New Humanists
Hosted by Jonathan and Ryan · Ancient Language Institute
4.9from 80 ratings
- 118
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 80
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 13M
- YouTube views
About New Humanists
Join the hosts of New Humanists and founders of the Ancient Language Institute, Jonathan Roberts and Ryan Hammill, on their quest to discover what a renewed humanism looks like for the modern world. The Ancient Language Institute is an online language school and think tank, dedicated to changing the way ancient languages are taught.
- Publisher
- Ancient Language Institute
- Category
- education · education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jun 2021
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 118 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Thymos, feat. Ian Dagg | Episode CXVIII
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Erotics and Harmonics, feat. Patrick Downey | Episode CXVII
5 Aug 2026
The Ring of Gyges and the City of Pigs, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CXVI
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Thymos, feat. Ian Dagg | Episode CXVIII
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] These should be purple. It's the finest part of the image. And the eyes are the finest part of the image. They should get the finest color, namely purple. And Socrates is like, oh, no, no, no. Beauty is not about, you know, just painting. slapping nice things on there it's about creating this kind of harmonious thing and the black for the eyes actually works with the color scheme i'm doing is that what he's saying yes and that if he painted the eyes purple it might make the eyes purple might be the most beautiful color right but if purple eyes didn't fit with the rest of the statue um then it would sort of detract from the statue as a whole And so in that sense, the eyes correspond to the auxiliaries or the guardians insofar as if their goal was to make those people as happy as possible, then that would correspond to painting the eyes purple, but at the detraction of the statue or at the detraction of the city. […]
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- Ian Dagg
- Patrick Downey
- Colin Redemer
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- YouTube views
- 12,701,894
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 52 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 28 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100
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- Quality
- 53
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 85
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Jonathan and Ryan host the show. Published by Ancient Language Institute.
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