Isn’t it better to have no possessions at all than to have millions of them and then lose them? According to ancient Cynic philosophy: Absolutely Yes! I’ve been discussing how this view comes to be embodied in Lucian’ of Samosata’s humorous dialogue Downward Journey, about a rich tyrant who abused his power and wealth and then ended up completely miserable in the afterlife. I begin here with the paragraph that ended the last post, to provide a bit of context for the humorous passage that follows. (All this is taken from my book Journeys to Heaven and Hell, with Yale University Press, due out in April) Read by Petra Ortiz
Bart explains how scribes functioned as readers--in a radical sense. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
It’s always a pleasure to do an interview with someone who knows a lot about the topic and asks the right questions. This wide-ranging...
The first of three posts in which Bart explains how he came to write Misquoting Jesus. Read by Steve McCabe.