Genius Minds
Philosophers and scientists who saw the future before everyone else.
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Socrates Drinks the Hemlock
An old man asks too many questions in public. Athens votes to make him drink poison. He calmly does it while his students cry.
Plato Founds the Academy
The world's first university opens in an olive grove outside Athens. Lasts 900 years, invents most of Western philosophy.
Archimedes Yells Eureka
A Greek genius figures out displacement in the bath, runs naked through the streets shouting about it. Later dies because he's too busy doing math to notice the Romans invading.
Marcus Aurelius, Philosopher King
A Roman emperor writes a private journal about being a better person while fighting a 14-year war on the frontier. Still a bestseller.
Leonardo da Vinci
Paints the Mona Lisa, designs flying machines, dissects corpses, writes backwards. One man casually invents the future in his spare time.
Machiavelli Writes The Prince
A fired Florentine bureaucrat writes a how-to manual for ruthless rulers, hoping to get his job back. Five centuries later it's still required reading.
Galileo's Trial
He says the Earth orbits the Sun. The Church says recant or die. He recants, mutters 'and yet it moves' on the way out, and gets house arrest forever.
Newton's Apple
A young Cambridge student goes home during plague lockdown and basically invents calculus, optics, and gravity in 18 months.
Voltaire and the Philosophes
A bunch of French intellectuals get exiled, locked up, and bestselling for arguing that maybe kings and priests aren't always right.
Darwin Publishes the Origin
A quiet English naturalist publishes a book about finches and accidentally rewrites how humans understand themselves.
Frequently Asked Questions
What stories are in the Genius Minds collection?
The Genius Minds collection includes 10 stories: Socrates Drinks the Hemlock, Plato Founds the Academy, Archimedes Yells Eureka, Marcus Aurelius, Philosopher King, Leonardo da Vinci, and 5 more. All available as immersive audio on History Tea.
Can I listen to Genius Minds stories for free?
Yes! All 10 stories in the Genius Minds collection are completely free to listen to on the History Tea app. Download on iOS and start listening today.
What time periods does Genius Minds cover?
The Genius Minds collection spans 399 BCE, 387 BCE, c. 250 BCE, 161 CE and more. Each story is a fresh, cinematic retelling with immersive narration.
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