Classics For Plebs

Classics For Plebs

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Classics For Plebs episodes

  • Metamorphoses - Book Nine: Hercules, Horns and Havoc
    The one where Achelous, a very-boring River god, develops an accent more suited to a bored Northern receptionist, a girl turns into a tree, we finally hear about Hercules, another girl turns into a tree, Ovid reminds us that incest never ends well and, to shake things up a little, a girl turns into a tree…
    19 min
  • Metamorphoses - Book Six: The Wonders of Weaving
    Can you solve the following equations? (Don’t forget to show your working out!)
    1. Arachne had 2 legs. Now she has 8. How did that happen?
    2. Niobe had 14 children. Now she has none. Where did they go?
    Listen on to check your answers and learn so many more bizarre stories in Book Six of Ovid’s Metamorphoses!
    15 min
  • Metamorphoses - Book Three: But First, Wine
    What with sailors turning into lizards, vines with no sense of personal space, and mildly cannibalistic mothers, episode Three of Ovid’s Metamorphoses provides us with a solid moral tale: don’t mess with wine, kids.
    17 min
  • Metamorphoses- Book Two: Crash and Burn
    In episode two we encounter numerous delights such as: 1. why ‘take your demi-god child to immortal work day’ wasn’t encouraged, 2. that Juno has yet more reasons to be angry, and 3. that Mercury enjoys turning mortals into pebbles…
    15 min
  • #CiceroSpecial - The Catilinarian Orations

    It is 63BC. Cicero is consul of Rome. He has made it. He has achieved his lifelong ambition. It literally shouldn't get any better...

    And yet, a grave peril threatens to de-stabilise his consulship, indeed, threatens to destroy the entirety of Rome... in the form of Lucius Sergius Catiline.

    And, of course, there is only one man who can be called upon to save the Republic (...twice).

    I present, in two episodes, a commentary on the four Catilinarian Orations, which Cicero gave to the people and the Senate as the Catilinarian conspiracy against Rome unfolded around them, and then a dramatic, abridged version of the orations themselves.

    53 min

About Classics For Plebs

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Teachers would call it 'lively,' scholars would call it 'unorthodox,' and I'd call it 'honest'...I re-interpret Virgil's Aeneid with a dash of realism and all the underlying sarcastic comments necessary, reminding everyone that the classics are for all of us, always.