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Back to SearchWhat's the Best Textbook for Learning Ancient Greek? - Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 184)
Episode 189
Attic? Koine? Both? Groten and Finn? Anne Groton's Alpha to Omega? Donald Mastronarde? Hansen and Quinn? This week Jeff and Dave start a short series on how to choose a Greek textbook. After a few mo…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part VI (Ad Navseam, Episode 183)
Episode 188
This week we head back to Carl Richard's masterpiece from 2009, and the guys are taking a careful look at Chapter IV: Nationalism. We start out with a nice definition and perspective from one of Dave…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 182)
Episode 187
So, is there a Homeric influence on the New Testament? Or, more specifically (per MacDonald), did Luke deliberately pattern and structure elements in Acts of the Apostles on episodes from Iliad 2? In…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 181)
Episode 186
In 2003, Dennis R. MacDonald published an important monograph with Yale University Press entitled: Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles. In the provocative o…
Published on 5 months ago
Ave atque Vale: Catullus' Goodbye to his Brother, Poem 101 (Ad Navseam, Episode 180)
Episode 185
Neoteric poetry is on the menu this week, as the guys take a close look at what Dave considers the most beautiful and moving poem from antiquity: Catullus 101. This is the famous threnody that Gaius …
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XVI (Ad Navseam, Episode 179)
Episode 184
It's time to blind you with some science! Jeff and Dave follow Marrou's masterful tome (Part II, Chapter VIII) back through the centuries to see what place the other, non-literary side of the educati…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Writing Imperial History: Tacitus from Agricola to Annales with Bram ten Berge (Ad Navseam, Episode 178)
Episode 183
The guys are excited this week to welcome into the studio (via Zoom) their colleague from Hope College Dr. Bram ten Berge. After coming close to a career in professional tennis (more on that in the s…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
"Women of Trachis": Sophocles' Forgotten Play, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 177)
Episode 182
Jeff and Dave wrap up their look at Sophocles' Trachiniae this week, guided along by the inisghts of scholars such as Edwin Carawan and Charles Segal, whom you may remember from such things as what t…
Published on 6 months ago
"Women of Trachis": Sophocles' Forgotten Play, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 176)
Episode 181
This week the guys begin their look at Sophocles' "Women of Trachis", the one play among the surviving Sophoclean tragedies that scholars have scratched their heads over. The general feeling is that…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
The Milkman Goeth: Lactantius, Christian Cicero Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 175)
Episode 180
This week Jeff and Dave are back in the studio to discuss the leading light of early fourth-century Christian rhetoric. 'No whey', you say? Yes, it's true. The guys again take a look at the North Afr…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago