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Back to SearchDo the Rite Thing: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 127)
Episode 132
This week Jeff and Dave wrap up their two-part series on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Here we learn about Demophoon, infant child of Queen Metaneira …
2 years, 9 months ago
No Pain, No Grain: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 126)
Episode 131
After a welcome hiatus for all of us (especially you, listener), Jeff and Dave are back in the studio for a look at the archaic hymn to the goddess D…
2 years, 10 months ago
Whoa, Milo, Come on, Come On, Let’s Go: The Greatest Ancient Athlete (Ad Navseam, Episode 125)
Episode 130
This week Jeff and Dave talk about Milo of Croton, by all accounts the most accomplished athlete of antiquity. This incredible individual was the win…
2 years, 11 months ago
Use Your Allusion II: Classics in Pop Music (Ad Navseam, Episode 124)
Episode 129
Wait a minute…this STILL sounds like rock and/or roll, or at least the synthy stuff wants to. Join Johnny Pop Winkle and Ye Olde Curmudgeon for a loo…
3 years ago
Gildy as Charged: Arachne and Midas in two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 123)
Episode 128
This week it’s back to the bottomless well of Ovidian goodness with a walk through a couple more vignettes. The guys start off with a look at the wel…
3 years ago
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: A Conversation with Margolit Fox (Ad Navseam, Episode 122)
Episode 127
This week we sit down for a fascinating, lively discussion with author Margalit Fox about her 2013 book, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Cr…
3 years ago
Loading the Canons: The Art of Classical Rhetoric (Ad Navseam, Episode 121)
Episode 126
This week Jeff and Dave take a look at the 5 canons of classical rhetoric, and how it is that great orators like Aeschines, Demosthenes, and Cicero g…
3 years, 1 month ago
Here Comes the Rage Again: Aeneid XII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 120)
Episode 125
Well ladies and gentlemen, this podcast within a podcast has finally come to an end: Jeff and Dave, at long last (denique, tandem, demum) have reache…
3 years, 1 month ago
Duel Unto Others: Aeneid XII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 119)
Episode 124
This week, Jeff and Dave get back to the Aeneid after a brief, Tarzanian hiatus. As the epic nears its end, we witness the intense and interesting in…
3 years, 1 month ago
Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature II (Ad Navseam, Episode 118)
Episode 123
This week Jeff and Dave wander back into the lush, crowded undergrowth of Edgar Rice Burroughs' prose, guided by the inimitable Erling B. "Jack" Hols…
3 years, 2 months ago