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Mass Crucifixion of the House of Lucius Pedanius Secundus (Ad Navseam, Gurgle 9)
Tune in this week for a quick eructation as Jeff and Dave review the disturbing story of Lucius Pedanius Secundus, Roman aristocrat, who in A.D. 61 was murdered by one of his household slaves. The…
Homer's Odyssey Three Ways: Recent Translations by Anthony Verity, Emily Wilson, and Peter Green (Gurgle 8)
Join the guys this week for a quick takedown of three recent translations of Homer's Odyssey, courtesy of Prof. Richard Whitaker of the University of Cape Town (Acta Classica, 2020). In six weeks,…
H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XXII (Ad Navseam, Episode 221)
"Greece, though beat, then caught her captor fast; and into boorish Latium brought cultured life at last." So says Horace in Epistle II.156-157. This week Jeff and Dave return to Marrou, Part III,…
Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight: Miles Gloriosus, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 220)
Will the clever slave Dexter (Palaestrio) succeed in outsmarting the self-absorbed, narcissistic, self-proclaimed war hero Major Blowhard (Pyrgopolynices), so that the mostly incompetent, lovable,…
The Plautus Thickens: Miles Gloriosus, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 219)
This week the guys make their first foray into Roman Comedy, specifically Plautus and one of his best-known plays, Miles Gloriosus (“Major Blowhard”). After a brief digression on Doestoevsky (не…
Living with OCD: The Oxford Classical Dictionary for the Autodidact (Ad Navseam, Episode 218)
This one's for all you autodidacts: if you have questions about any aspect of Greco-Roman antiquity, have trouble distinguishing between Phylas and Phrynichus, and are not sure where to turn when you…
A Light in the Attic: Lysias' Speech Against Eratosthenes (Ad Navseam, Episode 217)
In the Athenian criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime (and who didn't exist) and the district attorneys…
H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XXI (Ad Navseam, Episode 216)
This week the guys dip back into Marrou, where the author pivots like Yaxel Lendeborg to the Roman side of things. H.I. takes up the "Old Roman Education". Immediately we notice realities that put…
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: A Conversation with Translator Aaron Poochigian (Ad Navseam, Episode 215)
"There are the life events that have been apportioned to you. Live in harmony with them. There are the people whose destiny is to live at the same time as you. Love them. (Make sure you really feel…
Man-into-Beast Changes in Ovid, G.B. Riddehough (Gurgle 7)
Ok, AdNaserinos, you have slogged your way through 214 episodes of this humble podcast, patiently enduring many digressions, running gags, and inside jokes. You have also heard the hosts gush over…
Catullus Nose Poetry: Three Neoteric Gems (Ad Navseam, Episode 214)
This week Jeff and Dave zero in on the neoteric poetry of the Roman Republic's waning days. Relying on the efforts of the late great Peter Green (of "brackish tang" fame) and his 2005 translation and…
H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XX (Ad Navseam, Episode 213)
When you're feeling blue, all you have to do, is take a listen here, then you're not so blue. Why? We've got a Marrouvy kind of show. This week Jeff and Dave wrap up Part II of this portion of the…
Democracy and the Arts, in America? A Conversation on Tocqueville with Bob Stacey (Ad Navseam, Episode 212)
This week Dave and Jeff are joined in the vomitorium by Dave's former colleague and long-lost friend Dr. Bob Stacey. Bob is headmaster and instructor in government at the St. Augustine school in…
Carl P. E. Springer's "The Latin Poetry of Martin Luther" (Ad Navseam, Episode 211)
Did you know that when Martin Luther (1483-1546) wasn’t nailing things to doors and fomenting major splits in Christendom he was writing poetry? In Latin? Well, thanks to Carl P. E. Springer we now…
Cloudy with a Chance of Socrates: Aristophanes' Clouds, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 210)
This week Jeff and Dave conclude their brisk and breezy, dramatic reading through that old comedy standard, the Clouds. Featuring a rich smorgasbord of hilarity, inanity, and some nearly "postmodern"…
Polyphemus Last Words: Live at Michigan Junior Classical League (Ad Navseam, Episode 209)
In an AN first, Dave and Jeff take the show on the road to the Michigan state capital. Hosted by the world-class nerds of the Michigan Junior Classical League, the guys slush their way into Lansing…
You Can't Be Cirrus: Aristophanes' Clouds, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 208)
This week the guys take another stab at Aristophanes, this time with his Clouds. Will they rain in their criticisms? Will their jokes float lazily over your head? Haven’t the foggiest, but tune in…
H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XIX (Ad Navseam, Episode 207)
Join the conversation this week as Jeff and Dave go back into the world of Henri-Irénée Marrou’s History of Education in Antiquity, Part II, Chapter XI. First up is philosophical conversion: when you…
Forgers and Critics: Anthony Grafton and the History of Faking It (Ad Navseam, Episode 206)
Porphyry, Isaac Casaubon, and Richard Rietzenstein walk into a bar. Well, that's not true, seeing that they were separated from each other by hundreds of years. But if they did, they would be…
Vergil's Messianic Fourth Eclogue (Ad Navseam, Episode 205)
Incipe, parve puer - "Get started, little boy..." These are the words Roman poet Vergil used in his famous Fourth Eclogue of 40 B.C., bidding the powerful child yet born, son of a divine father, and…
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