The Characters Of Theophrastus by Theophrastus ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

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08/21/23

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The Characters Of Theophrastus by Theophrastus audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Written in the lively streets and marketplaces of classical Athens, The Characters offers a gallery of sharply observed human types that still feel familiar today. Attributed to Theophrastus, successor to Aristotle, this compact classic presents a sequence of brief sketches, each one isolating a single vice, folly, or social habit and then showing how it plays out in daily life. You will meet the Flatterer who lives by borrowed praise, the Gossip who cannot keep a confidence, the Superstitious Man who reads omens into every coincidence, the Boor who misses every cue, and many more. Rather than telling a continuous story, the book builds its power through accumulation: scene by scene, it invites listeners to recognize patterns of behavior in neighbors, leaders, friends, and themselves. At once ethical inquiry and social satire, these portraits ask what makes a person trustworthy, civic minded, and self controlled, and what happens when small failings harden into a way of life. The result is a witty, unsettling mirror held up to human nature across time.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:34:18) Chapter 01

(00:53:06) Chapter 02

(01:11:42) Chapter 03

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The Brothers by Terence ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

August 21, 2023

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The Brothers by Terence audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In The Brothers (Adelphoe), Terence sets a sharply observed domestic comedy in Athens where two very different men try to raise the next generation. Demea is severe, hardworking, and convinced that discipline is the only path to virtue. His brother Micio is relaxed, affluent, and proud of the trust-based freedom he gives his adopted son, Aeschinus. When a scandal erupts in the city and Aeschinus is blamed for behavior that looks reckless and cruel, the brothers' philosophies collide in public and in private. As rumors spread and tempers flare, Demea becomes certain that leniency has bred corruption, while Micio insists that harshness only teaches young men to lie. Meanwhile, the quieter Ctesipho, Demea's natural son raised under strict rules, is pulled into the same tangle of desire, loyalty, and fear of exposure. Through quick dialogue, clever servants, and anxious lovers, Terence turns family conflict into a debate about love, authority, and what it means to truly know your children.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:14:33) Chapter 2

(00:33:00) Chapter 3

(00:55:33) Chapter 4

(01:21:47) Chapter 5

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Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding ~ Full Audiobook [history]

August 22, 2023

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265m

Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding audiobook.

Genre: history

Written as a scholarly essay, Elizabethan Demonology investigates what educated and ordinary people in England believed about devils, witches, possession, and unseen spiritual forces during the Reformation and the decades that followed. Thomas Alfred Spalding argues that to read Elizabethan drama clearly, especially the plays of William Shakespeare, modern readers must recover the religious assumptions and folk ideas that shaped daily life and public imagination. Moving between theology, popular superstition, and literary evidence, Spalding traces how older pagan or foreign gods were reinterpreted as lesser spirits, how fear of diabolic agency found support in sermons and pamphlets, and how these convictions surfaced on the stage in vivid scenes of temptation, prophecy, and haunting. Along the way he pays particular attention to Shakespeare's handling of the supernatural, using close readings to show how an audience that took demons seriously would have heard certain words, symbols, and moral stakes differently than we do today. Expanded from papers first delivered to the New Shakespeare Society, this compact work is both a window into early modern belief and a guide for readers who want to understand why the devil felt so real in Elizabethan literature. citeturn0search1turn0search7turn0search0

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:09) Chapter 02

(00:42:53) Chapter 03

(01:01:28) Chapter 04

(01:26:45) Chapter 05

(01:53:36) Chapter 06

(02:18:31) Chapter 07

(02:44:28) Chapter 08

(02:59:38) Chapter 09

(03:25:28) Chapter 10