Christians Reading Classics (Nadya Williams)
It is time Christians rediscovered the benefits of reading the great works of Greco-Roman classical literature as Christians.
Can Christians today read the Greco-Roman pagan classics for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues? Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal “Yes!”
In twenty short videos, Williams introduces the viewers to ancient authors and their key works. She offers three interrelated reasons for Christians to read the pagan classics: to be surprised by joy, to understand the world of the Bible and the earliest Christians, and for character formation.
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S0: Why Should Christians Read the Classics? (Christians Reading Classics)
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S1: Homer and Glory Before the Foundation (Christians Reading Classics)
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S2: Hesiod and the Quest for the Meaning of Life (Christians Reading Classics)
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S3: Pindar and Seeking Eternal Glory (Christians Reading Classics)
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S4: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Writing Eternity (Christians Reading Classics)
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S5: Aeschylus & the Formation of Virtuous Citizens (Christians Reading Classics)
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S6: Sophocles Plays Clue (Christians Reading Classics)
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S7: Aristophanes and Euripides Remember the Ladies (Christians Reading Classics)
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S8: Plato and Aristotle Teach Civics (Christians Reading Classics)
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S9: The Athenian Forensic Speechwriters (Christians Reading Classics)
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S10: How to Do Anything in the Ancient World (Christians Reading Classics)
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S11: Cicero, Caesar, and Political Rhetoric (Christians Reading Classics)
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S12: Ovid and the Rhetoric of Love (Christians Reading Classics)
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S13: Cato, Livy, and Exemplarity in Rome (Christians Reading Classics)
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S14:Vergil's Exemplary Romans (Christians Reading Classics)
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S15: Tacitus on How to Be a Good Man (Christians Reading Classics)
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S16: Suetonius, Plutarch, and the Emperor's Groove (Christians Reading Classics)
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S17: Apuleius & Marcus Aurelius Consider the Soul (Christians Reading Classics)
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S18: North African Converts Read Pagan Classics (Christians Reading Classics)
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S19: The Christian Vergil's Violent Virtues (Christians Reading Classics)
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S20: Boethius and the Consolation Philosophy Gives (Christians Reading Classics)