Hearth of Hellenism

A Home for Knowledge on Greek History, Religion, and Culture - Ancient/Modern and in Between. Reflections and commentary on Contemporary Polytheism as well. angelonasios.substack.com angelonasios.substack.com

Hearth of Hellenism is a history podcast hosted by Angelo Nasios, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Angelo Nasios hosts Hearth of Hellenism, a history show with 13 episodes published.

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  12 - Why White Nationalists Love to use Ancient Greece for Hate w/ Dr. Curtis Dozier

  Jan 6, 20261h 9mS0

  <p>The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate by Curtis Dozier is a powerful exploration of how extremist movements weaponize the classical world. Dozier shows how white nationalist thinkers selectively reinterpret Plato, Sparta, Roman history, and the mythology of “Western civilization” to legitimize violence, exclusion, and racial hierarchy.</p><p>Curtis Dozier is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is the author of The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate and the director of the website Pharos: Doin...

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  11 - The Hieroglyphica - Hellenism between Horapollon and Today w/ Dr. Sasha Chaitow

  Jul 19, 20251h 46mS0

  <p>Hello listeners, today I have a fantastic interview with Dr. Sasha Chaitow from the amazing Thyrathen substack. </p><p>Sasha Chaitow, PhD, is a British-Greek scholar of the history of Western Esotericism with a background in Literature and Communication Studies. Her doctoral thesis (University of Essex, 2014) focused on the French visionary author Joséphin Péladan in relation to Symbolist art and literature in the French Occult Revival (Theion Publishing, 2022), and she has published her MA thesis (University of Exeter, 2008) as a monograph on the Renaissance alchemist Michael Maier and the initiatory content of his 1618 emblem book, Atalanta Fugiens (2020). Sh...

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  10 - The Orphic Hymns w/ Dr. Daniel Malamis

  Feb 23, 20251h 12mS0

  <p>In this episode, I interview Daniel Malamis of Rhodes University on his book The Orphic Hymns Poetry and Genre, with a Critical Text and Translation. Daniel explores the Orphic Hymns, focusing on their poetic style, structure, and role in ancient religious rituals. Along with his extensive study, a critical Greek text is provided, and a new English translation. </p><p></p><p>Daniel Malamis was born in the UK and educated there and in Zimbabwe. He completed his undergraduate degree at Rhodes and, after several years in the UK, Greece and South Korea, returned to Rhodes as a lecturer...

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  09 - The Afterlife of Paganism w/ Dr. Robin Douglas

  Jan 12, 202551 minS0

  <p>In today’s interview, I speak with Dr. Robin Douglas, co-author of Paganism Persisting: A History of European Paganism Since Antiquity. Robin is an independent scholar and a writer on the history of religion. He has a PhD from Cambridge University, where he previously completed his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in classics (with specialization in ancient history).</p><p>From the back cover</p><p>Paganism in Europe was not defeated by Christianity: it never went away. From the fourth century to the twentieth, against the background of a largely Christian culture, people repeatedly attempted to revive variou...

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  08 - Dionysus & Orphism w/ Katerina Apokatanidis - University of Toronto

  Aug 12, 20241h 5mS0

  <p>In today’s interview, I speak with Katerina Apokatanidis about Dionsyus and the Orphic Gold Tablets. Katerina Apokatanidis is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, Department of Classics. She works with Dr. Sarah Murray on the Archaeology of Greek funerary ritual and religion between the Archaic and Roman periods. She specialises in the materiality of the Orphic Gold Tablets and their role in Greek mortuary ritual. She obtained her BA in Classical Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. For her first MA at Durham University, U.K., she worked with Dr. J. H. Haubold on th...

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