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.
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-063-all-is-in-flux
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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/
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https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-062-a-curious-passion
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This book influenced thousands of years of later literature, and remains one of our best source texts on classical mythology.
Episode 61 Quiz
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