Ep 03 | Love What Lasts: An Interview with Joshua Gibbs

Once you begin looking at curricula, it doesn’t take long to notice there’s a lot of overlap on the book lists. Homer. Plato. Plutarch. Dante. Milton. It can leave a mom wondering why we have to read these books in classical education. To get that answer, however, we have to ask a slightly different set of questions: Why do some stories last and why does that matter?

I’m joined by Mr. Joshua Gibbs to discuss why loving stories that last—whether in book, music, or film—is a matter of the soul.

Footnotes for this episode

Love What Lasts

Gibbs Classical

Gibbs Classical: Classes

The Cedar Room | Josh’s column at the Circe Institute

Proverbial Podcast

How to Be Unlucky

Something They Will Not Forget

Bio

Joshua Gibbs teaches online classes at GibbsClassical.com. He is the author of How To Be Unlucky, Something They Will Not Forget, and Blasphemers. His wife is generous and his children are funny.


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