Ionia
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Sep 17, 2026
Shaka SenghorGUEST
You're in county jail where you're going through kinda like your trial and getting ready to figure out if you're gonna be guilty or not guilty.
Shaka SenghorGUEST
And it was a ride, it was a two-and-a-half hour ride on a van up to this place called Riverside in Ionia, Michigan.
Shaka SenghorGUEST
And just pulling up, and it was...
Shaka SenghorGUEST
One of the contradictions that I saw is that the lawn was better manicured than the schools-
Robin CotterNARRATOR
Having attached the territory of Megara securely to Attica, he set up that famous pillar on the isthmus, and carved upon it the inscription giving the territorial boundaries.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
It consisted of two trimeters, of which the one towards the east declared, quote, Here is not Peloponnesus, but Ionia, unquote, and the one towards the west, quote, Here is the Peloponnesus, not Ionia, unquote.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
He also instituted the games here, in emulation of Heracles, being ambitious that as the Hellenes, by that hero's appointment, celebrated Olympian games in honor of Zeus, so by his own appointment they should celebrate Isthmian games in honor of Poseidon.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
For the games already instituted there in honor of Melicertes were celebrated in the night, and had the form of a religious rite rather than of a spectacle and public assembly.
2 HRS 11 MINS LATER
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
For his odes were so many exhortations to obedience and harmony, and their measured rhythms were permeated with ordered tranquillity, so that those who listened to them were insensibly softened in their dispositions insomuch that they renounced the mutual hatreds which were so rife at that time, and dwelt together in a common pursuit of what was high and noble.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
Thales, therefore, after a fashion, was a forerunner in Sparta of Lycurgus and his discipline.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
From Crete Lycurgus sailed to Asia with the desire, as we are told, of comparing with the Cretan civilization, which was simple and severe, that of the Ionians, which was extravagant and luxurious; just as a physician compares with healthy bodies those which are unsound and sickly.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
He could then study the difference in their modes of life and forms of government.
speaker_6NARRATOR
It completely commanded the whole Black Sea trade.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Every vessel that went forth from Greece or Ionia to traffic with Scythia or Colchis, the lands by the Danube mouth or the shores of the Maeotic Lake, had to pass close under its walls, so that the prosperity of a hundred Hellenic towns on the Euxine was always at the mercy of the masters of Byzantium.
speaker_6NARRATOR
The Greek loved short stages and frequent stoppages, and as a halfway house alone Byzantium would have been prosperous.
speaker_6NARRATOR
But it had also a flourishing local trade of its own with the tribes of the neighboring Thracian inland, and drew much profit from its fisheries, so much so that the city badge, its coat of arms as we should call it, comprised a tunny fish as well as the famous ox whose form alluded to the legend of the naming of the Bosphorus.
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speaker_6NARRATOR
His colleague, Boniface of Montferrat, was made king of Thessalonica, and did homage to Baldwin for a fief consisting of Macedonia, Thessaly, and inland Epirus.
speaker_6NARRATOR
The Venetians claimed a quarter and half a quarter of the empire.
speaker_6NARRATOR
and took out their share by receiving Crete, the Ionian Islands, the ports along the west coast of Greece and Albania, nearly the whole of the islands of the Aegean, and the land about the entrance of the Dardanelles.
speaker_6NARRATOR
They seized on every good harbor and strong sea fortress, but left the inland alone.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
and this course was quick enough as cicero writes to quell both the desperate wits of other atheists and the open way of defaming as the event showed of other sects and opinions though tending to voluptuousness and the denying of divine providence they took no heed therefore we do not read that either epicurus or that libertine school of cyrene or what the cynic impudence uttered was ever questioned by the laws Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old comedians were suppressed, though the acting of them were forbid, and that Plato commended the reading of Aristophanes, the loosest of them all, to his royal scholar Dionysius, is commonly known, and may be excused if Holy Chrysostom, as is reported, nightly studied so much the same author, and had the art to cleanse a scurrilous vehemence into the style of a rousing sermon.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
That other leading city of Greece, Lacedaemon, considering that Lycurgus, their lawgiver, was so addicted to elegant learning as to have been the first that brought out of Ionia the scattered works of Homer, and sent the poet Thales from Crete to prepare and mollify the Spartan surliness with his smooth songs and odes, the better to plant among them law and civility, it is to be wondered how museless and unbookish they were, minding naught but the feats of war.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
There needed no licensing of books among them, for they disliked all but their own laconic apothegms, and took a slight occasion to chase Archilochus out of their city, perhaps for composing in a higher strain than their own soldierly ballots and roundels could reach to.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
Or, if it were for his broad verses, they were not therein so cautious, but they were as dissolute in their promiscuous conversing, whence Euripides affirms in Andromache that their women were all unchaste.
speaker_4NARRATOR
It became the most celebrated of all public causes, not only on account of the fame of the orators, but also because of the noble conduct of the judges, who, though the prosecutors of Demosthenes were then at the height of power and acting in the interests of Macedonia, would not vote against him, but acquitted him so decisively that Aeschines did not get a fifth part of their ballots.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Consequently, Aeschines forsook the city at once, and spent the rest of his life as a teacher of rhetoric in Rhodes and Ionia.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Not long afterwards Harpalus came out of Asia to Athens.
speaker_4NARRATOR
He had run away from Alexander because he was conscious that his prodigality had led him into criminal practices, and because he was afraid of his master, who was now become harsh to his friends.
7 HRS 15 MINS LATER
Carol PelsterNARRATOR
The Roman calendar at this time was much in advance of the solar seasons, end footnote.
Carol PelsterNARRATOR
This month answers nearly to the Athenian Poseidon.
Carol PelsterNARRATOR
Put to sea, and after crossing the Ionian Gulf, took Oricum and Apollonia, and sent his transports back again to Brindisium for the soldiers who had been belated on their march.
Carol PelsterNARRATOR
These, as long as they were on the road, since they were now past their physical prime and worn out with their multitudinous wars, murmured against Caesar.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Aion says that he had the most astonishingly great thoughts of himself for having subjected the Samnians.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Whereas Agamemnon was all of ten years in taking the barbarian city, he had in nine months' time reduced the foremost and most powerful people of Ionia.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And, indeed, his estimate of himself was not unjust.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Nay, the war actually brought with it much uncertainty and great peril, if, indeed, as Thucydides says, the city of Samos came within a very little of stripping from Athens her power on the sea.
4 HRS 27 MINS LATER
speaker_2NARRATOR
The people of Seleucia, however, appreciated the wisdom of Aesop when they saw Serena with a wallet of obscenities from the Melissachia in front of him, but trailing behind him a Parthian Sybaris on so many wagon-loads of concubines.
speaker_2NARRATOR
After a fashion, his train was a counterpart to the fabled Echidnae and Scytalei, among serpents, by showing its conspicuous and forward portions fearful and savage, which spears, archery, and horse, betraying off in the rear of the line into dances, symbols, lutes, and nocturnal revels with women.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Roscius was certainly culpable, but it was shameless that the Parthians, to find fault with the Melissachia, when many of the royal line of their eriscadai were sprung from Milesian and Ionian courtesans.
speaker_2NARRATOR
While this was going on, it happened that Herodes was at last reconciled with Artavasdes, the Armenian.
Armand D'AngourGUEST
So Greece wasn't just mainland Greece and the Peloponnese, which we think of as Greece today.
Armand D'AngourGUEST
But the whole coastline of what is today Turkey and was then Ionia was also dotted with Greek settlements.
Armand D'AngourGUEST
Homer came from some debate, possibly Chios, the island, possibly Smyrna.
Armand D'AngourGUEST
on the west coast of Turkey.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The date is apparently the same, and the influences at work are the same.
speaker_3NARRATOR
It seems to have been under Pisistratus that the Homeric poems, in some form or other, came from Ionia to be recited in a fixed order at the Pan-Athenaeic festival and to find a canonical form and a central home in Athens till the end of the classical period.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Athens is the center from which Homeric influence radiates over the mainland of Greece.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Its effect upon literature was, of course, enormous.
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speaker_3NARRATOR
They change every time they are thought of, as a word changes every time it is pronounced.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Even in the height of the Achaean wars, the concept of any one god would be mixed up with traditions and associations drawn from the surrounding populations and their gods.
speaker_3NARRATOR
And by the time they come down to us in Homer and our other early literature, they have passed through the minds of many different ages and places, especially Ionia and Athens.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The Olympians as described in our text of Homer, or as described in the Athenian recitations of the sixth century, are mutatus mutandus related to the Olympians of the heroic age, much as the Hellenes of the sixth century are to the Hellenes of the heroic age.
ChloeHOST
Sorry, One World.
ChloeHOST
We are out here in Ionia, Michigan for the Ionia Freak Fair.
ChloeHOST
We just got handed a bottle of yellow ghost pepper hot sauce.
ChloeHOST
That will be something I will never consume.
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MichelleGUEST
This has been such a fun time.
MichelleGUEST
Such a good time.
MichelleGUEST
I hope Ionia has us back.
ClintHOST
Me too.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
Having attached the territory of Megara securely to Attica, he set up that famous pillar on the Isthmus, and carved upon it the inscription giving the territorial boundaries.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
It consisted of two trimeters, of which the one towards the east declared, quote, here is not Peloponnesus, but Ionia, unquote, and the one towards the west, quote, here is the Peloponnesus, not Ionia, unquote.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
He also instituted the games here, in emulation of Heracles, being ambitious that as the Hellenes, by that hero's appointment, celebrated Olympian games in honor of Zeus, so by his own appointment they should celebrate Isthmian games in honor of Poseidon.
Robin CotterNARRATOR
For the games already instituted there in honor of Melicertes were celebrated in the night, and had the form of a religious rite rather than of a spectacle and public assembly.
2 HRS 19 MINS LATER
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
For his odes were so many exhortations to obedience and harmony, and their measured rhythms were permeated with ordered tranquillity, so that those who listened to them were insensibly softened in their dispositions, insomuch that they renounced the mutual hatreds which were so rife at that time, and dwelt together in a common pursuit of what was high and noble.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
Thales, therefore, after a fashion, was a forerunner in Sparta of Lycurgus and his discipline.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
From Crete Lycurgus sailed to Asia, with the desire, as we are told, of comparing with the Cretan civilization, which was simple and severe, that of the Ionians, which was extravagant and luxurious, just as a physician compares with healthy bodies those which are unsound and sickly.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
He could then study the difference in their modes of life and forms of government.
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