Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVergil's Messianic Fourth Eclogue (Ad Navseam, Episode 205)
Episode 211
Incipe, parve puer - "Get started, little boy..." These are the words Roman poet Vergil used in his famous Fourth Eclogue of 40 B.C., bidding the pow…
10 months ago
H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XVIII (Ad Navseam, Episode 204)
Episode 210
Back to Marrou, Part II Chapter X! This time it’s all about rhetoric (we’ll resist the temptation to go on and on). H. I. drops the bomb (boutade!) t…
10 months, 1 week ago
Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke: A Fresh Assault on the Synoptic Problem, Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 203)
Episode 209
This week Dave and Jeff wrap up their discussion of John Wenham's fascinating, scholarly tour de force on the synoptic Gospels. Dealing with chapters…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke: A Fresh Assault on the Synoptic Problem, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 202)
Episode 208
This week Jeff and Dave continue their discussion of John Wenham's arguments against the hypothesis of Markan priority and the Q document as explaini…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Your Native Tongue Holds a Special Place in Your Brain (Gurgle 6)
Episode 207
Listen up, polyglots and hyperpolyglots: this one is for you. And for the rest of us, ever wonder what it's like to speak multiple languages, or even…
11 months ago
Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke: A Fresh Assault on the Synoptic Problem, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 201)
Episode 206
This week the guys dive into John Wenham’s intriguing 1992 book Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke: A Fresh Assault on the Synoptic Problem. As they unp…
11 months, 1 week ago
Gag Reflex: Our Second, More Abysmaler, Clip Show (Ad Navseam, Episode 200)
Episode 205
Has it finally come to this? Again? Can't you guys come up with any new material? Well, no. Everybody needs a little time away, the fans will say, fr…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Eye Can't Get No Satisfaction: Polyphemus and Galatea in Theocritus' Idyll XI (Ad Navseam, Episode 199)
Episode 204
"Whiter than cottage cheese", "bright as an unripe grape"? This is some world class woo-pitching, and Polyphemus the one-eyed wonder has high hopes t…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part IX (Ad Navseam, Episode 198)
Episode 203
This week the guys wrap up their look at Richard's trenchant book with his final chapter on the classics and American slavery. Richard teases out how…
1 year ago
Did St. Paul Speak Latin? and, The Forms You Really Need to Know: Souter and Mahoney (Ad Navseam, Episode 197)
Episode 202
Dave and Jeff this week tackle two fascinating articles in a portmanteau of Classical learning (Sahoney-Mahouter). First up, it's the 1911 article by…
1 year ago