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The Grand Narrative

The Grand Narrative

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An anthology history podcast tracing how human civilizations connected, clashed, and evolved -- from Stone Age obsidian trade routes to the networks that built the modern world. Each episode follows one thread of the grand story of how we became one interconnected species.

Mia 2026
Mondiale Scienze sociali
  • The Grand Narrative — Greek Philosophy: Socrates and the Examined Life
    Oct 20 2026

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    In the crowded agora of Athens, sometime in the mid-fifth century BCE, a barefoot man with a famously unattractive face — a flat, upturned nose, bulging eyes, later contemporaries would compare him unfavorably to a satyr — stops a passing citizen with a simple question.

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    15 min
  • The Grand Narrative — Laozi and the Dao
    Oct 19 2026

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    According to a tradition recorded centuries after the fact, an old court archivist, weary of the corruption and decay he has witnessed in the declining Zhou royal court, mounts an ox and rides west, toward the mountain pass separating civilization from the wilderness beyond.

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    12 min
  • The Grand Narrative — Confucius and Social Order
    Oct 18 2026

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    Sometime around 551 BCE, in the small state of Lu, in what is now Shandong province in eastern China, a boy is born into a family of minor, declining aristocratic status. His name is Kong Qiu. History will remember him by the honorific title his later followers gave him: Kongfuzi, "Master Kong" — a name Western missionaries would eventually Latinize as Confucius.

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    13 min
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