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In the twilight of the Western Empire, Boethius (c. 476-523) served as consul, but ended his life imprisoned by the Ostrogothic King Theodoric, writing The Consolation of Philosophy.
Episode 103 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=351&catid=2
Episode 103 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-103-boethius
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Augustine?s City of God, Part 2 of 2. The second half of the City of God contains some of Late Antiquity?s most influential writings ? most notably Augustine?s take on Original Sin.
Episode 102 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-102-quiz
Episode 102 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-102-an-old-mans-book
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Augustine?s City of God, Part 1 of 2. The first half of the City of God is a broadside against paganism ? its culture, religion, and history, subjects about which Augustine had much to say.
Episode 101 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-101-quiz
Episode 101 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-101-against-the-pagans
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Augustine?s Confessions, Part 2 of 2. The second half of Augustine?s Confessions contains some of the most famous theology in Christian history.
Episode 100 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-100-quiz
Episode 100 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-100-late-have-i-loved-you
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Augustine?s Confessions, Part 1 of 2. The first half of Augustine?s Confessions tells of his wayward early years, his intellectual journey, and his spiritual awakening.
Episode 99 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-99-quiz
Episode 99 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-099-the-boy-who-stole-pears
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Polyglot Jerome (347-420) had a gigantic impact on all subsequent Christian history, leaving behind a huge body of works, including the Latin Bible.
Episode 98 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-98-quiz
Episode 98 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-098-the-life-and-works-of-saint-jerome
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Ancient Greece Declassified Tour:
https://www.greecepodcast.com/tour/
The Dionysiaca, Part 2 of 2. The last surviving Greek epic of antiquity draws to a close with Dionysus fighting wars far to the east, in India.
Episode 96 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-97-quiz
Episode 96 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-097-blood-and-ivy
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The last epic from Greco-Roman antiquity that survives in full, Nonnus? fifth-century Dionysiaca tells of the wine god Dionysus? journey eastward, to India.
Episode 96 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-96-quiz
Episode 96 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-096-the-last-pagan-epic
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In 417 CE, the Roman poet Rutilius Namatianus journeyed from Rome back to his homeland of Gaul, not knowing whether there was a home to return to.
Episode 95 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-95-quiz
Episode 95 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-095-rutilius-namatianus
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One of the later Latin poets of the Empire, Ausonius? expansive body of work gives us a window into the changing world of fourth-century Roman culture.
Episode 94 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-94-quiz
Episode 94 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-094-ausonius
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Sulpicius Severus? (c. 363-425) life of St. Martin is one of the great hagiographies ? a portrait of a timeless saint, but also of a human being and working bishop.
Episode 93 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-93-quiz
Episode 93 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-093-severus-life-of-saint-martin
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Athanasius (c. 297-373) wrote a wildly popular biography of the desert hermit St. Antony, touting the ideals of asceticism and triumph over demonic temptation.
Episode 92 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-92-quiz
Episode 92 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-092-athanasius-life-of-antony
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In Carthage, in 203 CE, a Roman noblewoman and her retinue were butchered in an amphitheater. Learn her story, and the earliest history of Christian martyrs.
Episode 91 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-91-quiz
Episode 91 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-091-the-passion-of-perpetua
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Learn the documentary history behind how the Catholic Church was founded and set up as an organization, together with some of the works of the earliest church fathers.
Episode 90 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-90-quiz
Episode 90 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-090-ante-nicene-catholicism
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Heliodorus of Emesa (3rd/4th century CE) wrote the longest novel to have survived from antiquity, an adventurous romance that reemerged into Europe in the 1500s.
Episode 89 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-89-quiz
Episode 89 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-089-the-aethiopica-of-heliodorus
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Great Anthology of Ancient Greek Fiction:
B.P. Reardon's Collected Ancient Greek Novels
In roughly the 160s CE, the Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata wrote A True History, one of history?s earliest surviving novels, with strong tinges of what we?d call science fiction.
Episode 88 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-88-quiz
Episode 88 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-088-ancient-greek-sci-fi
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The satirist Lucian (c. 125-180) was popular in his own time and during the Renaissance, among other things probably being the first author of science fiction.
Episode 87 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-87-quiz
Episode 87 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-087-lucian-of-samosata
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Once pervasively described as a period of fall and decline, today Late Antiquity is often understood as a period of cultural flowering and economic revolution.
Episode 86 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-86-quiz
Episode 86 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-086-an-introduction-to-late-antiquity
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A primer on Biblical canon formation, retrospective on what we?ve covered so far, and introduction to the upcoming season.
Episode 85 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-085-river
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After 300 CE, Manichaeism spread quickly from its origins in modern day Iraq and Iran. Recent archaeological discoveries have finally allowed us to learn about it firsthand.
Episode 84 Quiz: https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-84-quiz
Episode 84 Transcription: https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-084-manichaeism
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The Nag Hammadi Library, Codex Tchacos, and Berlin Codex, as they came to light in the twentieth century, radically changed our understanding of early Christianity.
HarperOne Nag Hammadi Scriptures https://harperone.com/9780061626005/the-nag-hammadi-scriptures/
Episode 83 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-83-quiz
Episode 83 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-083-gnosticism
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Learn the basic tenets and early history of Zoroastrianism, one of the most important and widespread religions in the ancient world, and possibly earth?s oldest living monotheism.
Episode 82 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-82-quiz
Episode 82 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-082-zoroastrianism
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One of the most spectacular pieces of writing in the world?s religious texts, Revelation influenced generations of writers and theologians.
Episode 81 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-81-quiz
Episode 81 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-081-revelation
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The later epistles of the New Testament show early Christian theology expanding and evolving in the Ancient Mediterranean.
Episode 80 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-80-quiz
Episode 80 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-080-the-general-epistles
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Possibly the most influential theologian in history, Paul codified and clarified Christianity as it emerged into the diverse world of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Episode 79 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-79-quiz
Episode 79 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-079-the-pauline-epistles
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The story of Christianity?s first missionaries is a sweeping , intercontinental narrative, filled with danger, strange encounters, and the hope for a better future.
Episode 78 Quiz:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-78-quiz
Episode 78 Transcription:
https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-078-the-book-of-acts
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Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are the heart of the New Testament. And today, historians and Biblical scholars know more about them than ever before.
Episode 77 Quiz:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-77-quiz
Episode 77 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-077-the-gospels
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The Roman client king Herod (c. 73-4 BCE) ruled Judea for thirty years. Learn about his rule, and the political and religious climate of Judea just before the birth of Christ.
Episode 76 Quiz:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-76-quiz
Episode 76 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-076-judea-under-herod
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A retrospective on the material we?ve covered thus far as we head into Early Christianity and Late Antiquity, plus some announcements.
Episode 75 Transcription: https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-075-dusk-and-starlight
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Marcus Aurelius? Meditations show an intelligent emperor coping with the realities of an empire buckling under its own weight.
Episode 74 Quiz:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-74-quiz
Episode 74 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-73-quiz
Episode 73 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-073-the-golden-ass
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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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-72-quiz
Episode 72 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-072-bread-and-circuses
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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.
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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-70-quiz
Episode 70 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-69-quiz
Episode 69 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-68-quiz
Episode 68 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-67-quiz
Episode 67 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-66-quiz
Episode 66 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-066-seneca-stoicism-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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-65-quiz
Episode 65 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-64-quiz
Episode 64 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-064-ovids-exile
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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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-63-quiz
Episode 63 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/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:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-62-quiz
Episode 62 Transcription:
http://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-062-a-curious-passion
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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
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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:
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
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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:
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
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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:
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
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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:
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
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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:
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
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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:
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
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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:
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
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