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Back to SearchKeep Your Eye on the Balbus: Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 72)
Episode 72
This week Balbus the Stoic is on the hot seat as he attempts to convince this feisty gathering of intellects that not only do the gods exist, but th…
4 years, 4 months ago
Stoics Finally Come to This: Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 71)
Episode 71
In this first of a three-parter, Dave and Jeff set up a deep dive into a fascinating late work of Cicero in which representatives of the three major …
4 years, 5 months ago
They’ve Lost their Marbles!: Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures (Ad Navseam, Episode 70)
Episode 70
The fact that many of the marbles from the Parthenon reside in the British Museum (London) has been controversial since they first landed there in th…
4 years, 5 months ago
Licensed to Ille: Children’s Books in Latin (Ad Navseam, Episode 69)
Episode 69
Ever since the 1960 publication of Winnie Ille Pu (Winnie the Pooh...or is that Winnie that Well-Known Pooh Over There?) there has been a steady str…
4 years, 5 months ago
Married with Classicists (Ad Navseam, Episode 68)
Episode 68
By now listeners have gotten used to (and maybe even enjoyed?) the loose, devil-may-care, locker room atmosphere that tends to dominate in the Vomito…
4 years, 6 months ago
Rock Those Socks!: Stocking Stuffers for the Classically Oriented (Ad Navseam, Episode 67)
Episode 67
Desperate to find the perfect gift to slip into your favorite scholar’s (budding and otherwise) stocking this year? Of course you are, because if he …
4 years, 6 months ago
Growing Up Classical: A Conversation with Jillian Noe (Ad Navseam, Episode 66)
Episode 66
It’s “Bring Your Daughter to Work Week” in the vomitorium and today Dave’s daughter Jillian stops by to talk about what it was like being homeschoole…
4 years, 6 months ago
I Want My Mummy!: the Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great (Ad Navseam, Episode 65)
Episode 65
This week the guys hopscotch from Babylon, to Memphis (not TN), to Alexandria (not VA), and even to Venice (not FL) in search of an answer to one of …
4 years, 7 months ago
How to be a Latin Guru, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 64)
Episode 64
Transliminate your favorite room, grab a cronut and get ready for some top-shelf edutainment! Dave and Jeff set the table, tackling terms and probing…
4 years, 7 months ago
How to be a Latin Guru, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 63)
Episode 63
What’s the best way to learn, retain, and teach Latin? The old school, passive “grammar and rote memorization” route or the hip, (relatively) new act…
4 years, 7 months ago