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Back to Search"Women of Trachis": Sophocles' Forgotten Play, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 177)
Episode 182
Jeff and Dave wrap up their look at Sophocles' Trachiniae this week, guided along by the inisghts of scholars such as Edwin Carawan and Charles Segal…
1 year, 3 months ago
"Women of Trachis": Sophocles' Forgotten Play, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 176)
Episode 181
This week the guys begin their look at Sophocles' "Women of Trachis", the one play among the surviving Sophoclean tragedies that scholars have scrat…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Milkman Goeth: Lactantius, Christian Cicero Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 175)
Episode 180
This week Jeff and Dave are back in the studio to discuss the leading light of early fourth-century Christian rhetoric. 'No whey', you say? Yes, it's…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Milkman Cometh: Lactantius, Christian Cicero Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 174)
Episode 179
This week the guys teeter on the edge of Late Antiquity, caught in that liminal space between pagan and Christian, west and east, Latin and Greek. An…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part V (Ad Navseam, Episode 173)
Episode 178
This week Jeff and Dave leave aside that French guy (H.I. Marsomething) and go back to their OTHER book series, Carl Richard. What was happening in t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Tomb it May Concern: Manolis Andronikos and Philip II at Vergina (Ad Navseam, Episode 172)
Episode 177
On November 8th, 1977 archaeologist Manolis Andronikos made public one of the greatest finds of all time—the royal Macedonian tombs at Aigai (modern …
1 year, 4 months ago
The Hunger Games' Swansong: Erisychthon and Cycnus in Two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 171)
Episode 176
This week Dave and Jeff are back to Ovid for a couple more vignettes! The guys start with the bizarre tale of Erysichthon (the "Earth-Ripper") who l…
1 year, 4 months ago
H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XV (Ad Navseam, Episode 170)
Episode 175
This week Jeff and Dave are back to H. I. Marrou and all things ancient education. At first, Jeff has some trouble seeing how Marrou isn't simply rep…
1 year, 5 months ago
The New Old Way of Learning Languages: James Hamilton and his Interlinears (Ad Navseam, Episode 169)
Episode 174
This week Jeff and Dave pick up an article (linked below) from Ernest Blum in the American Scholar (September 2008) on the once hugely popular (and n…
1 year, 5 months ago
Having Second Thoughts: Secondary Literature in the Study of the Classics, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 168)
Episode 173
In this second installment in a 2-part series, Dave and Jeff tackle some additional works that you avid nauserinos may want to add to your own librar…
1 year, 6 months ago