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  1. Episode 70: Rome's Forgotten Epic (Statius' Thebaid)

    Statius' Thebaid, Books 1-6. This epic is hardly ever read or taught these days, but in 100 CE, it was as famous as anything in the Roman world. Episode 70 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-070/ Episode 70 Transcription: https://li

  2. Episode 69: Rome's Comic Novel (Petronius' Satyricon)

    Petronius' Satyricon is a contender for history's first novel, a picaresque filled with sex, misadventures, and details about daily life. Episode 69 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-069/ Episode 69 Transcription: https://literatur

  3. Episode 68: Love Means Sin (Seneca's Phaedra)

    Seneca's Phaedra (c 50s CE) is the story of an illicit passion, a stoic cautionary tale and simultaneously vivid character study. Episode 68 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-068/ Episode 68 Transcription: https://literatureandhist

  4. Episode 67: Jaws Dripping Blood (Seneca's Thyestes)

    Seneca's Thyestes, probably written around the 50s CE, is one of the most horrifying and influential plays ever written. Episode 67 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-067/ Episode 67 Transcription: https://literatureandhistory.com/e

  5. Episode 66: Stoicism, Seneca, St. Paul

    Stoicism, starting with Zeno in 300 BCE, was a popular philosophy by the lifetime of Seneca, perhaps even making its way into the New Testament. Episode 66 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-066/ Episode 66 Transcription: https://li

  6. Episode 65: Seneca and the Julio-Claudians (The Life of Seneca)

    Seneca the Younger (c 1 BCE-65 CE) practiced the philosophy of stoicism over the course of several volatile, and very different imperial reigns. Episode 65 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-065/ Episode 65 Transcription: https://li

  7. Episode 64: Ovid's Exile (The Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto)

    For mysterious reasons, in 8 CE, Ovid was exiled from Rome. Ovid's last works were composed an ocean away from Italy, on the western shore of the Black Sea. Episode 64 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-064/ Episode 64 Transcription

  8. Episode 63: All Is in Flux (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 11-15)

    Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 11-15. The vast Metamorphoses draws to a resonant conclusion as Ovid brings his great poem to Rome itself. Episode 63 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-063/ Episode 63 Transcription: https://literaturean

  9. Episode 62: A Curious Passion (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 6-10)

    Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 6-10. In the middle portion of Ovid's great poem, psychological transformations become as gripping as physical ones. Episode 62 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-062/ Episode 62 Transcription: https://li

  10. Episode 61: Changes of Shape (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 1-5)

    This book influenced thousands of years of later literature, and remains one of our best source texts on classical mythology. Episode 61 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-061/ Episode 61 Transcription: https://literatureandhistory.

  11. Episode 60: How to Make Love to a Roman (Ovid's Art of Love and Cure for Love)

    Ovid's Art of Love is ancient Rome's manual of seduction – a record of the steamier side of the Augustan Age. Episode 60 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-060/ Episode 60 Transcription: https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-060-

  12. Episode 59: Early Ovid (Amores, Heroides)

    The love poetry of Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) was standard Latin curriculum for hundreds of years, but it was also the product of a very specific historical moment. Episode 59 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-059/ Episode 59 Transcriptio

  13. Episode 58: She Caught Me with Her Eyes (Propertius' Poetry)

    Propertius (c. 50-1 BCE) took the Latin elegiac form to new heights of complexity and passion, even weaving subtle satire throughout his work. Episode 58 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-058/ Episode 58 Transcription: https://lite

  14. Episode 57: The World Grows Dim and Black (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 10-12)

    Virgil's Aeneid, Books 10-12. The end of Rome's great epic is about something Romans of Virgil's generation knew very well indeed. War. Episode 57 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-057/ Episode 57 Transcription: https://literaturea

  15. Episode 56: I Shall Release Hell (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 7-9)

    Virgil's Aeneid, Books 7-9. Aeneas' arrival in Italy begins auspiciously enough, but soon things take a turn for the worse. Episode 56 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-056/ Episode 56 Transcription: https://literatureandhistory.co

  16. Episode 55: Among the Shades (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 4-6)

    Virgil's Aeneid, Books 4-6. The story of Dido and Aeneas, and his subsequent journey to the underworld, is the heart of Rome's most famous poem. Episode 55 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-055/ Episode 55 Transcription: https://li

  17. Episode 54: Out of Troy (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 1-3)

    Virgil's Aeneid, Books 1-3. The Aeneid is Rome's great epic. Learn the story of its first three books, and when and why Virgil began writing it. Episode 54 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-054/ Episode 54 Transcription: https://li

  18. Episode 53: Then Came Hard Iron (Virgil's Georgics)

    Virgil's Georgics (c. 29 BCE), or agriculture poems, show the poet reaching his full strength as a writer, and using an old form to analyze the history around him. Episode 53 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-053/ Episode 53 Transc

  19. Episode 52: White Flowers Die (Virgil's Eclogues)

    Virgil's Eclogues (c. 38 BCE) are poems about country life. Far from being innocent celebrations, though, they are often cryptic, and filled with a haunting darkness. Episode 52 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-052/ Episode 52 Tra

  20. Episode 51: Horace and Augustan Age Poetry

    Horace (65-8 BCE) was a central figure in shaping Augustan Age tastes in satire and literary criticism. His bumbling, self conscious persona has been charming readers for millennia. Episode 51 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-051/

  21. Episode 50: Our Brutal Age (Horace's Poetry)

    The Roman poet Horace (65-8 BCE), a contemporary of Augustus, endured wars, regime changes, and became a literary spokesman for the new principate. Episode 50 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-050/ Episode 50 Transcription: https:/

  22. Episode 49: The Strange Roots of Love (Catullus' Poetry)

    Catullus (c. 85-54 BCE) is Rome's most famous early poet. Departing from epic tradition, Catullus wrote a canon of short works that have been famous since antiquity. Episode 49 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-049/ Episode 49 Tran

  23. Episode 48: The Right and the Expedient (Cicero's Career, 62-43 BCE)

    Following his consulship, Cicero did his best to salvage the battered Republic, eventually going head to head with the powerful young general Mark Antony. Episode 48 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-048/ Episode 48 Transcription:

  24. Episode 47: O Tempora, O Mores (Cicero's Career, 80-62 BCE)

    The story of Cicero's career is an epic tale, filled with courtroom dramas, corruption, conspiracy, greed, and Cicero's own enduring hope for a better future. Episode 47 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-047/ Episode 47 Transcripti

  25. Episode 46: The Republic at Twilight (Cicero's Early Life)

    Cicero (106-43 BCE) was the undisputed master of the Latin language. During his first thirty years, he witnessed events that heralded the Republic's end. Episode 46 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-046/ Episode 46 Transcription: h

  26. Episode 45: The Uncuttables (Lucretius' On the Nature of Things and Epicureanism)

    Lucretius (c. 94-53 BCE) is our most important source for Epicurean philosophy, perhaps the most misunderstood school of thought from the ancient world. Episode 45 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-045/ Episode 45 Transcription: ht

  27. Episode 44: Homo Sum (Terence's The Brothers)

    The Roman playwright Terence (c. 184-159 BCE) produced a string of brilliant comedies in the 160s BCE. His masterpiece, The Brothers, continues to astonish us today. Episode 44 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-044/ Episode 44 Tran

  28. Episode 43: On the Move (Plautus' The Rope)

    Plautus (c. 254-184 BCE) was a prolific comedy writer. His late play, The Rope, captures the dizzying changes sweeping Rome after the Second Punic War. Episode 43 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-043/ Episode 43 Transcription: htt

  29. Episode 42: The Beginnings of Roman Literature

    Roman literature grew slowly from Greek traditions during the 300s and 200s BCE. Learn about its earliest figures, and how they paved the way for the age of Cicero. Episode 42 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-042/ Episode 42 Trans

  30. Episode 41: Everything So Far

    A retrospective of everything L&H has covered so far, plus some special announcements. Episode 41 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-041/ Episode 41 Transcription: https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-041-everything-so-far Bonus

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