In Carthage, in 203 CE, a Roman noblewoman and her retinue were butchered in an amphitheater. Learn her story, and the earliest history of Christian martyrs.
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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)
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