Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry
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What Makes an Artistic Golden Age?
O pericle in athens, for listeners who aren't super familiar? Well, that's when we have all of the greek tragedy and greek comedy that survives. And it was a sort of er theatrical golden age. O venice is an age of great innovation in this very narrow space on this particular island. The classic one be the rise of the carolingian dynasty in early mediaeval francead both historical and historical and literary. Ah, and then, of course, there's the whole italian renaissance, which i always like to joke didn't happen. But fact, there isn't a series of moments of artistic innovation that then has been recognized as kind of a
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