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With Pallas toward None: Aeneid XI, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 115)
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Remember way back when the Trojans were “eating their tables”? Well, in Book 11 their tables seem to be turning. Seems like just yesterday Aeneas ...
Male Pattern Baldric: Aeneid X, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 114)
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week there’s more gore in store for shor as Aeneas gets his rage on and goes full Achilles. The carnage reaches such a fever pitch that it ra...
All’s Hair in Love and War! Aeneid X, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 113)
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jeff and Dave are back at the Aeneid, wading into some deep waters murky and redolent with the unfulfilled wishes of Jupiter. As full-scale ...
Translating Samuel Rutherford’s Examen Arminianismi (Ad Navseam, Episode 112)
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The guys take a brief break from Vergil this week to talk about some of Dave's recent translation work. The theme is Scottish divine Samuel Rutherford...
Turnus Loose: War in Aeneid IX, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 111)
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in this week as the guys wrap up Aeneid 9 and take a look at the fallout and aftermath of Nisus' and Euryalus' disastrous midnight raid. When the...
A Night to Dismember: The Tragedy of Nisus and Euryalus in Aeneid IX, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 110)
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Who drives us to outrageous action? Is it some god, or does each man make of his own desire a god, which then drives him furiously to a violent end"?...
Signed, Shield, Delivered: Aeneas becomes Achilles in Aeneid Book VIII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 109)
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week the guys wrap up Book VIII of Vergil's epic by discussing Aeneas' amazing shield. Wrought by the ignipotens fire-forger Vulcan at the lasciv...
Et in Arcadia Ego? Evander and Cacus in Vergil’s Aeneid Book VIII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 108)
07 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jeff and Dave launch into the fascinating, often misunderstood world of Rome way, way back before there were Romans. As Aeneas readies for b...
The Census of Quirinius in the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 107)
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Christmas-themed episode Jeff and Dave take a break from the Aeneid to look at Luke's Gospel, chapter 2:1-5, and the puzzling census of Quirin...
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Faces: Janus and Camilla in Aeneid Book VII, Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 106)
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The guys wrap up their look at Book 7 this week but not before transgressing a few more liminal spaces. When Latinus throws up his hands at the storm ...
The Fury’s Still Out on this One: Allecto in Aeneid Book VII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 105)
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the guys move (nearer) to the end of Book VII and examine the role of that frightful, hair raising, blood-curdilng sister of Tisiphone and M...
William Morrell and Epic Poetry in Colonial New England (Ad Navseam, Episode 104)
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For a special Thanksgiving episode, this week the guys take a look at the "earliest surviving work of poetry about New England and the second oldest p...
Eye of the Tiber: Aeneid Book VII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 103)
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Book VII! Aeneas and co. find themselves in the second half of the game and the stakes just keep getting higher and higher. Will they have the guts to...
Dis is where it Ends: Aeneid Book VI, Part 4 (Ad Navseam, Episode 102)
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Time to leave behind the valley of souls, make our way out of Dis place and head back to the land of the living. As the guys wrap up this portion of t...
If Dis is It, Please Let me Know: Aeneid Book VI, Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 101)
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we find Aeneas getting closer to a reunion with Dad and maybe even an exit from this Hotel California. But, as we’ve seen throughout...
Gouda Nuff for Now: The Cheesy Clip Show (Ad Navseam, Episode 100)
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 100! Will the guys celebrate the century mark by digging even deeper into the Classics, finding hidden layers of erudite exegesis, philology, ...
The Palladium (Gurgle 5)
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s fun-size offering tackles the mysterious, quasi-historical object known as the Palladium. Readers of myth might remember this as the tal...
Memorizing Latin: The Why and Some What, Part 2 (Gurgle 4)
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in for Part 2 of our Gurgle on memorizing Latin. In this brief episode we look at selections from King David , Appendini, Verinus, Gatti, Wegeler...
Dis is the Place: Aeneid Book VI, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 99)
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There's no going back now—in this episode we follow along as Aeneas enters the Underworld proper. And if you were expecting a DMV-esque experience l...
Use Your Allusion I: Classics in Pop Music (Ad Navseam, Episode 98)
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wait a minute…this sounds like rock and/or roll! Indeed, after some digging through attic boxes stuffed with 45s, 8-tracks, and cassettes, the guys ...
Bough Wow: Vergil’s Aeneid Book VI, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 97)
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do you smell that? Could it be the warm smell of colitas rising up through the air? Or did Dave over-microwave his gas station burrito again? Well, wh...
Royal Boxing Day: Vergil’s Aeneid Book V, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 96)
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the guys close out their look at Book V with continued questions about the relevance of this break in the epic's main action. Are we really ...
Regatta Love It: Vergil’s Aeneid Book V, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 95)
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Remember when you were a kid and eagerly waiting for that next episode of Family Ties, so you could pick up the continuing action of the Keaton family...
The Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man (Ad Navseam, Episode 94)
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jeff and Dave take a sustained look at an-oft discussed but ill-defined notion: what, if anything, gives people dignity? Drawing on the work...
Come on Baby Light My Pyre: Vergil’s Aeneid Book IV, Part 4 (Ad Navseam, Episode 93)
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we at last reach the grim, tragic climax of Book IV of the Aeneid, where the height of Dido’s madness is matched only by the depth of Aene...
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Aeneid Book IV Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 92)
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re getting to the “dessert” portion of this banquet of a book; sounds great, right? Well, dismiss those visions of truffles and gelato from y...
Bride and Gloom: Aeneid Book IV, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 91)
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s getting steamy in Carthage, as Aeneas and Dido find themselves alone in a cave, separated from the hunt, chased there by an Olympus-sent thunde...
To Live and Let Dido: Aeneid Book IV, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 90)
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff and Dave are back at it after a tiny hiatus and a southern-fried roadtrip. In this episode we seek to figure out, with the help of Brooks Otis, w...
Dirges for Dead Dido: St. Augustine and Vergil (Ad Navseam, Episode 89)
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff take a break from Vergil (well, kinda) and fast forward a few centuries to Augustine of Hippo. Now, here’s a guy that a lot ...
Memorizing Latin: The Why and Some What, Part 1 (Gurgle 3)
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here's your chance, dear listener, to add some famous Latin quips and sayings to your memory storehouse and repertoire. In this Gurgle we teach you ho...
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Troy, Troy, Again: Aeneid Book III, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 88)
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode the guys make their way through the rest of Book 3 where we find more regressive pulls back to the old Troy as well as Homeric tags an...
Crouching Helen, Hidden Destiny: Vergil’s Aeneid Books II and III (Ad Navseam, Episode 87)
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the urging of mom (Venus) Aeneas finally decides to bolt from Troy, but not before encountering a cowering Helen lurking in the shadows. His instin...
Oh for Goodness Snakes! Vergil’s Aeneid Book 2, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 86)
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Dave and Jeff plow deeper into Book 2 it is clearly getting worse for the Trojans. They didn’t Sinon for this! Those wily Greeks have set the tra...
Never Look a Grift Horse in the Mouth: Vergil’s Aeneid Book II, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 85)
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a few parting remarks and summations to Book 1, Jeff and Dave wander through the dense undergrowth near the shores of Carthage and make their wa...
Mist Opportunities: Aeneid Book I, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 84)
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Don't you just hate it when all you want is to have a nice visit with your mom, share some tea and a huggable portion or two, but then she decides to...
Girl Juno it’s True: Aeneid I and the Causes of Juno’s Wrath (Ad Navseam, Episode 83)
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Well we have finally arrived at the full-scale treatment of the Aeneid. In this episode we take a close look at the first half of Book 1, the causes ...
The Alexamenos Graffito and Roman Persecution of Christians (Gurgle 2)
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this burst of classical interest, Dave and Jeff discuss the graffito discovered on the Palatine Hill in 1857. Does it depict Christ Jesus crucified...
A Refugee from Fate: Vergil’s Aeneid 1.1-7 (Gurgle 1)
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this surprise premier, Jeff and Dave plow new ground with a 15 minute huggable portion, a bite-sized podcast for those on the go. Here's your chanc...
Whaddya Noah?: Deucalion, Pyrrha, and the Flood in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ad Navseam, Episode 82)
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many civilizations around the world have traditions in which the gods get upset with mankind and water the world back to square one. The Greeks and Ro...
No Meat, Please, We’re Pythagoreans!: Pythagoras in Book 15 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ad Navseam, Episode 81)
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s back to Ovid this week and you’d best hold on to your hypotenuse. Join us for a deep dive into Book 15 of the Metamorphoses where, after a q...
What’s a Motto You, Two? University and College Mottoes (Ad Navseam, Episode 80)
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the guys are back with more mottos, from the muddled to the magnificent, from bland to grand. But this time they have their sights set on th...
Ides, Ides, Baby!: Caesar’s Assassination in the Roman Historians (Ad Navseam, Episode 79)
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Well, the Ides of March may have already come and gone, but the guys are determined to jump headlong into one of the most famous dates and deaths in w...
Clever Jokes for Clever Folks: Robert Mac and Aristotle’s Lost Treatise on Comedy (Ad Navseam, Episode 78)
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Jeff were searching in vain for Aristotle's lost treatise on comedy when they stumbled across veteran stand-up comedian Robert Mac (from...
Dr. Amphibolus, I Presume?: Erasmus as Translator of the Classics (Ad Navseam, Episode 77)
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're going toe-to-toe with the "Prince of the Humanists" himself, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. With the guidance of scholar and no...
A Visit to the Roman Catacombs (Ad Navseam, Episode 76)
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the guys welcome back to the studio esteemed friend and mentor Dr. Ken Bratt. You may remember him from such episodes as "From there We Trav...
’Beware of Falling Turtles!’ and other Strange Tales: Death Stories of famous Greeks and Romans” (Ad Navseam, Episode 75)
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There seems to be a universal archetype wherein a famous person dies or utters last words befitting the life she lived. The Greeks and Romans wer...
Cad to the Bone: Alcibiades and Asebeia in 415 BC (Ad Navseam, Episode 74)
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the summer of 415 BC and the Athenians (in the middle of a devastating war with Sparta) are debating whether to launch a naval expedition again...
But you Cotta Have Faith, Faith, Faith: Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 73)
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The guys wrap up their three-part dive into De Natura Deorum, and this time it is Cotta the Academic’s turn up at the plate. Where will Cotta (our ...
Keep Your Eye on the Balbus: Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 72)
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Balbus the Stoic is on the hot seat as he attempts to convince this feisty gathering of intellects that not only do the gods exist, but the...
Stoics Finally Come to This: Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 71)
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this first of a three-parter, Dave and Jeff set up a deep dive into a fascinating late work of Cicero in which representatives of the three major H...
They’ve Lost their Marbles!: Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures (Ad Navseam, Episode 70)
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The fact that many of the marbles from the Parthenon reside in the British Museum (London) has been controversial since they first landed there in the...
Licensed to Ille: Children’s Books in Latin (Ad Navseam, Episode 69)
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since the 1960 publication of Winnie Ille Pu (Winnie the Pooh...or is that Winnie that Well-Known Pooh Over There?) there has been a steady s...
Married with Classicists (Ad Navseam, Episode 68)
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By now listeners have gotten used to (and maybe even enjoyed?) the loose, devil-may-care, locker room atmosphere that tends to dominate in the Vomitor...
Rock Those Socks!: Stocking Stuffers for the Classically Oriented (Ad Navseam, Episode 67)
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Desperate to find the perfect gift to slip into your favorite scholar’s (budding and otherwise) stocking this year? Of course you are, because if he...
Growing Up Classical: A Conversation with Jillian Noe (Ad Navseam, Episode 66)
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s “Bring Your Daughter to Work Week” in the vomitorium and today Dave’s daughter Jillian stops by to talk about what it was like being home...
I Want My Mummy!: the Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great (Ad Navseam, Episode 65)
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the guys hopscotch from Babylon, to Memphis (not TN), to Alexandria (not VA), and even to Venice (not FL) in search of an answer to one of t...
How to be a Latin Guru, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 64)
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transliminate your favorite room, grab a cronut and get ready for some top-shelf edutainment! Dave and Jeff set the table, tackling terms and probing ...
How to be a Latin Guru, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 63)
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the best way to learn, retain, and teach Latin? The old school, passive “grammar and rote memorization” route or the hip, (relatively) ne...
There’s No Place Like Dome: Neoclassicism and the Architecture of Washington D.C. (Ad Navseam, Episode 62)
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder why the American capitol is chock full of columns, pediments, and triglyphs, or why the Washington Monument appears supremely suited for r...
Sedimental Journeys: Two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 61)
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's tufa one in the Vomitorium today! Two petrifying tales from the Metamorphoses, that is. First, Perseus gets hopelessly lost and takes it for...
“Just Ghosts To Show Ya” - Halloween Special (Ad Navseam, Episode 60)
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you encourage your children to stay in their beds at night by telling them that, if they get up, a vampiric meany will sneak in through a window an...
“That’s the Power of Love: Two Ovidian Vignettes” (Ad Navseam, Episode 59)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff and Dave wade into the Olympic-sized pool that is Ovid’s masterpiece, the Metamorphoses. After untangling etymological tendrils of the word “...
The Jung and the Restless: Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey (Ad Navseam, Episode 58)
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today the guys tackle the life and work of public intellectual Joseph Campbell, best known for his theory of the monomyth which proposes that all her...
The Abiding Value of the Liberal Arts - A Conversation with Heather Mac Donald (Ad Navseam, Episode 57)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff sit down with intellectual powerhouse and controversialist Heather Mac Donald. Known primarily for her incisive social comment...
Pay no Attention to the Girl behind the Curtain - The Delphic Oracle (Ad Navseam, Episode 56)
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week join Jeff, Dave, and Toto on a climb up the fragrant slopes of Mount Parnassus to consult what was the premier divination site in the ancien...
Whatsa Motto with You?! - Latin Mottoes of the US States (Ad Navseam, Episode 55)
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ever run into the phrase Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur (“Whatever is said in Latin seems profound”)? Well, most of the states in the Am...
“Up and Atoms!”: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Part IV (Ad Navseam, Episode 54)
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jeff and Dave wrap their look at Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, doing their best to break down the essentials all the while dodging those cli...
Shebang, the Whole: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 53)
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff make their way through the heart of the matter with a close look at Books 2-4 of Lucretius' Epicurean masterpiece. The guys se...
The Heart of Hidden Things: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 52)
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our dive into Lucretius continues this week and after a quick review of Epicureanism we get to the particulars. First up, Memmius, Lucretius’ patr...
The Whole Enchilada: Epicureanism and Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (Ad Navseam, Episode 51)
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jeff and Dave may have bitten off more than they can chew as the subject of the day is, well, everything. In the 1st century BC Lucretius sa...
“Brekekekex! Koax! Koax!”: Ancient Greek Comedy and Aristophanes’ Frogs (Ad Navseam, Episode 50)
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What better way to ring in our 50th than with the ribald, ridiculous, and righteous ruckus that is Athenian Old Comedy? After a quick trip through the...
What’s the Best Latin Textbook? - A Discussion with Hillsdale’s Dr. Patrick M. Owens, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 49)
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the throw-down continues as Dave, Jeff, and Dr. Patrick M. Owens dig into a pile of Latin textbooks and see which ones are worthy of a podiu...
What's the Best Latin Textbook? - A Discussion with Hillsdale's Dr. Patrick M. Owens, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 48)
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff sit down for Part I of a wide-ranging discussion with good friend and Latin guru Dr. Patrick M. Owens of Hillsdale College. We...
How Many Ships Can Your Face Launch?: Gorgias' "Encomium of Helen" and the Delayed Punchline" (Ad Navseam, Episode 47)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff and Dave bring the first show from Vomitorium West, where they take a close look at the sophist Gorgias (483–375 BC). When he wasn’t hitting ...
“From there we travelled to Philippi”—Talking Archaeology with Dr. Ken Bratt (Ad Navseam, Episode 46)
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the Vomitorium is graced with the presence of Dave and Jeff’s friend, former colleague, mentor and professor, Dr. Ken Bratt. Join us as Dr...
A Conversation with Ross King (Ad Navseam, Episode 45)
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff sit down with New York Times Bestselling author Ross King whose works such as Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and th...
Fathers' Foundings: Classics and the American Revolution (Ad Navseam, Episode 44)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oh say can you see where this one is going? Many people have heard about the influence of the Roman Republic on the shaping of the American government...
Ten Things We Hated about Grad School (Ad Navseam, Episode 43)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Starry-Eyed Undergrads, you know that dream of your future grad school you have where you’re strolling through a leafy quad on your way to shar...
Paul, Barnabas, Baucis, and Philemon in Lystra — Acts 14 and Ovid (Ad Navseam, Episode 42)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff take a close look at a well-known passage from ch. 14 of the Lukan history of the early church. As the apostles extend their p...
"We Bulled This City”—the Mysteries of Mithras (Ad Navseam, Episode 41)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jeff and Dave do some spelunking to try figure out what the strange mystery rites of the Persiany cult of Mithras were all about, and w...
How to Tell a Joke—a conversation with Michael Fontaine (Ad Navseam Episode 40)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a lively discussion with Dr. Michael Fontaine (Classics, Cornell University) as we talk about his new book—How to Tell a Joke: An Ancien...
U Can’t Dutch This - Daniel Heinsius and the Dutch Renaissance (Ad Navseam Episode 39)
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jeff and Dave take a trip to the Dutch Renaissance with a look at prolific Latin poet, theological secretary, Dutch patriot, and Greek scho...
A Literary Archaeology—Sallust and the Invention of the Monograph (Ad Navseam Episode 38)
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today Jeff and Dave dive into the oeuvre of Roman historian Gaius Sallustius Crispus (known as “Sallust” or “Crispy” to his friends), particu...
Olive's Well that Ends Well: Homer's Odyssey, part 11 (Books 23-24), Ad Navseam Episode 37
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After the smoke clears from some much needed post-slaughter fumigation, Dave and Jeff finally lumber their way to the end of the epic. At last we get ...
Come for the Wine, Stay for the Retributive Justice—Homer’s Odyssey, Part 10 (bks 20-22); Episode 36
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave comes into the Vomitorium in a bit of a gloomy mood, and what’s on tap in these books does not look like it will help much. All the planning an...
Antipasto! Top 9 Reasons to Study Greek and Latin - Episode 35
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happened to Episode 35 and Dr. Michael Fontaine? Well, our hosts had some tech diffs. That planned episode didn't drop. It shattered. So instead ...
“Take a Gander at this Dream I Had…” Homer’s Odyssey, Part 9 (Books 18-19) - Episode 34
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When does Penelope know who the stranger really is? This question is at the center of today’s episode as the storm continues to gather in Odysseus...
Ad Navseam Episode 33: “Reunited and it Feels so Good”--Homer’s Odyssey, Part 9 (Books 15-17)
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ecce! Here it is, the tearjerking, heartbreaking, bird-shrieking, deeply satisfying reunion between long-lost Odysseus and his heroic son Telemachus. ...
Ad Navseam Episode 32: Swined and Dined—Homer’s Odyssey, part 8 (Books 12-14)
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Odysseus wraps up his epic yarn for the Phaeacians by threading the needle between the “dog-trunked” Scylla and the gulping maelstrom of...
Ad Navseam Episode 31: Mortal Republic, How Rome Fell into Tyranny - a Conversation with Dr. Ed Watts of UC San Diego
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we welcome Dr. Ed Watts into the vomitorium. A highly respected historian of Rome from UCSD, Ed talks with Jeff and Dave about his fas...
Ad Navseam Episode 30: More Pain in the Nekuia—Odysseus in the Underworld, Part 2 (Homer’s Odyssey, part 7)
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Jeff katabisate back into Hades where we watch a parade of mythic women, but no marching bands or fun-size Snickers in this parade, just more...
Ad Navseam Episode 29: A Pain in the Nekuia—Odysseus in the Underworld, Part 1 (Book 11)
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Come along as we follow Odysseus on his ultimate journey—a trip to the LAND OF THE DEAD (cue screeching violins or maybe even Michael Jackson’s “...
Ad Navseam Episode 28: The Well-Trained Mind: A Conversation with Susan Wise Bauer
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jeff and Dave welcome author, teacher, musician, farm guru, and mini-Aristotle Susan Wise Bauer via Zoom from her home in Virginia. Jeff and...
Ad Navseam Episode 27: “HOLY MOLY!” — Homer’s Odyssey, part 5 (Book 10)
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After giving the Cyclops everything short of his credit card information, Odysseus and the boys are in for more bumps and bruises. First it’s a visi...
Ad Navseam Episode 26: “It’s all Fun and Games Till Someone Pokes an Eye Out” - Homer’s Odyssey, Part 4 (Book 9)
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff find themselves trapped with Odysseus and his men in the cave of the dreaded chatterbox Cyclops. Here they're confronted not o...
Ad Navseam Episode 25: Schmidt-en with the Classics
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we welcome our first in-studio guest (and it’s a big one)—Newberry Award winning young adult author (and Calvin University English Profe...
Ad Navseam Episode 24: "A Toast to the Host who can Boast the Most Roast” — Homer’s Odyssey, Part 3 (Books 5-8)
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode Zeus sends Hermes to demand that the fair-tressed Calypso release weeping Odysseus (still with us?) after seven years of island...
Ad Navseam Episode 23: Down on the Pharmaka—Homer’s Odyssey, Part 2
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff clamber aboard a trireme and follow Telemachus as he leaves Ithaca (for the first time?) and heads to the Peloponnese in searc...
Ad Navseam Episode 22: When will Dad be Home? - Homer's Odyssey, Part 1
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ad Navseam Episode 21: Cowboy Up, Verg! Eclogue One and the Origins of Augustan Literature
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 shep...