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Back to SearchA Sandal in the Wind: The Argonautica of Apollonius, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 222)
Episode 231
Crashing rocks, a golden fleece, the smelly women of Lemnos, a lost waterboy, fraternal murder, potions, and Jason, the very unheroic lead...ready fo…
4 months, 1 week ago
Mass Crucifixion of the House of Lucius Pedanius Secundus (Ad Navseam, Gurgle 9)
Episode 230
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 w…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Homer's Odyssey Three Ways: Recent Translations by Anthony Verity, Emily Wilson, and Peter Green (Gurgle 8)
Episode 229
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…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XXII (Ad Navseam, Episode 221)
Episode 228
"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…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight: Miles Gloriosus, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 220)
Episode 227
Will the clever slave Dexter (Palaestrio) succeed in outsmarting the self-absorbed, narcissistic, self-proclaimed war hero Major Blowhard (Pyrgopolyn…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Plautus Thickens: Miles Gloriosus, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 219)
Episode 226
This week the guys make their first foray into Roman Comedy, specifically Plautus and one of his best-known plays, Miles Gloriosus (“Major Blowhard”)…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Living with OCD: The Oxford Classical Dictionary for the Autodidact (Ad Navseam, Episode 218)
Episode 225
This one's for all you autodidacts: if you have questions about any aspect of Greco-Roman antiquity, have trouble distinguishing between Phylas and P…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
A Light in the Attic: Lysias' Speech Against Eratosthenes (Ad Navseam, Episode 217)
Episode 224
In the Athenian criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime (…
6 months ago
H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XXI (Ad Navseam, Episode 216)
Episode 223
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 Educa…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: A Conversation with Translator Aaron Poochigian (Ad Navseam, Episode 215)
Episode 222
"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 ti…
6 months, 3 weeks ago