About Kefalonia, Roman baths, and the search for the real Odysseus.

The documentary Odysseus Returns premiered on PBS in August of 2024. The description of the film on the PBS website reads as follows: “An amateur historian, Makis Metaxas, claims he found the bones of Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s epic poem, the Odyssey. But the discovery is soon embroiled in controversy, and Makis embarks on his own odyssey to convince the world he is right.” 

Ismini Miliaresis appears in this documentary, not only as an expert in the field of classical archaeology but also as someone who has a fascinating personal connection to this story. Ismini received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. After working as an engineer for several years, she returned to school and completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Virginia. She has published articles about the Stabian Baths of Pompeii and the Forum Baths of Ostia, and she has taught at such institutions as the American University of Rome, the University of Missouri, and the University of Virginia.  

Recorded in November of 2024

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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About England, the family of Caecilius, and revisions to a classic textbook about the classical world. 

Caroline Bristow is the Director of the Cambridge School Classics Project. After earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in ancient history from the University of Oxford, she worked as a teacher for several years, teaching subjects such as classical civilization, classical Greek, religion, philosophy, and anthropology. She then moved on to become a Classics and Religious Studies Subject Specialist, working closely with the Department of Education to develop subject-specific guidelines and policies. In her role as Director of the Cambridge School Classics Project, a position she has held since 2017, Caroline oversees the Cambridge Latin Course, coordinates teacher support and training, participates in public outreach, and endeavors to make the ancient world accessible to a wide audience of students by advancing Classics pedagogy through research-based methodology. 

UK School Latin Course Overhauled to Reflect Diversity of Roman World: The Guardian, July 10, 2022

CLARIFICATION: In the North American 5th Edition of the Cambridge Latin Course, the character Barbillus appears AFTER Stage 16 (i.e., in Stage 17).

Recorded in October of 2024

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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About the Olympics, Athenian demagogues, and the importance of cultivating a love of Latin in local communities.

Bob Simmons is an Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. His research interests include Athenian demagogues, political and social conflict in 5th-century Athens, and sports in ancient Greece and Rome. He is the author of Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens: Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon, a book published by Bloomsbury in 2023. Over the course of his career, Bob has received such recognitions as the Award for Excellence in College Teaching from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, the Outreach Prize from the Society for Classical Studies, and the Charles Humphreys Award for Innovative Pedagogy from the American Classical League. In the summer of 2024, he served as the Co-Director of The Ancient Olympics and Daily Life in Ancient Olympia: A Hands-On History, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for K-12 teachers. 

The other Co-Director of this NEH Institute – friend of the podcast Nathalie Roy. You can learn more about Nathalie and her innovative approach to classical studies in Episode 31 and Episode 3.

How Can We Save Latin in our Public High Schools? (Bob's 2019 article for the SCS Blog)

Show Me the Money: Pliny, Trajan, and the Iselastic Games (referenced by Bob at the very end of the episode)

Recorded in July of 2024

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠⁠⁠

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About Cleopatra’s daughter, ancient prosthetic limbs, and the representation of women from antiquity in video games. 

Jane Draycott is a Lecturer in Classics and Co-Director of the Games and Gaming Lab at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include the Roman territories of Egypt and Mauretania, science, technology, and medicine in the classical world, and video games set in classical antiquity. She received a B.A. in Archaeology and Ancient History and an M.A. in Ancient History from Cardiff University, a master’s degree in Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology from Cranfield University, and a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Nottingham. Jane is the author of Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen, a biography first published in the United Kingdom in 2022, and she shares her expertise about Cleopatra’s daughter in Episode 3 of Queens of Ancient Egypt, a 2023 television documentary series.

Recorded in July of 2024

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠⁠

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About Mississippi, the National Spelling Bee, and leaving the field of journalism to become a Latin teacher.

Sierra Mannie teaches Latin at Hunter College High School in New York City. Before she began teaching, however, she worked as a writer and journalist, with articles and editorials appearing in such publications as Time Magazine, the Jackson Free Press, and The Hechinger Report. More recently, she has also been a writer for the ABC television game show The Chase. Sierra received a bachelor’s degree in Classics and English from the University of Mississippi and a master’s degree in education from Hunter College. In 2017, she delivered a TEDx Millsaps College presentation entitled Tempora, Mores, and Other Complaints.

Recorded in November of 2023.

⁠⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠

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About tattoos, great books, and the dark side of the subjunctive.

Phuc Tran is the author of "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In," published by Flatiron Books in 2020. "Sigh, Gone" received the New England Book Award and the Maine Literary Award, and it was also named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon. Phuc received a bachelor’s degree from Bard College and a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and he spent more than 20 years as a high school Latin teacher.  

In addition to his work as a classicist, writer, teacher, and tattoo artist, Phuc is known for his popular TEDx presentation entitled “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive.” A resident of Portland, Maine, he is also an occasional contributor to Maine Public Radio. 

Recorded in November of 2023.

⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠

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Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to [email protected]. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying ⁠⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠⁠, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.

About Ronnie Ancona, Nava Cohen, John Gruber-Miller, and Mark Pearsall.

The American Classical League Merens (Meritus / Merita) Award is intended to recognize educators who are, as the name of the award signifies, deserving of appreciation for their "sustained and distinguished service to the Classics profession generally and to ACL in particular." In 2023, there are four recipients of this award, and in a special episode of the Quintilian podcast, we're going to speak with all of them: Ronnie Ancona, Professor of Classics at Hunter College in New York City and former editor of The Classical Outlook; Nava Cohen, a long-time elementary and middle school teacher in Illinois who is now a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University; John Gruber-Miller, a Professor of Classical Studies at Cornell College in Iowa and founding editor of Teaching Classical Languages; and Mark Pearsall, a teacher of both Latin and Greek at Glastonbury High School in Connecticut and one of the original architects of the ALIRA proficiency exam.

Recorded in July of 2023.

Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠⁠

Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to [email protected]. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.

About Vindolanda, the Via Caledonia, and the fusion of Classics and STEM.

Recorded in July of 2023.

⁠⁠Quintilian⁠⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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About Cincinnati, Bob Dylan and the classical tradition, and lessons from the fall of the Roman Republic for the American people.

Thomas Strunk is an Associate Professor of Classics and Director of the Classics and Philosophy Honors Bachelor of Arts Program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a B.A. in Classical Studies and History from Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Loyola University Chicago. His research interests include Tacitus, Cato the Younger, the politics of the late Roman Republic, and Bob Dylan and the classical tradition. His most recent book is On the Fall of the Roman Republic: Lessons for the American People, published by Anthem Press in 2022.

Recorded in July of 2023.

⁠Quintilian⁠ is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠⁠⁠

Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to [email protected]. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying ⁠Quintilian⁠, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.

About MovieTalks, detoxing from the textbook, and the challenges involved in coordinating a large program with multiple teachers.

Rachel Ash and Keith Toda are two of the Latin teachers at Parkview High School, a large public school in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Rachel earned a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.A. from the University of Florida. She currently serves as Treasurer of the American Classical League and as State Chair of the Georgia Junior Classical League, and in the past, she has served as Chair of Excellence Through Classics, the ACL division that is dedicated to promoting and supporting elementary, middle school, and introductory classical studies programs. Keith earned a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles, an M.A. from the University of Georgia, and an Ed.S. in Instructional Technology from Kennesaw State University. He has served as President of the Georgia Classical Association and as Chair of the American Classical League's Visibility and Advocacy Task Force. He also maintains the Toda-lly Comprehensible Latin blog, a popular repository of instructional resources for teachers who are interested in comprehensible input.

This episode was recorded in June of 2023.

Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the ⁠⁠Classical Association of the Middle West and South⁠⁠.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by ⁠⁠Clive Romney⁠⁠

Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to [email protected]. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.