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  • Episode 67: Jaws Dripping Blood

    Episode 67: Jaws Dripping Blood

    Seneca’s Thyestes, probably written around the 50s CE, is one of the most horrifying and influential plays ever written.

  • Episode 66: Stoicism, Seneca, St. Paul

    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 65: Seneca and the Julio-Claudians

    Episode 65: Seneca and the Julio-Claudians

    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 64: Ovid’s Exile

    Episode 64: Ovid’s Exile

    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 63: All Is in Flux

    Episode 63: All Is in Flux

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books 11-15. The vast Metamorphoses draws to a resonant conclusion as Ovid brings his great poem to Rome itself.

  • Episode 62: A Curious Passion

    Episode 62: A Curious Passion

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books 6-10. In the middle portion of Ovid’s great poem, psychological transformations become as gripping as physical ones.

  • Episode 61: Changes of Shape

    Episode 61: Changes of Shape

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses influenced thousands of years of later literature, and remains one of our best source texts on classical mythology.

  • Episode 60: How to Make Love to a Roman

    Episode 60: How to Make Love to a Roman

    Ovid’s Art of Love is ancient Rome’s manual of seduction – a record of the steamier side of the Augustan Age.