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Classics For Plebs
By AtticaHistory
Classics For Plebs episodes
- The Aeneid - Book Four: Dido
The Big One.
The gods set into motion the next stage in their games, and enjoy the most fun they've had since they made Paris choose between Juno, Venus and Athena. It's all gonna come down in flames, whether the Fates want it to or not...
29 min - The Aeneid - Book Three: The Odyssey - A Fanfic
In this slightly shorter episode, Aeneas (finally) finishes his tale, nicely summarising the adventures of Odysseus...Sorry, I mean...nicely summarising his OWN adventures, of course, before reaching Dido...#imitationisflattery...
18 min - The Aeneid - Book Two: The Fall of Troy
In Book Two, Aeneas begins his very, very tragic tale of his immense and endless suffering (which was, yes, even greater than Odysseus') as he narrates the fall of Troy.
36 min - The Aeneid - Book One: A Shipwreck and a Feast
Re-interpreting The Aeneid in my...'honest' words, Book One introduces us to the slightly-angsty Aeneas, the charismatic Dido, and the mild, unrelenting wrath of the gods...
34 min
About Classics For Plebs
From the publisher's feed
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.
(ps. in Rome, the plebs were the ordinary people. You and me. This is Classics, for Us).
Bonus points: if you're studying Classics right now, I made sure to include all those important bits that'll definitely come up in your exams...