Podcast Episodes

Ad Navseam Episode 22: When will Dad be Home? - Homer's Odyssey, Part 1

Episode 22

In this first of countless (?) episodes on the Odyssey, Jeff and Dave wash ashore on the opening books, Castaway style. Here we find Odysseus’ wife a…

5 years, 4 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 21: Cowboy Up, Verg! Eclogue One and the Origins of Augustan Literature

Episode 21

This week Dave and Jeff gambol off near sylvan fields to tackle the earliest example of Vergil’s poetry, the Eclogues. In Eclogue 1 we meet the sheph…

5 years, 5 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 20: A Lion at the Gates - The Battle of Thermopylae, Part 2

Episode 20

Late August, 480 BC. The tension in the pass finally gives way to violence and for the first two days of battle the Persians learn their wicker wear …

5 years, 5 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 19: A Lion at the Gates - The Battle of Thermopylae, Part 1

Episode 19

Is this Shhhparta?  In this episode Jeff and Dave (with help from Peter Green) make their way toward the narrow pass at Thermopylae and lay the groun…

5 years, 5 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 18: Cranks for the Memories – William Perkins, Alexander Dicson, and the Ars Memoriae

Episode 18

Don’t forget to join us this week as we ask the question, “What’s the best way to develop a super memory?” 16th century memory mavens William Perkins…

5 years, 5 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 17: “Honey, I’m Home!”—Alcestis, Part 2

Episode 17

This week Dave and Jeff wrap up their journey through Euripides’ Alcestis and the second half has everything—weeping, wailing, sarcastic dads, guest …

5 years, 6 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 16: “Euripides? Eubuyides!”—Alcestis, Part 1

Episode 16

This week Dave and Jeff wade into the deep waters of Greek Tragedy for the first time with a two-part look at Euripides’ Alcestis. Even devotees of t…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 15: I Can't Spare a Square! - Horror Vacui and the Dipylon Vase

Episode 15

Filling every nook and cranny, Jeff and Dave this week focus on their fears, and the 8th century B.C. pottery masterpiece known as the Dipylon Vase. …

5 years, 6 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 14: Cicero Falls at Formiae - A Date which will Live in Infamy

Episode 14

This week Dave and Jeff take a sober look at the political assassination of Marcus Tullius Cicero, December 7, 43 B.C. As Octavian and Mark Antony re…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 13: Buried in Books - Cicero and Cato in a Tusculan Villa

Episode 13

This week Jeff and Dave tag along with Cicero to sunny Tuscany where they find Cato Uticensis knee-deep in a pile of books on Stoicism. Gorging on bo…

5 years, 7 months ago

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