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Back to SearchWhat's the Best Textbook for Learning Ancient Greek? - Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 187)
Episode 192
This week Jeff and Dave are wrapping up the Attic portion of their whirlwind tour through beginning Greek textbooks. On the menu today is the text of…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part VII (Ad Navseam, Episode 186)
Episode 191
This one is a Thoreau-back! After a brief hiatus the boys are back in town following sojourns in Greece (Jeff) and South Africa (Dave). It’s also tim…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
What's the Best Textbook for Learning Ancient Greek? - Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 185)
Episode 190
The guys are back at it this week, with round two of the deep dive into textbooks for Attic Greek. After some opening shenanigans, a corrigendum, a c…
1 year ago
What'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…
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 2 months 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 f…
1 year, 2 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: Cat…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 3 months 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 ca…
1 year, 3 months ago