Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

0:00 Guest: Rebecca Croft
0:30 Surviving Milton
9:00 Why Epic Poetry?
9:50 "Parables From Nature"
22:13 Megan Basham's "Shepherds For Sale"
54:48 Iliad, Odyssey & Aeneid
58:40 Beowulf
1:01:30 Divine Comedy & Pilgrim's Progress
1:15:30 Paradise Lost
1:21:43 Why Modern Epics Don't Exist
1:26:30 Mystery, Knowledge, & Owning Your Future
1:35:25 Which Epic Poems Inspire Me Most
1:36:52 C.S. Lewis' Til We Have Faces
1:40:40 Stephen R. Lawhead's The Pendragon Cycle
1:45:00 Wrap Up

Cultural Warfare with Jon Croft goes live on X Spaces every Friday night at 8pm! Follow us at @jonedwardcroft on X to find it. This is our 38th episode, which is about the famous epic poetry of western civilization, such as "The Divine Comedy" (Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio, & Paradiso), John Milton's "Paradise Lost", Homer's "Iliad" & "Odyssey", "The Aeneid", "Beowulf", Edmund Burke's "The Faerie Queen", John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", among others. We also discuss our media experiences including Megan Basham's book "Shepherds For Sale."

Our show can also be found at Rumble, and on Locals at culturalwarfare.locals.com and Jon Croft's work can be found at mediamoses.com and at @themediamoses on X.