All Episodes
Literature and History — 128 episodes
Episode 128: Early Sufism
Episode 127: Bashshar ibn Burd
Episode 126: Kalilah and Dimnah
Episode 125: The Zoroastrian Bundahisn
Episode 124: The Last Great War of Antiquity
Episode 123: An Introduction to the Hadiths
Episode 122: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Episode 121: The Umayyad Caliphate
Episode 120: The Rashidun Caliphate
Episode 119: The Qur'an, Part 3: Origins
Episode 118: The Qur'an, Part 2: Ordinances
Episode 117: The Qur'an, Part 1: Overview
Episode 116: The Life of Muhammad, Part 3: Conquest
Episode 115: The Life of Muhammad, Part 2: Community
Episode 114: The Life of Muhammad, Part 1: Cobwebs
Episode 113: Antarah ibn Shaddad
Episode 112: Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry
Episode 111: Pre-Islamic Arabia
Episode 110: Questions
Episode 109: Cornerstones
Episode 108: Isidore of Seville
Episode 107: Venantius Fortunatus
Episode 106: Gregory of Tours, Part 2
Episode 105: Gregory of Tours, Part 1
Episode 104: An Introduction to the Talmud
Episode 103: Boethius
Episode 102: An Old Man's Book (Augustine's City of God, Part 2 of 2)
Episode 101: Against the Pagans (Augustine's City of God, Part 1 of 2)
Episode 100: Late Have I Loved You (Augustine's Confessions, Books 9-13)
Episode 99: The Boy Who Stole Pears (Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-7)
Episode 98: The Life and Works of Saint Jerome
Episode 97: Blood and Ivy (Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Books 25-48)
Episode 96: The Last Pagan Epic (Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Books 1-24)
Episode 95: Rutilius Namatianus
Episode 94: Ausonius
Episode 93: Severus' Life of Saint Martin
Episode 92: Athanasius' Life of Antony
Episode 91: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
Episode 90: Ante-Nicene Catholicism
Episode 89: The Aethiopica of Heliodorus
Episode 88: Ancient Greek Sci-fi
Episode 87: Lucian of Samosata
Episode 86: An Introduction to Late Antiquity
Episode 85: River
Episode 84: Manichaeism
Episode 83: Gnosticism
Episode 82: Zoroastrianism
Episode 81: Revelation
Episode 80: The General Epistles
Episode 79: The Pauline Epistles
Episode 78: The Book of Acts
Episode 77: The Gospels
Episode 76: Judea Under Herod
Episode 75: Dusk and Starlight
Episode 74: Marcus Aurelius (The Meditations)
Episode 73: The Golden Ass (Apuleius' The Golden Ass)
Episode 72: Bread and Circuses (Juvenal's Satires)
Episode 71: The Gods Depart (Statius' Thebaid)
Episode 70: Rome's Forgotten Epic (Statius' Thebaid)
Episode 69: Rome's Comic Novel (Petronius' Satyricon)
Episode 68: Love Means Sin (Seneca's Phaedra)
Episode 67: Jaws Dripping Blood (Seneca's Thyestes)
Episode 66: Stoicism, Seneca, St. Paul
Episode 65: Seneca and the Julio-Claudians (The Life of Seneca)
Episode 64: Ovid's Exile (The Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto)
Episode 63: All Is in Flux (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 11-15)
Episode 62: A Curious Passion (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 6-10)
Episode 61: Changes of Shape (Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 1-5)
Episode 60: How to Make Love to a Roman (Ovid's Art of Love and Cure for Love)
Episode 59: Early Ovid (Amores, Heroides)
Episode 58: She Caught Me with Her Eyes (Propertius' Poetry)
Episode 57: The World Grows Dim and Black (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 10-12)
Episode 56: I Shall Release Hell (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 7-9)
Episode 55: Among the Shades (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 4-6)
Episode 54: Out of Troy (Virgil's Aeneid, Books 1-3)
Episode 53: Then Came Hard Iron (Virgil's Georgics)
Episode 52: White Flowers Die (Virgil's Eclogues)
Episode 51: Horace and Augustan Age Poetry
Episode 50: Our Brutal Age (Horace's Poetry)
Episode 49: The Strange Roots of Love (Catullus' Poetry)
Episode 48: The Right and the Expedient (Cicero's Career, 62-43 BCE)
Episode 47: O Tempora, O Mores (Cicero's Career, 80-62 BCE)
Episode 46: The Republic at Twilight (Cicero's Early Life)
Episode 45: The Uncuttables (Lucretius' On the Nature of Things and Epicureanism)
Episode 44: Homo Sum (Terence's The Brothers)
Episode 43: On the Move (Plautus' The Rope)
Episode 42: The Beginnings of Roman Literature
Episode 41: Everything So Far
Episode 40: Hellenism and the Rise of the Self
Episode 39: Medea and the Argonauts (Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts)
Episode 38: The Epic Anti-Hero (Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts)
Episode 37: The New Comedy (Menander's Old Cantankerous)
Episode 36: War and Peace and Sex (Aristophanes' Lysistrata)
Episode 35: The Great Thundercrap (Aristophanes' The Clouds)
Episode 34: The Traditions of Our Forefathers (Euripides' Bacchae)
Episode 33: Woman the Barbarian (Euripides' Medea)
Episode 32: Trees Bending to the Torrent (Sophocles' Antigone)
Episode 31: The Requiem at Athens (Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus)
Episode 30: Two Legs in the Afternoon (Sophocles' Oedipus the King)
Episode 29: The Mound and the Furies (Aeschylus' The Eumenides)
Episode 28: A Mother's Curse (Aeschylus' The Libation Bearers)
Episode 27: The Bloody King (Aeschylus' Agamemnon)
Episode 26: Ancient Greek Theater (The History of 5th-Century BCE Athenian Drama)
Episode 25: Lyrical Ballistics (Sappho, Pindar, Archilochus, and Greek Lyric Poetry)
Episode 24: God May Relent (The Bible's Prophetic Books)
Episode 23: Love. Desire. Exegesis. (The Song of Songs/Solomon)
Episode 22: Fatalism (The Book of Ecclesiastes)
Episode 21: The Bible's Magic Trick (The Book of Psalms)
Episode 20: The Problem of Evil (The Book of Job)
Episode 19: The One Who Struggles with God (The Historical Books and Biblical Archaeology)
Episode 18: The 613 Commandments (The Pentateuch's Prescriptive Materials)
Episode 17: Roots of the Pentateuch (The Pentateuch and Comparative Mythography)
Episode 16: Four Main Parts (Introduction to the Bible's Structure)
Episode 15: Canaan (Biblical History and Archaeology)
Episode 14: The Autumn Leaves (Homer's Odyssey, Books 17-24)
Episode 13: His Mind Teeming (Homer's Odyssey, Books 9-16)
Episode 12: Kleos and Nostos (Homer's Odyssey, Books 1-8)
Episode 11: Who Was Homer? (Homer's Iliad, Books 17-24)
Episode 10: Homer's Gods (Homer's Iliad, Books 9-16)
Episode 9: Glittering Bronze Men (Homer's Iliad, Books 1-8)
Episode 8: Before Orthodoxy (Hesiod's Theogony)
Episode 7: Hesiod's Lands and Seasons (Hesiod's Works and Days)
Episode 6: The Pros and Cons of Wisdom (Ancient Egypt's Wisdom Literature)
Episode 5: Beneath the Obelisks (Ancient Egyptian Fiction)
Episode 4: Divine Judgment (The Book of the Dead)
Episode 3: He Who Saw the Deep (The Epic of Gilgamesh)
Episode 2: Before the Flood (The Enuma Elish and Atrahasis)
Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)