Latin Poetry Podcast

Latin Poetry Podcast 81 - Dawn at Thebes (Seneca, Hercules Furens 125-201)

The Latin Poetry Podcast is a series of short Latin passages, discussed, translated, and read aloud by Christopher Francese, Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies at Dickinson College

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Latin Poetry Podcast

Episodes

Dawn at Thebes (Seneca, Hercules Furens 125-201)

Seneca Hecules Furens 1-29

Phaedra to Hippolytus, part 4 (Ovid, Heroides 4.147-176)

Phaedra to Hippolytus, part 3 (Ovid, Heroides 4.105-146)

Phaedra to Hippolytus, part 2 (Ovid, Heroides 4.37-84

Phaedra to Hippolytus (Ovid, Heroides 4.1-36)

Briseis to Achilles part 1 (Ovid, Heroides 3.1-66)

Phyllis to Demophoon part 2 (Ovid, Heroides 2.49-148)

Phyllis to Demophoon, part 1: Ovid, Heroides 2.1-48

Penelope to Odysseus, part 3 (Ovid, Heroides 1.75-116)

Penelope to Odysseus part 2 (Ovid, Heroides 1.37-74)

Penelope to Odysseus (Ovid, Heroides 1.1-36)

Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy 1.P4

Hecuba Tiger Queen

Catullus and Martial on Unguents

Seneca, Medea 895-910

J.K. Rowling and Peter Needham: Distribuens Petasus

Reynard and the Side of Bacon (Ysengrimus 1.269-288)

Claudian on Mules (De Mulabus Gallicis)

Now winter’s grip loosens (Horace, Odes 1.4)

Wish to Be What You Are (Martial, Epigrams 10.47)

A Fabulous Punishment (Martial, De Spectaculis 7)

A cure for madness (Quintus Serenus, Liber Medicinalis 1.87-99)

Bring Vergil back (Horace, Odes 1.3)

Horace’s Lyric Meters 2: Sapphic (Odes 1.2)

Horace’s lyric meters: Asclepiadeans (Odes 1.1)

Not Going Back There (Phaedrus, Fables 1.18)

The Fall of Rome

The Wrath of Iarbas (Vergil, Aeneid 4.196-218)

On translating Vergil (Aeneid 1.305-309, 6.26-27)

O Socii (Vergil, Aeneid 1.198-209)

Always a Listener (Juvenal, Satire 1.1-21)

The Elephant (Anth. Lat. 187)

The Glory of Spain (Claudian, Laus Serenae 50-69)

The Art of Love (Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.1-24)

Heavenly Food (Prudentius, Psychomachia Pref. 29-44)

The Peaceful Heart (Prudentius, Psychomachia 779-784)

Horace, Odes 1.1

Some Hexamater lists

To a Glutton (Francesco Filelfo, Odes 1.9)

To Aelia Secundula (CIL 8.20277)

Decimus Laberius

Quintilian on pauses in Aeneid 1.1-8

Arms and the Man (Aeneid 1.1-11)

Oedipus’ self-blinding (Seneca, Oedipus 960-979)

Laocoon (Vergil, Aeneid 2. 199-227)

The Parthian Arrow (Prudentius, Hamartigenia 531-552)

Of Mice and Weasels (Phaedrus, Fables 4.6)

To Venus (Horace, Odes 1.30)

Jupiter, Life of the Elements (Avienus, Phaenomena 1-23, 41-45)