Ep. 128: A Government of Laws
Young Heretics
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The Myth of Athens
The first thing that happens, you know, sort of skip ahead a little bit, we get Theseus. Now Theseus is like how to put it. I mean, you know how Superman stands for truth, justice in the American way? He's what we dream that we are as a nation or what we aspire to be. And this is Theseus for Athens. In between Eric Phonius and Theseus, we have a geus, who's another one of these early mythological kings,. So he says to the Oracle of Delphi, which is a kind of mainstay of all of these stories. She says, do not loosen the bulging mouth of the wineskin
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