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Does anyone here listen to or has anyone here listened to the "Literature and History" podcast? I liked how it started out, explored the world-views of ancient authors and storytellers as glanced from the texts, and while the podcaster sometimes went out of his way to condemn the ancients for their unenlightened ways, it was generally limited and counterbalanced by his active attempts to understand them. Following his episodes on pre-biblical literature and Homer, I decided to back him on Patreon. The episodes on the Old Testament were a bit of a slog because of how repetitiously he called out the Hebrews for their lack of modern values. But by episode 25 or so it got out entirely of hand, and the entire 3 hours I spent expecting to have the first two parts of the Orestian trilogy laid out for me were one long feminist screed.
So my question is - does it get better or does it get worse in the following episodes? Or am I seeing it wrong altogether?
For anyone interested, you can listen to the (non-special) episodes or read the scripts here: https://literatureandhistory.com/
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