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  • Hillel the Elder: Law with a Human Face

    Hillel the Elder: Law with a Human Face
    Dec 14 2025
    In this episode, Harmonia takes you into the noisy, anxious streets of Second Temple Jerusalem to meet Hillel the Elder-a quiet scholar whose patience changed the future of Jewish life. We begin on a freezing rooftop, where a poor student named Hillel nearly freezes just to hear a lesson, and follow him as he becomes the heart of Beit Hillel, the "house of Hillel," a school of thought that leaned toward mercy rather than harshness. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/hillel-elder-law-human-face
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    23 min
  • The Queen Who Blinded an Empire

    The Queen Who Blinded an Empire
    Dec 7 2025
    Come closer, dear one - this story does not wear silk or smile sweetly. This is the story of a queen with one eye and no patience for empires. Queen Amanirenas of Kush faced down Rome at its most arrogant - and didn't blink. In this episode, Harmonia walks the scorched sands of Nubia, remembering a woman who led armies, shattered statues, and defended her people with fire and steel. This isn't just a tale of resistance - it's a story of sovereignty, scars, and what happens when power underestimates dignity. And it echoes still, in every people who refuse to be erased. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/queen-who-blinded-empire
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    16 min
  • The Man Who Made Steam Dance

    The Man Who Made Steam Dance
    Nov 30 2025
    Come closer, dear one - I want to tell you about a man who made fire spin and water sing. Hero of Alexandria wasn't a conqueror or a philosopher, but a quiet inventor whose machines whispered the future. From temple doors that opened with heat to the world's first steam engine, his work seemed like magic - but it was more than that. It was possibility. In this episode, Harmonia remembers a moment when curiosity dared to outpace its time... and how a forgotten sphere helped turn the wheel of progress. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/man-who-made-steam-dance
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    18 min
  • Archimedes: The Man Who Measured the Impossible

    Archimedes: The Man Who Measured the Impossible
    Nov 23 2025
    Before he became a legend, Archimedes was just a man with wild hair, quiet brilliance, and a love of puzzles that could move the world. In this episode, Harmonia guides us through his most famous discoveries - from a crown and a bathtub to the siege machines of Syracuse - and explores what it means to ask questions that echo across time. With warmth, wonder, and just a touch of steam, this story reminds us that progress begins with curiosity... and sometimes, with wet footprints in the street. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/archimedes-man-who-measured-impossible
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    16 min
  • Ctesibius and the Clock That Sang

    Ctesibius and the Clock That Sang
    Nov 19 2025
    Long before gears and engines, before atomic clocks and artificial minds - there was a barber's son in Alexandria who couldn't stop asking questions. His name was Ctesibius, and he taught water to measure time, and air to play music. In this episode, Harmonia remembers the man who gave shape to invisible forces - not to conquer them, but to understand them. Through dripping clocks and singing pipes, we glimpse the beginning of mechanical imagination, and how progress often starts not with power... but with wonder. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/ctesibius-and-clock-sang
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    18 min
  • Chanakya and Chandragupta: Building After the Fall

    Chanakya and Chandragupta: Building After the Fall
    Nov 11 2025
    When a brilliant scholar named Chanakya was humiliated by a careless king, he set out to change the world-not just with plots and power, but with patience, strategy, and fierce resolve. Joined by Chandragupta, a young outsider with everything to prove, they toppled the mighty Nanda dynasty through war and alliance, founding the Mauryan Empire. But victory was only the beginning. In this episode, Harmonia takes you beyond the legends, revealing the harsh choices, real costs, and hard work of rebuilding after revolution-and why, for anyone dreaming of a better future, the real lesson is what comes next. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/chanakya-and-chandragupta-building-after-fall
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    18 min
  • The Shadow of a Stick

    The Shadow of a Stick
    Nov 6 2025
    How do you measure the world with nothing but a stick and a question? Harmonia remembers Eratosthenes of Cyrene-the ancient librarian who watched shadows, measured sunlight, and dared to calculate the circumference of the earth. In a city of scrolls and doubters, Eratosthenes' quiet curiosity changed how humanity saw itself. Through sunlit moments, doubts, and stubborn hope, this episode weaves a story of memory, courage, and the endless quest to understand our place in the universe. For the young and the curious-and anyone who's ever wondered what lies just beyond the horizon. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/shadow-stick
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    15 min
  • The Lyceum — Memory With a Roof

    The Lyceum — Memory With a Roof
    Oct 31 2025
    Harmonia walks beside us through the colonnades of the Lyceum -- Aristotle's school, and one of history's earliest knowledge institutions. This episode explores not just the famous thinkers who taught and studied there, but the quiet labor of preservation and memory that took place under its roof. Harmonia reflects on how the Lyceum became a shelter for ideas, and how its role as an archive helped knowledge survive across centuries. Libraries, she reminds us, are not just places -- they are promises. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/lyceum-memory-roof
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    13 min