Literature And History

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-63-quiz Episode 63 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-063-all-is-in-flux Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-62-quiz Episode 62 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-062-a-curious-passion Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books 1-5. This book influenced thousands of years of later literature, and remains one of our best source texts on classical mythology. Episode 61 Quiz: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-61-quiz Episode 61 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-061-changes-of-shape Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-60-quiz Episode 60 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-060-how-to-make-love-to-a-roman Episode 60 Song: "Bad Advice from Ovid" https://youtu.be/kfx-sjGorVM Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-59-quiz Episode 59 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-059-early-ovid Episode 59 Song: "Ovid in Elegiacs" Video https://youtu.be/vE1jkidRthY Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-58-quiz Episode 58 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-058-she-caught-me-with-her-eyes Episode 58 Song: "Arrogant Love Song" https://youtu.be/BHEYVxqdztE Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-57-quiz Episode 57 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-057-the-world-grows-dim-and-black Episode 57 Song: "Dear Pallas" https://youtu.be/WRZbUYwdTR0 Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-56-quiz Episode 56 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-056-i-shall-release-hell Episode 56 Song: "Another Siege" https://youtu.be/bjqsZbGL8oM Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-55-quiz Episode 55 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-055-among-the-shades Episode 55 Song: "The Gods Are Insane" https://youtu.be/Uybu1B2qq9o Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-54-quiz Episode 54 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-054-out-of-troy Episode 54 Song: "The Epic Cycle Waltz" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcJgKUMS8k8 Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-53-quiz Episode 53 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-053-then-came-hard-iron Episode 53 Song: "The Ancient Republican" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzNAutei6wA Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

Virgil’s Eclogues (c. 38 BCE) are poems about country life. Far from being innocent celebrations, though they are often cryptic filled with a haunting darkness. Episode 52 Quiz: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-52-quiz Episode 52 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-052-white-flowers-die Episode 52 Song: "Cyclops Power Ballad" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZOiQL5aJAA Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-51-quiz Episode 51 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-051-horace-and-augustan-poetry Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-50-quiz Episode 50 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-050-our-brutal-age Episode 50 Song: "Augustus Asks for an Epic" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU6nk9luAm8 Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-49-quiz Episode 49 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-049-the-strange-roots-of-love Episode 49 Song: "Catullus' Love Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQERneu-mQ Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-48-quiz Episode 48 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-048-the-right-and-the-expedient Episode 48 Song: "The Last Philippic" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES5WpZ1GH-A Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-47-quiz Episode 47 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-047-o-tempora-o-mores Episode 47 Song: "First Catilinarian Rap" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDvjHnY6e9Q Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-46-quiz Episode 46 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-046-the-republic-at-twilight Episode 46 Song: "Roman Senate Barbershop" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgg9aMq7gs Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-45-quiz Episode 45 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-045-the-uncuttables Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory

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: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-44-quiz Episode 44 Transcription: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-044-homo-sum Episode 44 Song: "Would You Like to Be My Son?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdwb60Hn1-8 Bonus Content: http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory