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2330: Tend Soil

Sep 17, 2023

In the boundless ocean of the social seas, where ides and winds whip fleeting trends, the Artist must make sanctuary.

Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2023/09/17/301-2330-tend-soil/

Listening to In Our Time (Solon the Lawgiver): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7wb

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Solon, who was elected archon or chief magistrate of Athens in 594 BC: some see him as the father of Athenian democracy. In the first years of the 6th century BC, the city state of Athens was in crisis. The lower orders of society were ravaged by debt, to the point where some were being forced into slavery. An oppressive law code mandated the death penalty for everything from murder to petty theft. There was a real danger that the city could fall into either tyranny or civil war. Solon instituted a programme of reforms that transformed Athens’ political and legal systems, its society and economy, so that later generations referred to him as Solon the Lawgiver. With Melissa Lane Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University Hans van Wees Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London and William Allan Professor of Greek and McConnell Laing Tutorial Fellow in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at University College, University of Oxford Producer Luke Mulhall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7wb

Listening to Desert Oracle Radio (The Autumn Tint of Gold): https://omny.fm/shows/desert-oracle-radio-1/the-autumn-tint-of-gold

This autumn is getting off to a strange start, as here in the Mojave High Desert there are carpets of little yellow wildflowers thanks to the hurricane, old Hurricane Hilary which soaked us all pretty good a month ago. Never seen so many weeds in late September. Happy Equinox from Desert Oracle Radio, celebrating 200 episodes with tonight’s show. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.