Latin Poetry Podcast

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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Update frequency: every 22 days
Average duration: 18 minutes
Episodes: 71
Years Active: 2006 - 2020

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

Juno has just finished her opening monologue in which she whips herself into a frenzy of rage at Her…

00:31:19 | Wed 05 Aug 2020

Seneca Hecules Furens 1-29

“Hercules Furens,” adapted, directed, and choreographed by John Farmanesh-Bocca. The Miles Memo…

00:14:40 | Sun 02 Aug 2020

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

Despite my royal status and lineage, I am begging you. Spare me, please. May you get everything you want as…

00:16:33 | Wed 15 Jul 2020

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

Phaedra asks Hippolytus to put off his huntsman’s persona and relax, then offers to come out on the hunt wi…

00:23:56 | Wed 08 Jul 2020

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

Phaedra wants to take up hunting like Hippolytus and is driven to the extremes of mental derangement. Perha…

00:26:27 | Mon 06 Jul 2020

Phaedra to Hippolytus (Ovid, Heroides 4.1-36)

Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Racine’s Phèdre (Getty Museum)

Quā, nisi tū dederis, caritūra est ipsa, salū…

00:23:48 | Thu 02 Jul 2020

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

There are still a couple of days left to sign up to join me and Chun Liu of Peking University for an online…

00:24:00 | Sat 27 Jun 2020

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

Join me and Chun Liu of Peking University for an online workshop reading Ovid’s Heroides, July 15-20, 2020:…

00:32:41 | Sat 20 Jun 2020

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

Woodcut from the Italian translation of the Heroides published by Sixtus Riessinger (Naples, 1474)

Hospita,…

00:33:58 | Sun 14 Jun 2020

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

This is the third and last episode on Heroides 1. If you love Ovid’s Heroides, consider joining Chun Liu (P…

00:19:06 | Wed 03 Jun 2020

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

If you love Ovid’s Heroides, consider joining Chun Liu (Professor of Comparative Literature at Peking University) and me at the Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop (online this year), July 15-20, 2020. h…

00:15:07 | Tue 26 May 2020

Penelope to Odysseus part 1 (Ovid, Heroides 1.1-36)

Here begins what I plan to be a series on Ovid’s Heroides, in preparation for an open online seminar on the Heroides with Chun Liu of Peking University, July 16-20, 2020. We will read and discuss sev…

00:14:25 | Sat 23 May 2020

Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy 1.P4

Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius rose to high honors under Theodoric the Ostrogoth (ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493–526), but fell from favor, was tried for treason…

00:17:46 | Thu 30 Apr 2020

Hecuba Tiger Queen

Ovid on the Metamorphoses compares Hecuba to a lioness, not a tigress, but as I discuss based on Pliny and Valerius Flaccus, the two animals were grouped together in the Roman mind under the heading …

00:11:52 | Wed 01 Apr 2020

Catullus and Martial on Unguents

Catullus 13 (text: G.P. Goold, 1983, via PHI)
Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me
paucis, si tibi di favent, diebus,
si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam
cenam, non sine candida puella
et vino et sal…

00:17:22 | Mon 02 Dec 2019

Seneca, Medea 895-910

WordPress powers over a third of the web and more than 38% of the top 10K websites. What began as a blogging platform is now the most widely-used content management system in the world, and a wise ch…

00:16:21 | Sun 24 Nov 2019

J.K. Rowling and Peter Needham: Distribuens Petasus

J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997) has a delightful Latin version, Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (2003), by Peter Needham. Needham taught Classics at Eton for over th…

00:10:29 | Sun 17 Nov 2019

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

Ysengrimus is a Latin mock epic, an anthropomorphic series of fables written in 1148 or 1149 in Latin elegiac couplets. Its chief character is Isengrin the Wolf; the plot describes how the trickster …

00:10:52 | Mon 11 Nov 2019

Claudian on Mules (De Mulabus Gallicis)

Claudian (ca. 370-ca.404 AD) is best known for his political poetry (he was associated with the court of the Roman emperor Honorius at Milan). But his miscellaneous carmina minora include a fascinati…

00:16:21 | Mon 04 Nov 2019

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

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