Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDis is the Place: Aeneid Book VI, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 99)
Episode 102
There's no going back now—in this episode we follow along as Aeneas enters the Underworld proper. And if you were expecting a DMV-esque experience li…
3 years, 8 months ago
Use Your Allusion I: Classics in Pop Music (Ad Navseam, Episode 98)
Episode 101
Wait a minute…this sounds like rock and/or roll! Indeed, after some digging through attic boxes stuffed with 45s, 8-tracks, and cassettes, the guys s…
3 years, 9 months ago
Bough Wow: Vergil’s Aeneid Book VI, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 97)
Episode 100
Do you smell that? Could it be the warm smell of colitas rising up through the air? Or did Dave over-microwave his gas station burrito again? Well, w…
3 years, 9 months ago
Royal Boxing Day: Vergil’s Aeneid Book V, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 96)
Episode 99
This week the guys close out their look at Book V with continued questions about the relevance of this break in the epic's main action. Are we really…
3 years, 9 months ago
Regatta Love It: Vergil’s Aeneid Book V, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 95)
Episode 98
Remember when you were a kid and eagerly waiting for that next episode of Family Ties, so you could pick up the continuing action of the Keaton famil…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man (Ad Navseam, Episode 94)
Episode 97
This week Jeff and Dave take a sustained look at an-oft discussed but ill-defined notion: what, if anything, gives people dignity? Drawing on the wor…
3 years, 10 months ago
Come on Baby Light My Pyre: Vergil’s Aeneid Book IV, Part 4 (Ad Navseam, Episode 93)
Episode 96
This week we at last reach the grim, tragic climax of Book IV of the Aeneid, where the height of Dido’s madness is matched only by the depth of Aenea…
3 years, 10 months ago
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Aeneid Book IV Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 92)
Episode 95
We’re getting to the “dessert” portion of this banquet of a book; sounds great, right? Well, dismiss those visions of truffles and gelato from your m…
3 years, 10 months ago
Bride and Gloom: Aeneid Book IV, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 91)
Episode 94
It’s getting steamy in Carthage, as Aeneas and Dido find themselves alone in a cave, separated from the hunt, chased there by an Olympus-sent thunder…
3 years, 11 months ago
To Live and Let Dido: Aeneid Book IV, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 90)
Episode 93
Jeff and Dave are back at it after a tiny hiatus and a southern-fried roadtrip. In this episode we seek to figure out, with the help of Brooks Otis, …
3 years, 11 months ago