Podcast Episodes

Ad Navseam Episode 12: Theogony and the Ecstasy - The Archaic Greek Poet Hesiod, Part 2

Episode 12

This week Dave and Jeff access a Pylon and head back to the beginning—Hesiod’s Theogony (c. 700 BC), the closest thing we get to a canonical creation…

5 years, 7 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 11: Workin' for a Livin' - The Archaic Greek Poet Hesiod, Part 1

Episode 11

Jeff and Dave get into the dirt with the archaic Greek poet Hesiod (c. 700 B.C.) and his seminal poem Works and Days. Is this near contemporary a mat…

5 years, 7 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 10: Necropolis Now! The Martyrdom and Tomb of St. Peter

Episode 10

Jeff and Dave lead you on a tour down into the Scavi below St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Rome. We take a look at some of the historical and a…

5 years, 7 months ago

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

Episode 9

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…

5 years, 7 months ago

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

Episode 8

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 literar…

5 years, 8 months ago

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

Episode 7

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…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 6: SCHLIEMANN!

Episode 6

In this episode Dave and Jeff make their way through the life and (mis)adventures of Heinrich Schliemann, the German polyglot, tycoon, and romantic w…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Ad Navseam Episode 5: History and the Trojan War

Episode 5

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 arc…

5 years, 8 months ago

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

Episode 4

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 Patr…

5 years, 9 months ago

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

Episode 3

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

5 years, 9 months ago

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