| # | Episode Title | Episode Subject | Quiz | Show Transcription | |
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1 | The Tower of Babel | Cuneiform and Mesopotamia | Start Quiz |  |
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2 | Before the Flood | The Enuma Elish and Atrahasis | Start Quiz | |
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3 | He Who Saw the Deep | The Epic of Gilgamesh | Start Quiz | |
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4 | Divine Justice | The Book of the Dead | Start Quiz | |
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5 | Beneath the Obelisks | Ancient Egyptian Fiction | Start Quiz | |
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6 | The Pros and Cons of Wisdom | Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Literature | Start Quiz | |
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7 | Hesiod's Lands and Seasons | Works and Days | Start Quiz | |
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8 | Before Orthodoxy | Hesiod's Theogony | Start Quiz | |
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9 | Glittering Bronze Men | The Iliad, Books 1-8 | Start Quiz | |
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10 | Homer's Gods | The Iliad, Books 9-16 | Start Quiz | |
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11 | Who Was Homer | The Iliad, Books 17-24 | Start Quiz | |
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12 | Kleos and Nostos | The Odyssey, Books 1-8 | Start Quiz | |
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13 | His Mind Teeming | The Odyssey, Books 9-16 | Start Quiz | |
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14 | The Autumn Leaves | The Odyssey, Books 17-24 | Start Quiz | |
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15 | Canaan | Biblical Archaeology | Start Quiz | |
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16 | Four Main Parts | The Old Testament's Structure | Start Quiz | |
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17 | The Roots of the Pentateuch | Genesis-Deuteronomy | Start Quiz | |
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18 | The 613 Commandments | Genesis-Deuteronomy | Start Quiz | |
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19 | The One Who Struggles with God | Joshua-Esther | Start Quiz | |
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20 | The Problem of Evil | The Book of Job | Start Quiz | |
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21 | The Bible's Magic Trick | Psalms | Start Quiz | |
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22 | Fatalism | Ecclesiastes | Start Quiz | |
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23 | Love. Desire. Exegesis. | The Song of Songs | Start Quiz | |
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24 | The One Who Struggles with God | The Prophetic Books | Start Quiz | |
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25 | Lyrical Ballistics | Archaic Greek Lyrical Poetry | Start Quiz | |
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26 | Ancient Greek Theater | The Athenian City Dionysia | Start Quiz | |
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27 | The Bloody King | Aeschylus' Agamemnon | Start Quiz | |
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28 | A Mother's Curse | Aeschylus' The Libation Bearers | Start Quiz | |
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29 | The Mound and the Furies | Aeschylus' Eumenides | Start Quiz | |
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30 | Two Legs in the Afternoon | Sophocles' Oedipus the King | Start Quiz | |
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31 | The Requiem at Athens | Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus | Start Quiz | |
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32 | Trees Bending to the Torrent | Sophocles' Antigone | Start Quiz | |
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33 | Woman the Barbarian | Euripides' Medea | Start Quiz | |
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34 | The Traditions of Our Forefathers | Euripides' The Bacchae | Start Quiz | |
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35 | The Great Thundercrap | Aristophanes' The Clouds | Start Quiz | |
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36 | War and Peace and Sex | Aristophanes' Lysistrata | Start Quiz | |
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37 | The New Comedy | Menander's Old Cantankerous | Start Quiz | |
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38 | The Epic Anti-Hero | Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts, Books 1-2 | Start Quiz | |
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39 | Medea and the Argonauts | Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts, Books 1-2 | Start Quiz | |
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40 | Hellenism and the Birth of the Self | Cultural Changes of the Hellenistic Period | Start Quiz | |
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41 | Everything So Far | Review | Start Exam | |
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42 | The Beginnings of Roman Literature | Roman Literature, 364-160 BCE | Start Quiz | |
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43 | On the Move | Plautus' The Rope | Start Quiz | |
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44 | Homo Sum | Terence's The Brothers | Start Quiz | |
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45 | The Uncuttables | Lucretius' On the Nature of Things | Start Quiz | |
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46 | The Republic at Twilight | The Late Republic and Cicero's Early Life | Start Quiz | |
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47 | O Tempora, O Mores | Cicero's Career Up to 62 BCE | Start Quiz | |
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48 | The Right and the Expedient | Cicero's Career After 62 BCE | Start Quiz | |
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49 | The Strange Roots of Love | The Poetry of Catullus | Start Quiz | |
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50 | Our Brutal Age | The Poetry of Horace | Start Quiz | |
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51 | Horace and Augustan Poetry | The Poetry of Horace | Start Quiz | |
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52 | White Flowers Die | Virgil's Eclogues | Start Quiz | |
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53 | Then Came Hard Iron | Virgil's Georgics | Start Quiz | |
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54 | Out of Troy | Virgil's Aeneid, Books 1-3 | Start Quiz | |
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55 | Among the Shades | Virgil's Aeneid, Books 4-6 | Start Quiz | |
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56 | I Shall Release Hell | Virgil's Aeneid, Books 7-9 | Start Quiz | |
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57 | The World Grows Dim and Black | Virgil's Aeneid, Books 10-12 | Start Quiz | |
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58 | She Caught Me with Her Eyes | The Poetry of Propertius | Start Quiz | |
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59 | Early Ovid | The Amores and Heroides | Start Quiz | |
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60 | How to Make Love to a Roman | The Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris | Start Quiz | |
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61 | Changes of Shape | Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 1-5 | Start Quiz | |
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62 | A Curious Passion | Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 6-10 | Start Quiz | |
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63 | All Is in Flux | Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 11-15 | Start Quiz | |
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64 | Ovid's Exile | The Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto | Start Quiz | |
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65 | Seneca and the Julio-Claudians | The Life and Works of Seneca the Younger | Start Quiz | |
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66 | Stoicism, Seneca, St. Paul | Stoic Philosophy and the New Testament | Start Quiz | |
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67 | Jaws Dripping Blood | Seneca's Thyestes | Start Quiz | |
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68 | Love Means Sin | Seneca's Phaedra | Start Quiz | |
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69 | Rome's Comic Novel | Petronius' Satyricon | Start Quiz | |
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70 | Rome's Forgotten Epic | Statius' Thebaid | Start Quiz | |
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71 | The Gods Depart | Statius' Thebaid | Start Quiz | |
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72 | Bread and Circuses | Juvenal's Satires | Start Quiz | |
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73 | The Golden Ass | The Golden Ass | Start Quiz | |
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74 | Marcus Aurelius | The Meditations | Start Quiz | |
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76 | Judea Under Herod | The history of Judea during the first century BCE. | Start Quiz | |
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77 | The Gospels | Matthew, Mark, Luke and John | Start Quiz | |
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78 | The Book of Acts | The New Testament Book of Acts | Start Quiz | |
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79 | The Pauline Epistles | The Letters of Saint Paul c. 50-65 CE | Start Quiz | |
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80 | The General Epistles | The Epistles of James, John, Peter and Jude | Start Quiz | |
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81 | Revelation | The Apocalypse of John | Start Quiz | |
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82 | Zoroastrianism | The Avesta | Start Quiz | |
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83 | Gnosticism | The Nag Hammadi Library, Codex Tchacos and Berlin Codex | Start Quiz | |
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84 | Manichaeism | Manichaean Texts from Egypt and Xinjiang | Start Quiz | |
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86 | An Introduction to Late Antiquity | European and Mediterranean History, c. 200-700 CE | Start Quiz | |
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87 | Lucian of Samosata | The Short Works of Lucian of Samosata | Start Quiz | |
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88 | Ancient Greek Sci-fi | Lucian's A True Story | Start Quiz | |
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89 | The Aethiopica of Heliodorus | Heliodorus' Aethiopica | Start Quiz | |
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90 | Ante-Nicene Catholicism | Catholic Church History from c.60 - 200 CE | Start Quiz | |
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91 | The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity | Early Christian Martyr Narratives | Start Quiz | |
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92 | Athanasius' Life of Antony | The Life of Antony and Eremitic Saints' Lives | Start Quiz | |
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93 | Severus' Life of Saint Martin | The Life of Saint Martin and Priscillianist Controversy | Start Quiz | |
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94 | Ausonius | The Poetry of Ausonius | Start Quiz | |
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95 | Rutilius Namatianus | De Reditu Suo | Start Quiz | |
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96 | The Last Pagan Epic | The Dionysiaca, Books 1-24 | Start Quiz | |
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97 | Blood and Ivy | The Dionysiaca, Books 25-48 | Start Quiz | |
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98 | The Life and Works of Saint Jerome | Jerome's Writings, 370-420 | Start Quiz | |
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99 | The Boy Who Stole Pears | Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-7 | Start Quiz | |
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100 | Late Have I Loved You | Augustine's Confessions, Books 8-13 | Start Quiz | |
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101 | Against the Pagans | Augustine's City of God, Books 1-10 | Start Quiz | |
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102 | An Old Man's Book | Augustine's City of God, Books 11-22 | Start Quiz | |
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103 | Boethius | Boethius' On the Consolation of Philosophy | Start Quiz | |
| # | Episode Title | Episode Subject | Quiz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 | The Tower of Babel | Cuneiform and Mesopotamia | Start Quiz |
|
2 | Before the Flood | The Enuma Elish and Atrahasis | Start Quiz |
|
3 | He Who Saw the Deep | The Epic of Gilgamesh | Start Quiz |
|
4 | Divine Justice | The Book of the Dead | Start Quiz |
|
5 | Beneath the Obelisks | Ancient Egyptian Fiction | Start Quiz |
|
6 | The Pros and Cons of Wisdom | Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Literature | Start Quiz |
|
7 | Hesiod's Lands and Seasons | Works and Days | Start Quiz |
|
8 | Before Orthodoxy | Hesiod's Theogony | Start Quiz |
|
9 | Glittering Bronze Men | The Iliad, Books 1-8 | Start Quiz |
|
10 | Homer's Gods | The Iliad, Books 9-16 | Start Quiz |
|
11 | Who Was Homer | The Iliad, Books 17-24 | Start Quiz |
|
12 | Kleos and Nostos | The Odyssey, Books 1-8 | Start Quiz |
|
13 | His Mind Teeming | The Odyssey, Books 9-16 | Start Quiz |
|
14 | The Autumn Leaves | The Odyssey, Books 17-24 | Start Quiz |
|
15 | Canaan | Biblical Archaeology | Start Quiz |
|
16 | Four Main Parts | The Old Testament's Structure | Start Quiz |
|
17 | The Roots of the Pentateuch | Genesis-Deuteronomy | Start Quiz |
|
18 | The 613 Commandments | Genesis-Deuteronomy | Start Quiz |
|
19 | The One Who Struggles with God | Joshua-Esther | Start Quiz |
|
20 | The Problem of Evil | The Book of Job | Start Quiz |
|
21 | The Bible's Magic Trick | Psalms | Start Quiz |
|
22 | Fatalism | Ecclesiastes | Start Quiz |
|
23 | Love. Desire. Exegesis. | The Song of Songs | Start Quiz |
|
24 | God May Relent | The Prophetic Books | Start Quiz |
|
25 | Lyrical Ballistics | Archaic Greek Lyrical Poetry | Start Quiz |
|
26 | Ancient Greek Theater | The Athenian City Dionysia | Start Quiz |
|
27 | The Bloody King | Aeschylus' Agamemnon | Start Quiz |
|
28 | A Mother's Curse | Aeschylus' The Libation Bearers | Start Quiz |
|
29 | The Mound and the Furies | Aeschylus' Eumenides | Start Quiz |
|
30 | Two Legs in the Afternoon | Sophocles' Oedipus the King | Start Quiz |
|
31 | The Requiem at Athens | Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus | Start Quiz |
|
32 | Trees Bending to the Torrent | Sophocles' Antigone | Start Quiz |
|
33 | Woman the Barbarian | Euripides' Medea | Start Quiz |
|
34 | The Traditions of Our Forefathers | Euripides' The Bacchae | Start Quiz |
|
35 | The Great Thundercrap | Aristophanes' The Clouds | Start Quiz |
|
36 | War and Peace and Sex | Aristophanes' Lysistrata | Start Quiz |
|
37 | The New Comedy | Menander's Old Cantankerous | Start Quiz |
|
38 | The Epic Anti-Hero | Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts, Books 1-2 | Start Quiz |
|
39 | Medea and the Argonauts | Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts, Books 1-2 | Start Quiz |
|
40 | Hellenism and the Birth of the Self | Cultural Changes of the Hellenistic Period | Start Quiz |
|
41 | Everything So Far | Review | Start Exam |
|
42 | The Beginnings of Roman Literature | Roman Literature, 364-160 BCE | Start Quiz |
|
43 | On the Move | Plautus' The Rope | Start Quiz |
|
44 | Homo Sum | Terence's The Brothers | Start Quiz |
|
45 | The Uncuttables | Lucretius' On the Nature of Things | Start Quiz |
|
46 | The Republic at Twilight | The Late Republic and Cicero's Early Life | Start Quiz |
|
47 | O Tempora, O Mores! | Cicero's Career Up to 62 BCE | Start Quiz |
|
48 | The Right and the Expedient | Cicero's Career After 62 BCE | Start Quiz |
|
49 | The Strange Roots of Love | The Poetry of Catullus | Start Quiz |
|
50 | Our Brutal Age | The Poetry of Horace | Start Quiz |
|
51 | Horace and Augustan Poetry | The Poetry of Horace | Start Quiz |
|
52 | White Flowers Die | Virgil's Eclogues | Start Quiz |
|
53 | Then Came Hard Iron | Virgil's Georgics | Start Quiz |
|
54 | Out of Troy | Virgil's Aeneid, Books 1-3 | Start Quiz |
|
55 | Among the Shades | Virgil's Aeneid, Books 4-6 | Start Quiz |
|
56 | I Shall Release Hell | Virgil's Aeneid, Books 7-9 | Start Quiz |
|
57 | The World Grows Dim and Black | Virgil's Aeneid, Books 10-12 | Start Quiz |
|
58 | She Caught Me with Her Eyes | The Poetry of Propertius | Start Quiz |
|
59 | Early Ovid | The Amores and Heroides | Start Quiz |
|
60 | How to Make Love to a Roman | The Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris | Start Quiz |
|
61 | Changes of Shape | Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 1-3 | Start Quiz |
|
62 | A Curious Passion | Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 6-10 | Start Quiz |
|
63 | All Is in Flux | Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 11-15 | Start Quiz |
|
64 | Ovid's Exile | Ovid's Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto | Start Quiz |
|
65 | Seneca and the Julio-Claudians | The Life and Works of Seneca the Younger | Start Quiz |
|
66 | Stoicism, Seneca, St. Paul | Stoic Philosophy and the New Testament | Start Quiz |
|
67 | Jaws Dripping Blood | Seneca's Thyestes | Start Quiz |
|
68 | Love Means Sin | Seneca's Phaedra | Start Quiz |
|
69 | Rome's Comic Novel | Petronius' Satyricon | Start Quiz |
|
70 | Rome's Forgotten Epic | Statius' Thebaid | Start Quiz |
|
71 | The Gods Depart | Statius' Thebaid | Start Quiz |
|
72 | Bread and Circuses | Juvenal's Satires | Start Quiz |
|
73 | The Golden Ass | The Golden Ass | Start Quiz |
|
74 | Marcus Aurelius | The Meditations | Start Quiz |
|
76 | Judea Under Herod | The history of Judea during the first century BCE. | Start Quiz |
|
77 | The Gospels | Matthew, Mark, Luke and John | Start Quiz |
|
78 | The Book of Acts | The New Testament Book of Acts | Start Quiz |
|
79 | The Pauline Epistles | The Letters of Saint Paul c. 50-65 CE | Start Quiz |
|
80 | The General Epistles | The Letters pf James, John, Peter and Jude | Start Quiz |
|
81 | Revelation | The Apocalypse of John | Start Quiz |
|
82 | Zoroastrianism | The Avesta | Start Quiz |
|
83 | Gnosticism | The Nag Hammadi Library, Codex Tchacos and Berlin Codex | Start Quiz |
|
84 | Manichaeism | Manichaean Texts from Egypt and Xinjiang | Start Quiz |
|
86 | An Introduction to Late Antiquity | European and Mediterranean History, c. 200-700 CE | Start Quiz |
|
87 | Lucian of Samosata | The Short Works of Lucian of Samosata | Start Quiz |
|
88 | Ancient Greek Sci-fi | Lucian's A True Story | Start Quiz |
|
90 | Ante-Nicene Catholicism | Catholic Church History from c.60 - 200 CE | Start Quiz |
|
91 | The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity | Early Christian Martyr Narratives | Start Quiz |
|
92 | Athanasius' Life of Antony | The Life of Antony and Eremitic Saints' Lives | Start Quiz |
|
93 | Severus' Life of Saint Martin | The Life of Saint Martin and Priscillianist Controversy | Start Quiz |
|
94 | Ausonius | The Poetry of Ausonius | Start Quiz |
|
95 | Rutilius Namatianus | De Reditu Suo | Start Quiz |
|
96 | The Last Pagan Epic | The Dionysiaca, Books 1-24 | Start Quiz |
|
97 | Blood and Ivy | The Dionysiaca, Books 25-48 | Start Quiz |
|
98 | The Life and Works of Saint Jerome | Jerome's Writings, 370-420 | Start Quiz |
|
99 | The Boy Who Stole Pears | Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-7 | Start Quiz |
|
100 | Late Have I Loved You | Augustine's Confessions, Books 8-13 | Start Quiz |
|
101 | Agaisnt the Pagans | Augustine's City of God, Books 1-10 | Start Quiz |
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102 | An Old Man's Book | Augustine's City of God, Books 11-22 | Start Quiz |
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103 | Boethius | Boethius' On the Consolation of Philosophy | Start Quiz |