Podcast Episodes

Ad Navseam Episode 9: A Fisherman, a Farmer, and a Shepherd Walk into a Painting… - Ovid and Brueghel’s Fall of Icarus

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Episode 9

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Dave and Jeff serve up some Northern Renaissance art with a close look at Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s mysterious and haunting take on the Daedalus and Icarus myth. Is it a response to…

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Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Ad Navseam Episode 8: Avid for Ovid, or What's Love Got to Do with It?

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Episode 8

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This week Jeff and Dave take a close look at the Roman poet Ovid's (43 B.C. - 18 A.D.) first public work, Amores I.1. We cover such important literary notions as recusatio, ἀδύνατον, and what it must…

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Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Ad Navseam Episode 7: Troy, the Movie - More Bods than Gods

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Episode 7

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This week Dave and Jeff watch—sometimes through their fingers—Wolfgang Petersen’s sweaty, beardy epic, Troy (2004). Come along as we revisit the film after several years of peaceful forgetfulness. Wa…

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Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Ad Navseam Episode 6: SCHLIEMANN!

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Episode 6

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In this episode Dave and Jeff make their way through the life and (mis)adventures of Heinrich Schliemann, the German polyglot, tycoon, and romantic who was instrumental in the discovery of the sites …

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Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Ad Navseam Episode 5: History and the Trojan War

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Episode 5

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Is the Homeric world make-believe, or is there a juicy, historical core at the center of these exciting adventure stories? We discuss some of the archaeological, geographical, and linguistic evidence…

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Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Ad Navseam Episode 4: Homer's Iliad, Part 3

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Episode 4

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Dave and Jeff finish off their tour through some of the narrative and aesthetic aspects of Homer's first epic, the Iliad. Death on all sides, as Patroclus and Hector bite the dust, plus greaves, shie…

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Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Ad Navseam Episode 3: Homer's Iliad, Part 2

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Episode 3

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Honor Lost, Honor Defended, Achilles Spends Book 9 Glamping in his Tent.

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Published on 5 years ago

Ad Navseam Episode 2: Homer's Iliad, Part 1

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Episode 2

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Achilles, Agamemnon, Briseis, Chryseis, Diomedes, a face that launched a thousand ships...Join us for Part 1 of our journey through the Iliad. It's going to be epic!

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Published on 5 years ago

Ad Navseam Episode 1: Classics as a Way of Life

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Season 1 Episode 1

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In this inaugural episode we introduce our listeners to Ad Navseam and discuss what it means to think about the Classics as a way of life.

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Published on 5 years ago