Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry
Ex Urbe Ad Astra
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O pericle in athens, for listeners who aren't super familiar?
i've thought a lot about what makes an artistic golden age, and why it is that we seem to have these golden ages when people are always creating odd. And there's always a lot more people than you think when you superficially look at that. There are always women that are invisible when you look at it from a distance. But one of the things that you very often get with these clusters is that the money that is funding it is coming from somebody who feels that their legitimacy is slightly dodgy,. They want to use the art to sure up their claims to legitimacy. So you get that, for instance, in pericle and athens. And i won't say connected to
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