This is the second lecture of a series of lectures on C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. We will be exploring the theory presented by Dr. Michael Ward in his seminal work Planet Narnia (Oxford University Press, 2008) and its popularization The Narnia Code (Tyndale House Publishing, 2010). According to Ward's theory, each book is connected to one of the seven medieval planets. This first lecture summarized Planet Narnia's opening chapters. In this second lecture, we focus specifically on Prince Caspian, and the planet associated with it, Mars.

Lecture handout: https://tinyurl.com/2kpeym2n
Rev. Dr. Michael Ward (University of Oxford): https://tinyurl.com/35rhznuu

00:00 Lewis's early interest in Mars
03:59 Mars in Lewis's poetry
07:23 Mars in Lewis's scholarship
10:14 Mars in the Ransom Trilogy
18:57 The Martial poeima in Prince Caspian
26:15 The Martial logos in Prince Caspian
34:27 Conclusion: Evoke courage

*WARNING*: In this lecture, I deliberately commit a logical fallacy. Can you find it? The list of logical fallacies is given in the last slide. For more about this pedagogy called Spot the Fallacy, see my lecture on Logical Fallacies: https://tinyurl.com/4k8xrhk4