Among the Ancients II
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Marcus Aurelius
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For their final conversation Among the Ancients, Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones turn to the contradictions of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher M...
Apuleius
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Apuleius’ ‘Metamorphoses’, better known as ‘The Golden Ass’, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following t...
Juvenal
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we tackle Juvenal, whose sixteen satires influenced libertines, neoclassicists and early Christian moralists alike. Conservative to a...
Tacitus
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Annals, Tacitus’ study of the emperors from Tiberius to Nero, covers some of the most vivid and ruthless episodes in Roman history. A masterclas...
Lucan
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his prodigious, prolific and very short career, Lucan was at turns championed, disavowed and finally forced into suicide at 25 by the emperor Nero....
Plautus and Terence
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In episode seven, we turn to some of the earliest surviving examples of Roman literature: the raucous, bawdy and sometimes bewildering world of Roman ...
Lucian
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The broad theme of this series, truth and lies, was a favourite subject of Lucian of Samosata, the last of our Greek-language authors. A cosmopolitan ...
Plato's 'Symposium'
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plato’s 'Symposium', his philosophical dialogue on love, or eros, was probably written around 380 BCE, but it’s set in 416, during the uneasy truc...
Pindar and Bacchylides
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the fifth episode of Among the Ancients II we turn to Greek lyric, focusing on Pindar’s victory odes, considered a benchmark for the sublime sinc...
Herodotus
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the most compelling stories of the Classical world come from Herodotus‘ 'Histories', an account of the Persian Wars and a thousand things be...
Aesop
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Supposedly an enslaved man from sixth-century Samos, Aesop might not have ever really existed, but the fables attributed to him remain some of the mos...
Hesiod
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones kick off their second season of Among the Ancients with a return to the eighth century BCE, exploring the poems of Homer...
Introducing Among the Ancients II
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Wilson, celebrated classicist and translator of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, is back to take on another twelve vital works of Greek and Roman li...