All Episodes

Seneca on character

Juvenal on the only nobility

Virgil on success

Cicero on translation

Horace on inherited guilt

Seneca on reason

Virgil on painful memories

The Distacha Catonis on conscience

Horace on the poets

Cicero on the wise

Seneca on leisure

Seneca on being truly free

Martial on a life well-lived

Cicero on living well

Virgil on your allotted time

Seneca on delay

Seneca on the way

Virgil on fated vengeance

Ausonius on winning

Statius on dignity and justice

Lucretius on how to live

Ovid drinks to oblivion

Martial says the rich get richer

Statius on the fatalism of epic warfare

Seneca on success

Gellius sets the stage

Aeneas makes landfall

Martial on the essence of wealth

Statius puts in a pin in self-help

Seneca's secret of contentment

Virgil on the universality of sorrow

Martial is not in a hurry to die famous

Ovid says love is a battlefield

Ausonius on passion ungoverned

Seneca's theatre for two

Ovid on daring to love

Seneca walks the walk

Statius on the trauma of war

Juvenal satirises insatiable ambition

Martial laments Vesuvius

Hermes Trismegistus inquiries into the esoteric

Hecato goes full stoic

Ausonius on the Spartan ethos

Augustine condemns the slave traders

Caesar dominates

Obsoquens records an ancient UFO sighting

Themistius on the eternal

Livy on battlefield rites

Cicero on courage

Seneca gets cheerful

Petronius on parvenus

Lucretius on creation

Ausonius on oratory

Seneca self deprecates

Martial on the artist

Cato on buying a house

Valerius on problem solving

Martial takes a tipple

Sallust on power

Seneca on wrath

Cassian on the dangers of idleness

Seneca has stopped having fun

Sidonius shows gratitude

Sophocles shows the fear of someone who has lost their mind

Martial and the gentle lion

Horace on indiscriminate fate

Statius invokes the muse to continue being epic

Valerius on the goddesses departure

Vopiscus on the soldier emperor’s youth

Martial boasts of Rome's grandeur

Vitruvius recounts a shipwreck

Thebaid - Book VII

Tibullus on love's wishes granted

Suetonius on Nero

Tacitus on the Germans

Terence - on love

Sophocles shows the fear of one who has lost their mind

Petronius on the high life

Virgil - Aeneid II

Seneca on life and death

Persius on vanity

Boethius on glory

Apuleius - Apologia

Ovid - Orpheus’ plea

Seneca - dealing with anger

Statius - Thebaid VI

Statius - Thebaid V

Manilius - On fate

Obsopoeus - on booze

Ovid - Heroides

Seneca - A good man

Lucan - On Cato

Pliny - On Scipio

Statius - Thebaid IV

Statius - Thebaid III

Martial - Epigrams II.XXII

John Cassian - Conférences

Seneca - on busyness

Martial epigrams II.XIII

Statius - Thebaid II