Episode 7: The London Fire of 1666, or the Birth of the Modern State

Professor Johannes Dillinger, from Brookes University (England), recovers the memory of a world before the rise of the Modern State, and explains how the fear of organized arson, and of vagabonds, changed it all.
Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War





Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent University (Turkey), speaks from Greece about Thucydides' own life in the midst of internecine war, and its advice to future generations.





Music by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive.