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The Presocratics
(Episodes 1-14)

1 - Everything is Full of Gods: Thales

2 - Infinity and Beyond: Anaximander and Anaximenes

3 - Created In Our Image: Xenophanes Against Greek Religion

4 - The Man With The Golden Thigh: Pythagoras

5 - Old Man River: Heraclitus

6 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus

7 - The Road Less Traveled: Parmenides

8 - You Can't Get There From Here: Zeno and Melissus

9 - The Final Cut: Democritus and Leucippus

10 - Mind Over Mixture: Anaxagoras

11 - All You Need is Love, and Five Other Things: Empedocles

12 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics

13 - Good Humor Men: the Hippocratics

14 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger: the Sophists

Socrates and Plato
(Episodes 15 - 33)

15 - Socrates without Plato: the Accounts of Aristophanes and Xenophon

16 - Method Man: Plato's Socrates

17 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates

18 - In Dialogue: the Life and Works of Plato

19 - Know Thyself: Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues

20 - Virtue Meets its Match: Plato's Gorgias

21 - We Don't Need No Education: Plato's Meno

22 - I Know, Because the Caged Bird Sings: Plato's Theaetetus

23 - MM McCabe on Knowledge in Plato

24 - Famous Last Words: Plato's Phaedo

25 - Soul and the City: Plato's Political Philosophy

26 - Ain't No Sunshine: The Cave Allegory of Plato's Republic

27 - Second Thoughts: Plato's Parmenides and the Forms

28 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist

29 - What's in a Name? Plato's Cratylus

30 - A Likely Story: Plato's Timaeus

31 - Wings of Desire: Plato's Erotic Dialogues

32 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love

33 - Last Judgments: Plato, Poetry and Myth

Aristotle
(Episodes 34 - 51)

34 - Mr. Know It All: Aristotle's Life And Works

35 - The Philosopher's Toolkit: Aristotle's Logical Works

36 - A Principled Stand: Aristotle's Epistemology

37 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method

38 - Down to Earth: Aristotle on Substance

39 - Form and Function: Aristotle's Four Causes

40 - Let's Get Physical: Aristotle's Natural Philosophy

41 - Richard Sorabji on Time and Eternity in Aristotle

42 - Soul Power: Aristotle's De Anima

43 - Classified Information: Aristotle's Biology

44 - The Goldilocks Theory: Aristotle's Ethics

45 - The Second Self: Aristotle On Pleasure And Friendship

46 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics

47 - God Only Knows: Aristotle on Mind and God

48 - Constitutional Conventions: Aristotle's Political Philosophy

49 - Stage Directions: Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics

50 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato

51- The Next Generation: the Followers of Plato and Aristotle

Later Antiquity

Hellenistic
(Episodes 52 - 76)

52 - Fighting Over Socrates: the Hellenistic Schools

53 - Beware of the Philosopher: the Cynics

54 - Instant Gratification: the Cyrenaics

55 - The Constant Gardener: Epicurus and his Principles

56 - Am I Bothered?: Epicurean Ethics

57 - Nothing to Fear: Epicureans on Death and the Gods

58 - Reaping the Harvest: Lucretius

59 - James Warren on Epicureanism

60 - Walking on Eggshells: the Stoics on Logic

61 - Nobody’s Perfect: the Stoics on Knowledge

62 - We Didn’t Start the Fire: the Stoics on Nature

63 - Like a Rolling Stone: Stoic Ethics

64 - David Sedley on Stoicism

65 - Anger Management: Seneca

66 - You Can Chain My Leg: Epictetus

67 - The Philosopher King: Marcus Aurelius

68 - John Sellars on the Roman Stoics

69 - Beyond Belief: Pyrrho and Skepticism

70 - The Know Nothing Party: the Skeptical Academy

71 - Rhetorical Questions: Cicero

72 - Raphael Woolf on Cicero

73 - Healthy Skepticism: Sextus Empiricus

74 - Tony Long on the Self in Hellenistic Philosophy

75 - The Joy of Sects: Ancient Medicine and Philosophy

76 - R.J. Hankinson on Galen

Late Antiquity
(Episodes 77 - 100)

77 - Caesarian Section: Philosophy in the Roman Empire

78 - Middle Men: the Platonic Revival

79 - To the Lighthouse: Philo of Alexandria

80 - Delphic Utterances: Plutarch

81 - Jan Opsomer on Middle Platonism

82 - Lost and Found: Aristotelianism after Aristotle

83 - Not Written in Stone: Alexander of Aphrodisias

84 - Silver Tongues in Golden Mouths: Rhetoric and Ancient Philosophy

85 - Sky Writing: Astronomy, Astrology, and Philosophy

86 - Serafina Cuomo on Ancient Mathematics

87 - A God is My Co-Pilot: the Life and Works of Plotinus

88 - Simplicity Itself: Plotinus on the One and Intellect

89 - On the Horizon: Plotinus on Soul

90 - A Decorated Corpse: Plotinus on Matter and Evil

91 - James Wilberding on Nature and Neoplatonism

92 - King of Animals: Porphyry

93 - Pythagorean Theorems: Iamblichus

94 - The Platonic Successor: Proclus

95 - Anne Sheppard on Ancient Aesthetics

96 - Dominic O'Meara on Neoplatonism

97 - A Tale of Two Cities: The Last Pagan Philosophers

98 - For a Limited Time Only: John Philoponus

99 - Richard Sorabji on the Commentators

100 - Michael Trapp and Caroline Humfress on Ancient Culture and Philosophy

Ancient Christianity
(Episodes 101 - 119)

101 - Father Figures: Introduction to Ancient Christian Philosophy

102 - Please Accept Our Apologies: the Greek Church Fathers

103 - Fall and Rise: Origen

104 - Let's Talk Turkey: the Cappadocians

105 - Naming the Nameless: the Pseudo-Dionysius

106 - Double or Nothing: Maximus the Confessor

107 - Practice Makes Perfect: Christian Asceticism

108 - George Boys-Stones on the Greek Church Fathers

109 - Spreading the Word: the Latin Church Fathers

110 - Life and Time: Augustine's Confessions

111 - Papa Don't Teach: Augustine on Language

112 - Help Wanted: Augustine on Freedom

113 - Heaven and Earth: Augustine’s City of God

114 - Sarah Byers on Augustine's Ethics

115 - Me, Myself and I: Augustine on Mind and Memory

116 - Charles Brittain on Augustine's "On the Trinity"

117 - Born Again: Latin Platonism

118 - Fate, Hope and Clarity: Boethius

119 - John Marenbon on Boethius

120 - The Straight Path: Philosophy in the Islamic World

121 - This is a Test: the Mu'tazilites

122 - Founded in Translation: From Greek to Syriac and Arabic

123 - Philosopher of the Arabs: al-Kindī

124 - The Chosen Ones: Judaism and Philosophy

125 - Reasoned Belief: Saadia Gaon

126 - High Five: al-Rāzī

127 - Peter E Pormann on Medicine in the Islamic World

128 - Aristotelian Society: the Baghdad School

129 - The Second Master: al-Fārābī