When Apuleius married his friend’s mother, little did he realise that it would lead to a charge of sorcery, with a raft of seemingly innocent actions from buying a mirror to writing bad poetry bought up in front of the courts to prove his wicked intentions.
Unfortunately for his accusers, Apuleius was a skilled orator, educated in the art of philosophy and highly skilled at slandering his enemies.
Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University)
Episode CCXXIX - Indomitable Spirit (The Catiline Conspiracy V)
Episode CCXXIII - The Championship of the Oppressed (The Catiline Conspiracy IV)
Episode CCXXII - A Stolen Election (The Catiline Conspiracy III)
Episode CCXXI - An Entire Farrago (The Catiline Conspiracy II)
Episode CCXX - A Disordered Mind (The Catiline Conspiracy I)
Episode CCXIX - Hispala Faecena and the Bacchanalia Conspiracy
Episode CCXVIII - Martial on the Emperors
Episode CCXVII - Angeronalia
Episode CCXVI - A Roman Haunting in Three Parts
Episode CCXV - The Unconquered Sun
Episode CCXIV - Aurelian, Restorer of the Age
Episode CCXIII - Zenobia
Episode CCXII - Aurelian, the Restorer of the World
Episode CCXI - Claudius Gothicus
Episode CCX - A Lesson in Latin III
Episode CCIX - A Diminished Rome
Episode CCVIII - Odaenathus, King of Kings
Episode CCVII - The Gallic Empire
Episode CCVI - Rome Crumbles
Episode CCV - Cleopatra Selene
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