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Ad Navseam Episode 20: A Lion at the Gates - The Battle of Thermopylae, Part 2
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Late August, 480 BC. The tension in the pass finally gives way to violence and for the first two days of battle the Persians learn their wicker wear c...
Ad Navseam Episode 19: A Lion at the Gates - The Battle of Thermopylae, Part 1
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is this Shhhparta? In this episode Jeff and Dave (with help from Peter Green) make their way toward the narrow pass at Thermopylae and lay the groun...
Ad Navseam Episode 18: Cranks for the Memories – William Perkins, Alexander Dicson, and the Ars Memoriae
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t forget to join us this week as we ask the question, “What’s the best way to develop a super memory?” 16th century memory mavens William...
Ad Navseam Episode 17: “Honey, I’m Home!”—Alcestis, Part 2
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff wrap up their journey through Euripides’ Alcestis and the second half has everything—weeping, wailing, sarcastic dads, g...
Ad Navseam Episode 16: “Euripides? Eubuyides!”—Alcestis, Part 1
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff wade into the deep waters of Greek Tragedy for the first time with a two-part look at Euripides’ Alcestis. Even devotees of ...
Ad Navseam Episode 15: I Can't Spare a Square! - Horror Vacui and the Dipylon Vase
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Filling every nook and cranny, Jeff and Dave this week focus on their fears, and the 8th century B.C. pottery masterpiece known as the Dipylon Vase. W...
Ad Navseam Episode 14: Cicero Falls at Formiae - A Date which will Live in Infamy
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff take a sober look at the political assassination of Marcus Tullius Cicero, December 7, 43 B.C. As Octavian and Mark Antony rea...
Ad Navseam Episode 13: Buried in Books - Cicero and Cato in a Tusculan Villa
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jeff and Dave tag along with Cicero to sunny Tuscany where they find Cato Uticensis knee-deep in a pile of books on Stoicism. Gorging on ...
Ad Navseam Episode 12: Theogony and the Ecstasy - The Archaic Greek Poet Hesiod, Part 2
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 crea...
Ad Navseam Episode 11: Workin' for a Livin' - The Archaic Greek Poet Hesiod, Part 1
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ad Navseam Episode 10: Necropolis Now! The Martyrdom and Tomb of St. Peter
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ar...
Ad Navseam Episode 9: A Fisherman, a Farmer, and a Shepherd Walk into a Painting… - Ovid and Brueghel’s Fall of Icarus
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Ad Navseam Episode 8: Avid for Ovid, or What's Love Got to Do with It?
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 literary...
Ad Navseam Episode 7: Troy, the Movie - More Bods than Gods
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dave and Jeff watch—sometimes through their fingers—Wolfgang Petersen’s sweaty, beardy epic, Troy (2004). Come along as we revisit the...
Ad Navseam Episode 6: SCHLIEMANN!
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dave and Jeff make their way through the life and (mis)adventures of Heinrich Schliemann, the German polyglot, tycoon, and romantic wh...
Ad Navseam Episode 5: History and the Trojan War
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 arch...
Ad Navseam Episode 4: Homer's Iliad, Part 3
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Patro...
Ad Navseam Episode 3: Homer's Iliad, Part 2
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Honor Lost, Honor Defended, Achilles Spends Book 9 Glamping in his Tent.
Ad Navseam Episode 2: Homer's Iliad, Part 1
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Achilles, Agamemnon, Briseis, Chryseis, Diomedes, a face that launched a thousand ships...Join us for Part 1 of our journey through the Iliad. It's go...
Ad Navseam Episode 1: Classics as a Way of Life
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this inaugural episode we introduce our listeners to Ad Navseam and discuss what it means to think about the Classics as a way of life.