Homer shines on Nudie Reads! The Odyssey(8th century BC) delivers epic adventure—Odysseus vs. the Cyclops is pure wit and grit. From TikTok to Hollywood, it’s a timeless tale people love to retell. 📜🚢
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Nudie Reads One If By Land, Two If By Sea [S3E27]
A poet, a painter, and a patriot’s ride! Grant Wood’s 1931 quirky pic The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere is a great visualcompanion for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” as it gallops through 250 year old history. Saddle up for an offbeat Thursday ep! 📜🐎
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Nudie Reads Boethius on Lady Fortune [S3E26]
Lady Fortune spins her wheel. Boethius, a Roman in 534, imagined her as Lady Luck in person and wrote of her capricious ways in "On The Consolation of Philosophy" as he sat on death row. Wisdom from a condemned man. 📜🎡
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Nudie Reads Who Knew? [S3E25]
Rock n roll and Roman history. There’s plenty of cross-over to consider. And a certain James Newell Osterberg Jnr better known as Iggy Pop penned a lovely review of Edward Gibbon’sThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1995 that proves it. Who knew he had it in him? 📖✨
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Nudie Reads Tristram Shandy: The OG Weave [S3E24]
Long before The Weave of US President Donald Trump there was Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, a wild 18th-century classic from England via Ireland more known for its detours than the autobiography it pretends to be. The OG weave and rather cheeky. 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 ⏰ 👶
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