to our latest episode: That’s Amores! — where we explore the earliest Western love poetry. Our battle this episode is between the often-obscene Epigrams of Catullus, the Ars Amatoria by Ovid, and the fragmentary works of the original Lesbian, Sappho...

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS!

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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

  • 001 The Dead Library

    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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Coming soon in Season 1:

  • 004 - That's Amores!

    Ancient Love Poetry: The Epigrams of Catullus, Ars Amatoria by Ovid, and Sappho's Fragments

  • 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

  • 006 - The Fathers of Lies

    Greek History: The Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, and Xenophon's Anabasis

  • 007 - Let Freedom Ring

    Rhetoric: The Philippics of Demosthenes and Cicero

  • 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

  • 009 - Secret Histories

    Roman History: The War with Hannibal by Livy, The Annals by Tacitus, and Procopius' The Secret History

  • 010 - The Universal and the Particular: Drinkers & Thinkers

    Ancient Philosophy: The Republic, The Symposium, and The Apologia by Plato, The Nichomachean Ethics, Poetics, and Politics by Aristotle, and Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe

  • 010B - Symposium of Superstars

    Series 1 Round-up