Thomas & Katrina are joined by Nicholas Dames, Chair of Literature Humanities, to discuss the Gospels of Luke & John through the lens of literary study.

Thomas, Katrina and Larry are joined by Geoff to discuss their favorite bits of an Aeneid: its strange ambiguity vis-a-vis its own political project, Aeneas as a less than ideal hero, a paranoid stance regarding excessive affect and some very choice Latin terms.

Larry takes Thomas & Katrina on a journey through Plato's Symposium, a literary and philosophical work presenting a series of speeches on the nature of love, reading the Symposium through lens of Socrates' execution in 399BCe as the originary trauma of philosophy.

Thomas, Larry and Katrina discuss the story of Agamemnon's bloody return home: his death in the bathtub at the hands of his wife, Clytaemestra; his wife's death at the hands of HER OWN SON ORESTES; and the eventual establishment of a court after Orestes is hounded by vengeful spirits with eyes oozing slime and blood. Turn up, tune in, get grossed out.

Thomas, Larry and Katrina are joined by Rosalie Stoner (Classics) to discuss Homer's The Odyssey, the Emily Wilson translation. This text tells the story of Odysseus' journey home and the reclamation of his household, and its twists and turns through many strange places in the Homeric universe.

Thomas Preston is joined by Katrina Dzyak and Larry Jackson to discuss the Iliad