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 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-049-the-strange-roots-of-love
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQERneu-mQ
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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:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-048-the-right-and-the-expedient
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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 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-047-o-tempora-o-mores
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDvjHnY6e9Q
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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:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-046-the-republic-at-twilight
Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgg9aMq7gs
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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/
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https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-045-the-uncuttables
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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 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-044-homo-sum
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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:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-043-on-the-move
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsrdUFmhiUI
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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 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-042-the-beginnings-of-roman-literature
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OPNayS4wJ8
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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
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The Hellenistic period – 330-30 BCE, saw Alexander’s successor kingdoms rotting away in the east, the rise of Rome, and the beginnings of modern consciousness.
Episode 40 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-040/
Episode 40 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-040-hellenism-and-the-rise-of-the-self
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Apollonius’ Jason and the Argonauts, Books 3-4. Mesmerizing Medea takes center stage at the Argonautica’s end, dominating the epic’s events.
Episode 39 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-039/
Episode 39 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-039-medea-and-the-argonauts
Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BqyO8XFT5U
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Jason and the Argonauts, Books 1-2. Journey with Jason to find the Golden Fleece, and learn about the Greco-Egyptian writer, Apollonius of Rhodes.
Episode 38 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-038/
Episode 38 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-038-the-epic-anti-hero
Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRSbaaK-i4
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Menander’s Old Cantankerous (316 BCE), produced during the New Comedy period, shows theater beginning to take on its modern form.
Episode 37 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-037/
Episode 37 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-037-the-new-comedy
Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc2BYWLWtLw
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Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, with all of its nudity, sex, and explicit language, was nonetheless his most powerful salvo against the Peloponnesian War.
Episode 36 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-036/
Episode 36 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-036-war-and-peace-and-sex
Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaJxAK0HAxU
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Aristophanes’ The Clouds is a dazzling satire on Athenian philosophy, showing a very different Socrates than Plato’s.
Episode 35 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-035/
Episode 35 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-035-the-great-thundercrap
Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhAbkjs9HWA
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Euripides’ The Bacchae, one of the darkest and bloodiest works of Ancient Greek tragedy, is about the spread of cult religions during the late Peloponnesian War.
Episode 34 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-034/
Episode 34 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-034-the-traditions-of-our-forefathers
Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxd0jATUZ-s
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Euripides’ Medea is Ancient Greece’s most famous play. But what did it mean to the Athenians in 431 BCE who watched it on the Acropolis?
Episode 33 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-033/
Episode 33 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-033-woman-the-barbarian
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EaIXjT4uw0
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Sophocles’ Theban Plays, 3 of 3. Antigone is a timeless and dark story about a clash of wills. But it’s also fascinating snapshot of the philosophical brawls of 5th-century BCE Athens.
Episode 32 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-32/
Episode 32 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-032-trees-bending-to-the-torrent
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwFjCe1JkVk
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Sophocles’ Theban Plays, 2 of 3. Oedipus at Colonus, out of the ashes of the Peloponnesian War, is a story about a man who has lost everything but his own dignity.
Episode 31 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-031/
Episode 31 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-031-the-requiem-at-athens
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z388AMTL9bE
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Sophocles’ Theban Plays, 1 of 3. Oedipus the King is one of literature’s great stories. It’s also a haunting window into the fears of war torn Athens in 429 BCE.
Episode 30 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-030/
Episode 30 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-030-two-legs-in-the-afternoon
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MroDLpX9Osg&t=257s
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Aeschylus’ Oresteian Trilogy, 3 of 3. Pursued all the away to Athens by the monstrous Furies, will Orestes prevail, or be torn apart?
Episode 29 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-029/
Episode 29 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-029-the-mound-and-the-furies
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Aeschylus’ Oresteian Trilogy, 2 of 3. The infernal House of Atreus had witnessed almost every imaginable act of depravity. Except for one.
Episode 28 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-028/
Episode 28 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-028-a-mothers-curse
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3i2bnVuvks
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Aeschylus’ Oresteian Trilogy, 1 of 3. A terrible family curse. A wronged queen. The Trojan War was only the start of the bloodshed.
Episode 27 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-027/
Episode 27 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-027-the-bloody-king
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Masks. Choruses. Huge prosthetic penises. Before you read Sophocles, Euripides, and company, it’s a good idea to know a bit about Ancient Greek theater.
Episode 26 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-026/
Episode 26 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-026-ancient-greek-theater
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IPMk-r9QEw
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The work of Sappho, Pindar, and other remarkable Greek lyric poets makes us question everything we think we know about poetry, what it is, and what it does.
Episode 25 Quiz
https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-025/
Episode 25 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-025-lyrical-ballistics
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO7YW3l7I8g
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