Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations shows an intelligent emperor coping with the realities of an empire buckling under its own weight.
Episode 74 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-074/
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https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-074-marcus-aurelius
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Apuleius’ The Golden Ass is Ancient Rome’s only novel to survive in full – a strange, often disturbing fairytale that had a huge influence on posterity.
Episode 73 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-073/
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https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-073-the-golden-ass
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGKpv3xws8E
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Juvenal’s Satires, produced some time in the decades around 100 CE, mercilessly mock some of the more colorful aspects of Roman life.
Episode 72 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-072/
Episode 72 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-072-bread-and-circuses
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-4WYv5JIVU
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Statius’ Thebaid, Books 7-12. Six hundred years after Aeschylus, Statius once again brought the Theban epic to a thunderous conclusion.
Episode 71 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-071/
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https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-071-the-gods-depart
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPrGgcJbnx8
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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/
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https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-070-romes-forgotten-epic
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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/
Episode 69 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-069-romes-comic-novel
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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/
Episode 68 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-068-love-means-sin
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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/
Episode 67 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-067-jaws-dripping-blood
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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
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-066/
Episode 66 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-066-stoicism-seneca-st-paul
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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
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-065/
Episode 65 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-065-seneca-and-the-julio-claudians
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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/
Episode 64 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-064-ovids-exile
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj3nfzO2ZHM
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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/
Episode 63 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-063-all-is-in-flux
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMGX0cwIV2A
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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/
Episode 62 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-062-a-curious-passion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXZIl6DL-gY
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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
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-061/
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https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-061-changes-of-shape
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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-how-to-make-love-to-a-roman
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https://youtu.be/kfx-sjGorVM
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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 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-059-early-ovid
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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://literatureandhistory.com/episode-058-she-caught-me-with-her-eyes
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https://youtu.be/BHEYVxqdztE
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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://literatureandhistory.com/episode-057-the-world-grows-dim-and-black
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https://youtu.be/WRZbUYwdTR0
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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.com/episode-056-i-shall-release-hell
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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://literatureandhistory.com/episode-055-among-the-shades
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https://youtu.be/Uybu1B2qq9o
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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://literatureandhistory.com/episode-054-out-of-troy
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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 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-053-then-came-hard-iron
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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 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-052-white-flowers-die
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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/
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https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-051-horace-and-augustan-poetry
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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://literatureandhistory.com/episode-050-our-brutal-age
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