Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhaddya Noah?: Deucalion, Pyrrha, and the Flood in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ad Navseam, Episode 82)
Episode 82
Many civilizations around the world have traditions in which the gods get upset with mankind and water the world back to square one. The Greeks and R…
4 years, 1 month ago
No Meat, Please, We’re Pythagoreans!: Pythagoras in Book 15 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ad Navseam, Episode 81)
Episode 81
It’s back to Ovid this week and you’d best hold on to your hypotenuse. Join us for a deep dive into Book 15 of the Metamorphoses where, after a quick…
4 years, 2 months ago
What’s a Motto You, Two? University and College Mottoes (Ad Navseam, Episode 80)
Episode 80
This week the guys are back with more mottos, from the muddled to the magnificent, from bland to grand. But this time they have their sights set on t…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ides, Ides, Baby!: Caesar’s Assassination in the Roman Historians (Ad Navseam, Episode 79)
Episode 79
Well, the Ides of March may have already come and gone, but the guys are determined to jump headlong into one of the most famous dates and deaths in …
4 years, 2 months ago
Clever Jokes for Clever Folks: Robert Mac and Aristotle’s Lost Treatise on Comedy (Ad Navseam, Episode 78)
Episode 78
Dave and Jeff were searching in vain for Aristotle's lost treatise on comedy when they stumbled across veteran stand-up comedian Robert Mac (from ro…
4 years, 3 months ago
Dr. Amphibolus, I Presume?: Erasmus as Translator of the Classics (Ad Navseam, Episode 77)
Episode 77
This week we're going toe-to-toe with the "Prince of the Humanists" himself, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. With the guidance of scholar and novel…
4 years, 3 months ago
A Visit to the Roman Catacombs (Ad Navseam, Episode 76)
Episode 76
This week the guys welcome back to the studio esteemed friend and mentor Dr. Ken Bratt. You may remember him from such episodes as "From there We Tra…
4 years, 3 months ago
’Beware of Falling Turtles!’ and other Strange Tales: Death Stories of famous Greeks and Romans” (Ad Navseam, Episode 75)
Episode 75
There seems to be a universal archetype wherein a famous person dies or utters last words befitting the life she lived. The Greeks and Romans were n…
4 years, 4 months ago
Cad to the Bone: Alcibiades and Asebeia in 415 BC (Ad Navseam, Episode 74)
Episode 74
It’s the summer of 415 BC and the Athenians (in the middle of a devastating war with Sparta) are debating whether to launch a naval expedition agains…
4 years, 4 months ago
But you Cotta Have Faith, Faith, Faith: Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 73)
Episode 73
The guys wrap up their three-part dive into De Natura Deorum, and this time it is Cotta the Academic’s turn up at the plate. Where will Cotta (our st…
4 years, 4 months ago