You've heard the stories of Merlin, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table. But what facts lie behind the legends. Tune in and find out! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message

Ancient History in 15 Minutes (Give or Take a MInute) with Kenaz Filan

The Arthurian Legend: The Untold Story

We're all familiar with the Biblical story. But how does the Genesis account match up against our modern knowledge of history, science and archaeology. Tune in to find out more!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message

Sodom 2: The War of Five Armies Against Four

Our earlier plans for Carthage changed thanks to an article in The Skeptical Inquirer regarding the purported discovery of Sodom at Tall el-Hammam.   Did they really discover a city struck down by God with fire? Or is something else going on here? Tune in and find out!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message

Sodom: The Untold Story

The Greek alphabet (and, by extension, the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, were inspired by the Phoenician abjad. But in what other ways did the Phoenicians influence classical Greek culture?  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message

Phoenicians and Greeks: the Untold Story

She's the face that launched a thousand ships, the beautiful woman that started one of ancient history's ugliest wars. But how much history lies hidden behind the myths of Helen and the heroes of the Trojan War?  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message

Troy: the Untold Story

You've probably heard the story of David and Goliath. But how much do you really know about these sea marauders who threatened the early Kingdom of Israel for centuries? Listen and learn more!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message

Goliath and the Philistines: the Untold Story

The man who codified the Arthurian Legend and brought the Round Table to vivid life was also a common criminal who spent a great deal of his life in and out of prison. Thomas Malory sought the Grail at a time when chivalry was dead. Can he help us find the Grail amidst our Waste Land? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message

Notes 20 Thomas Malory and the Age of Chivalry

Despite tribulations, famines and wars the tales of King Arthur have survived and remain a potent portrait of the European oversoul. This episode examines the deep foundations upon which Camelot was built and points the way towards our own quest for the Grail. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message

Notes 19 The Grail and the Baptized Gods

Once there was a place called Camelot. Once there was a place called America. Both those places belong to the past now. Yet in Camelot's foundation there still can be found the seeds of renewal. In those stones there lies a sword which will save us and a grail which will renew our poisoned land. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message

Notes From the End of Time 18 In the Shadow of the King

The term "Cultural Marxism" is often bandied about as the Right's version of "Fascism" -- a slur that means little save "I don't like it." This episode compares and contrasts three of the largest influences on our current culture war -- Antonio Gramsci, Karl Popper and the Frankfurt School. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message

Notes 17 Gramsci, Popper and the Frankfurt School

Centuries of history, fifteen minutes of your time. How can you go wrong?

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