All Episodes

Amycus Brief: The Argonautica of Apollonius, Part IV (Ad Navseam, Episode 225)

Fleece is the Word: The Argonautica of Apollonius, Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 224)

Strangely Familiar: When is a word? Who is a dictionary? (Ad Navseam, Gurgle 10)

Hypsipyle Don't Lie: The Argonautica of Apollonius, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 223)

A Sandal in the Wind: The Argonautica of Apollonius, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 222)

Mass Crucifixion of the House of Lucius Pedanius Secundus (Ad Navseam, Gurgle 9)

Homer's Odyssey Three Ways: Recent Translations by Anthony Verity, Emily Wilson, and Peter Green (Gurgle 8)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XXII (Ad Navseam, Episode 221)

Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight: Miles Gloriosus, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 220)

The Plautus Thickens: Miles Gloriosus, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 219)

Living with OCD: The Oxford Classical Dictionary for the Autodidact (Ad Navseam, Episode 218)

A Light in the Attic: Lysias' Speech Against Eratosthenes (Ad Navseam, Episode 217)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XXI (Ad Navseam, Episode 216)

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: A Conversation with Translator Aaron Poochigian (Ad Navseam, Episode 215)

Man-into-Beast Changes in Ovid, G.B. Riddehough (Gurgle 7)

Catullus Nose Poetry: Three Neoteric Gems (Ad Navseam, Episode 214)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XX (Ad Navseam, Episode 213)

Democracy and the Arts, in America? A Conversation on Tocqueville with Bob Stacey (Ad Navseam, Episode 212)

Carl P. E. Springer's "The Latin Poetry of Martin Luther" (Ad Navseam, Episode 211)

Cloudy with a Chance of Socrates: Aristophanes' Clouds, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 210)

Polyphemus Last Words: Live at Michigan Junior Classical League (Ad Navseam, Episode 209)

You Can't Be Cirrus: Aristophanes' Clouds, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 208)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XIX (Ad Navseam, Episode 207)

Forgers and Critics: Anthony Grafton and the History of Faking It (Ad Navseam, Episode 206)

Vergil's Messianic Fourth Eclogue (Ad Navseam, Episode 205)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XVIII (Ad Navseam, Episode 204)

Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke: A Fresh Assault on the Synoptic Problem, Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 203)

Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke: A Fresh Assault on the Synoptic Problem, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 202)

Your Native Tongue Holds a Special Place in Your Brain (Gurgle 6)

Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke: A Fresh Assault on the Synoptic Problem, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 201)

Gag Reflex: Our Second, More Abysmaler, Clip Show (Ad Navseam, Episode 200)

Eye Can't Get No Satisfaction: Polyphemus and Galatea in Theocritus' Idyll XI (Ad Navseam, Episode 199)

The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part IX (Ad Navseam, Episode 198)

Did St. Paul Speak Latin? and, The Forms You Really Need to Know: Souter and Mahoney (Ad Navseam, Episode 197)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XVII (Ad Navseam, Episode 196)

Ma, ma, ma, my, Pomona! (Et Alii) in Two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 195)

The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part VIII (Ad Navseam, Episode 194)

Mythbusting Asbestos We Can: Fire at the Library of Alexandria? (Ad Navseam, Episode 193)

Brother, Can You Spare a Daimon? Plato’s Apology, Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 192)

A Daimon in the Rough: Plato’s Apology, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 191)

Daimons are Forever: Plato’s Apology, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 190)

How the Greeks Built Cities, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 189)

How the Greeks Built Cities, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 188)

What's the Best Textbook for Learning Ancient Greek? - Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 187)

The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part VII (Ad Navseam, Episode 186)

What's the Best Textbook for Learning Ancient Greek? - Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 185)

What's the Best Textbook for Learning Ancient Greek? - Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 184)

The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part VI (Ad Navseam, Episode 183)

Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 182)

Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 181)

Ave atque Vale: Catullus' Goodbye to his Brother, Poem 101 (Ad Navseam, Episode 180)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XVI (Ad Navseam, Episode 179)

Writing Imperial History: Tacitus from Agricola to Annales with Bram ten Berge (Ad Navseam, Episode 178)

"Women of Trachis": Sophocles' Forgotten Play, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 177)

"Women of Trachis": Sophocles' Forgotten Play, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 176)

The Milkman Goeth: Lactantius, Christian Cicero Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 175)

The Milkman Cometh: Lactantius, Christian Cicero Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 174)

The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part V (Ad Navseam, Episode 173)

Tomb it May Concern: Manolis Andronikos and Philip II at Vergina (Ad Navseam, Episode 172)

The Hunger Games' Swansong: Erisychthon and Cycnus in Two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 171)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XV (Ad Navseam, Episode 170)

The New Old Way of Learning Languages: James Hamilton and his Interlinears (Ad Navseam, Episode 169)

Having Second Thoughts: Secondary Literature in the Study of the Classics, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 168)

Seconds Count: Secondary Literature in the Study of the Classics, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 167)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XIV (Ad Navseam, Episode 166)

Libris Helluari, Buried in Books Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 165)

The Bear Switch Project: Two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 164)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XIII (Ad Navseam, Episode 163)

The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part IV (Ad Navseam, Episode 162)

Let's Get this Potty Started: A Conversation on Aristophanes with Translator Diane Arnson Svarlien (Ad Navseam, Episode 161)

The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 160)

Civil Serpents: The Myths of Asclepius and the Healing Sanctuary at Epidauros (Ad Navseam, Episode 159)

Becoming Nobody: A Conversation with Homeric Bluesman Joe Goodkin (Ad Navseam, Episode 158)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XII (Ad Navseam, Episode 157)

Barbarisms at the Gates: Some Perils in Active Latin Pedagogy, with Patrick Owens (Ad Navseam, Episode 156)

The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 155)

The Golden Age of the Classics in America by Carl Richard, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 154)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XI (Ad Navseam, Episode 153)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part X (Ad Navseam, Episode 152)

Hiss and Tell!: Lucian of Samosata's Alexander the False Prophet, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 151)

Hissterical!: Lucian of Samosata's Alexander the False Prophet, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 150)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part IX (Ad Navseam, Episode 149)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part VIII (Ad Navseam, Episode 148)

We Know What you Did Last, Summers: A Conversation with Kirk Summers about Theodore Beza as Poet (Ad Navseam, Episode 147)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part VII (Ad Navseam, Episode 146)

Make it Come Alive: A Conversation with Veteran Translator Stanley Lombardo (Ad Navseam, Episode 145)

Oh boy oh boy: A Conversation with Gary "Hercules" Schmidt (Ad Navseam, Episode 144)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part VI (Ad Navseam, Episode 143)

Anna Maria van Schurman and Women's Education, with Anne Larsen and Steve Maiullo of Hope College (Ad Navseam, Episode 142)

Gullible's Travels? An Introduction to Herodotus with Dr. Ken Bratt (Ad Navseam, Episode 141)

In the Beginning was Sermo: Reopening the Conversation on John 1:1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 140)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part V (Ad Navseam, Episode 139)

The Roman Mysteries: A Conversation with Bestselling Children’s Author Caroline Lawrence (Ad Navseam, Episode 138)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part IV (Ad Navseam, Episode 137)

Legend-tripping at Bunnyman Bridge: American Urban Legends and Classical Mythological Tropes (Ad Navseam, Episode 136)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 135)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 134)

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 133)

Io Wanna be a Cowboy: Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 132)

Hey, I’ma be Liver Now: Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 131)

We Didn’t Steal the Fire: Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 130)

Giving Goliath his Due: Mycenaeans and Philistines, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 129)

Giving Goliath his Due: Mycenaeans and Philistines, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 128)

Do the Rite Thing: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 127)

No Pain, No Grain: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 126)

Whoa, Milo, Come on, Come On, Let’s Go: The Greatest Ancient Athlete (Ad Navseam, Episode 125)

Use Your Allusion II: Classics in Pop Music (Ad Navseam, Episode 124)

Gildy as Charged: Arachne and Midas in two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 123)

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: A Conversation with Margolit Fox (Ad Navseam, Episode 122)

Loading the Canons: The Art of Classical Rhetoric (Ad Navseam, Episode 121)

Here Comes the Rage Again: Aeneid XII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 120)

Duel Unto Others: Aeneid XII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 119)

Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature II (Ad Navseam, Episode 118)

Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature I (Ad Navseam, Episode 117)

A Thrilla with Camilla: Aeneid XI, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 116)

With Pallas toward None: Aeneid XI, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 115)

Male Pattern Baldric: Aeneid X, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 114)

All’s Hair in Love and War! Aeneid X, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 113)

Translating Samuel Rutherford’s Examen Arminianismi (Ad Navseam, Episode 112)

Turnus Loose: War in Aeneid IX, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 111)

A Night to Dismember: The Tragedy of Nisus and Euryalus in Aeneid IX, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 110)

Signed, Shield, Delivered: Aeneas becomes Achilles in Aeneid Book VIII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 109)

Et in Arcadia Ego? Evander and Cacus in Vergil’s Aeneid Book VIII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 108)

The Census of Quirinius in the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 107)

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Faces: Janus and Camilla in Aeneid Book VII, Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 106)

The Fury’s Still Out on this One: Allecto in Aeneid Book VII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 105)

William Morrell and Epic Poetry in Colonial New England (Ad Navseam, Episode 104)

Eye of the Tiber: Aeneid Book VII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 103)

Dis is where it Ends: Aeneid Book VI, Part 4 (Ad Navseam, Episode 102)

If Dis is It, Please Let me Know: Aeneid Book VI, Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 101)

Gouda Nuff for Now: The Cheesy Clip Show (Ad Navseam, Episode 100)

The Palladium (Gurgle 5)

Memorizing Latin: The Why and Some What, Part 2 (Gurgle 4)

Dis is the Place: Aeneid Book VI, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 99)

Use Your Allusion I: Classics in Pop Music (Ad Navseam, Episode 98)

Bough Wow: Vergil’s Aeneid Book VI, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 97)

Royal Boxing Day: Vergil’s Aeneid Book V, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 96)

Regatta Love It: Vergil’s Aeneid Book V, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 95)

The Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man (Ad Navseam, Episode 94)

Come on Baby Light My Pyre: Vergil’s Aeneid Book IV, Part 4 (Ad Navseam, Episode 93)

It’s Not You, It’s Me: Aeneid Book IV Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 92)

Bride and Gloom: Aeneid Book IV, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 91)

To Live and Let Dido: Aeneid Book IV, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 90)

Dirges for Dead Dido: St. Augustine and Vergil (Ad Navseam, Episode 89)

Memorizing Latin: The Why and Some What, Part 1 (Gurgle 3)

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Troy, Troy, Again: Aeneid Book III, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 88)

Crouching Helen, Hidden Destiny: Vergil’s Aeneid Books II and III (Ad Navseam, Episode 87)

Oh for Goodness Snakes! Vergil’s Aeneid Book 2, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 86)

Never Look a Grift Horse in the Mouth: Vergil’s Aeneid Book II, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 85)

Mist Opportunities: Aeneid Book I, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 84)

Girl Juno it’s True: Aeneid I and the Causes of Juno’s Wrath (Ad Navseam, Episode 83)

The Alexamenos Graffito and Roman Persecution of Christians (Gurgle 2)

A Refugee from Fate: Vergil’s Aeneid 1.1-7 (Gurgle 1)

Whaddya Noah?: Deucalion, Pyrrha, and the Flood in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ad Navseam, Episode 82)

No Meat, Please, We’re Pythagoreans!: Pythagoras in Book 15 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ad Navseam, Episode 81)

What’s a Motto You, Two? University and College Mottoes (Ad Navseam, Episode 80)

Ides, Ides, Baby!: Caesar’s Assassination in the Roman Historians (Ad Navseam, Episode 79)

Clever Jokes for Clever Folks: Robert Mac and Aristotle’s Lost Treatise on Comedy (Ad Navseam, Episode 78)

Dr. Amphibolus, I Presume?: Erasmus as Translator of the Classics (Ad Navseam, Episode 77)

A Visit to the Roman Catacombs (Ad Navseam, Episode 76)

’Beware of Falling Turtles!’ and other Strange Tales: Death Stories of famous Greeks and Romans” (Ad Navseam, Episode 75)

Cad to the Bone: Alcibiades and Asebeia in 415 BC (Ad Navseam, Episode 74)

But you Cotta Have Faith, Faith, Faith: Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 73)

Keep Your Eye on the Balbus: Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 72)

Stoics Finally Come to This: Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 71)

They’ve Lost their Marbles!: Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures (Ad Navseam, Episode 70)

Licensed to Ille: Children’s Books in Latin (Ad Navseam, Episode 69)

Married with Classicists (Ad Navseam, Episode 68)

Rock Those Socks!: Stocking Stuffers for the Classically Oriented (Ad Navseam, Episode 67)

Growing Up Classical: A Conversation with Jillian Noe (Ad Navseam, Episode 66)

I Want My Mummy!: the Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great (Ad Navseam, Episode 65)

How to be a Latin Guru, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 64)

How to be a Latin Guru, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 63)

There’s No Place Like Dome: Neoclassicism and the Architecture of Washington D.C. (Ad Navseam, Episode 62)

Sedimental Journeys: Two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 61)

“Just Ghosts To Show Ya” - Halloween Special (Ad Navseam, Episode 60)

“That’s the Power of Love: Two Ovidian Vignettes” (Ad Navseam, Episode 59)

The Jung and the Restless: Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey (Ad Navseam, Episode 58)

The Abiding Value of the Liberal Arts - A Conversation with Heather Mac Donald (Ad Navseam, Episode 57)

Pay no Attention to the Girl behind the Curtain - The Delphic Oracle (Ad Navseam, Episode 56)

Whatsa Motto with You?! - Latin Mottoes of the US States (Ad Navseam, Episode 55)

“Up and Atoms!”: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Part IV (Ad Navseam, Episode 54)

Shebang, the Whole: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 53)

The Heart of Hidden Things: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 52)

The Whole Enchilada: Epicureanism and Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (Ad Navseam, Episode 51)

“Brekekekex! Koax! Koax!”: Ancient Greek Comedy and Aristophanes’ Frogs (Ad Navseam, Episode 50)

What’s the Best Latin Textbook? - A Discussion with Hillsdale’s Dr. Patrick M. Owens, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 49)

What's the Best Latin Textbook? - A Discussion with Hillsdale's Dr. Patrick M. Owens, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 48)

How Many Ships Can Your Face Launch?: Gorgias' "Encomium of Helen" and the Delayed Punchline" (Ad Navseam, Episode 47)

“From there we travelled to Philippi”—Talking Archaeology with Dr. Ken Bratt (Ad Navseam, Episode 46)

A Conversation with Ross King (Ad Navseam, Episode 45)

Fathers' Foundings: Classics and the American Revolution (Ad Navseam, Episode 44)

Ten Things We Hated about Grad School (Ad Navseam, Episode 43)

Paul, Barnabas, Baucis, and Philemon in Lystra — Acts 14 and Ovid (Ad Navseam, Episode 42)

"We Bulled This City”—the Mysteries of Mithras (Ad Navseam, Episode 41)

How to Tell a Joke—a conversation with Michael Fontaine (Ad Navseam Episode 40)

U Can’t Dutch This - Daniel Heinsius and the Dutch Renaissance (Ad Navseam Episode 39)

A Literary Archaeology—Sallust and the Invention of the Monograph (Ad Navseam Episode 38)

Olive's Well that Ends Well: Homer's Odyssey, part 11 (Books 23-24), Ad Navseam Episode 37

Come for the Wine, Stay for the Retributive Justice—Homer’s Odyssey, Part 10 (bks 20-22); Episode 36

Antipasto! Top 9 Reasons to Study Greek and Latin - Episode 35

“Take a Gander at this Dream I Had…” Homer’s Odyssey, Part 9 (Books 18-19) - Episode 34

Ad Navseam Episode 33: “Reunited and it Feels so Good”--Homer’s Odyssey, Part 9 (Books 15-17)

Ad Navseam Episode 32: Swined and Dined—Homer’s Odyssey, part 8 (Books 12-14)

Ad Navseam Episode 31: Mortal Republic, How Rome Fell into Tyranny - a Conversation with Dr. Ed Watts of UC San Diego

Ad Navseam Episode 30: More Pain in the Nekuia—Odysseus in the Underworld, Part 2 (Homer’s Odyssey, part 7)

Ad Navseam Episode 29: A Pain in the Nekuia—Odysseus in the Underworld, Part 1 (Book 11)

Ad Navseam Episode 28: The Well-Trained Mind: A Conversation with Susan Wise Bauer

Ad Navseam Episode 27: “HOLY MOLY!” — Homer’s Odyssey, part 5 (Book 10)

Ad Navseam Episode 26: “It’s all Fun and Games Till Someone Pokes an Eye Out” - Homer’s Odyssey, Part 4 (Book 9)

Ad Navseam Episode 25: Schmidt-en with the Classics

Ad Navseam Episode 24: "A Toast to the Host who can Boast the Most Roast” — Homer’s Odyssey, Part 3 (Books 5-8)

Ad Navseam Episode 23: Down on the Pharmaka—Homer’s Odyssey, Part 2

Ad Navseam Episode 22: When will Dad be Home? - Homer's Odyssey, Part 1

Ad Navseam Episode 21: Cowboy Up, Verg! Eclogue One and the Origins of Augustan Literature

Ad Navseam Episode 20: A Lion at the Gates - The Battle of Thermopylae, Part 2

Ad Navseam Episode 19: A Lion at the Gates - The Battle of Thermopylae, Part 1

Ad Navseam Episode 18: Cranks for the Memories – William Perkins, Alexander Dicson, and the Ars Memoriae

Ad Navseam Episode 17: “Honey, I’m Home!”—Alcestis, Part 2

Ad Navseam Episode 16: “Euripides? Eubuyides!”—Alcestis, Part 1

Ad Navseam Episode 15: I Can't Spare a Square! - Horror Vacui and the Dipylon Vase

Ad Navseam Episode 14: Cicero Falls at Formiae - A Date which will Live in Infamy

Ad Navseam Episode 13: Buried in Books - Cicero and Cato in a Tusculan Villa

Ad Navseam Episode 12: Theogony and the Ecstasy - The Archaic Greek Poet Hesiod, Part 2

Ad Navseam Episode 11: Workin' for a Livin' - The Archaic Greek Poet Hesiod, Part 1

Ad Navseam Episode 10: Necropolis Now! The Martyrdom and Tomb of St. Peter

Ad Navseam Episode 9: A Fisherman, a Farmer, and a Shepherd Walk into a Painting… - Ovid and Brueghel’s Fall of Icarus

Ad Navseam Episode 8: Avid for Ovid, or What's Love Got to Do with It?

Ad Navseam Episode 7: Troy, the Movie - More Bods than Gods

Ad Navseam Episode 6: SCHLIEMANN!

Ad Navseam Episode 5: History and the Trojan War

Ad Navseam Episode 4: Homer's Iliad, Part 3

Ad Navseam Episode 3: Homer's Iliad, Part 2

Ad Navseam Episode 2: Homer's Iliad, Part 1

Ad Navseam Episode 1: Classics as a Way of Life