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 CXLV - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Episode CXLIV - Ulpian
Episode CXLIII - Damnatio Memoriae
Episode CXLII - Deification
Podcast Announcement - Raising Standards
Episode CXLI - Translating Suetonius
Episode CXL - A Ridiculous Waste of Time (Severus Alexander IV)
Episode CXXXIX - A Fish in a Net (Severus Alexander III)
Episode CXXXVIII - Rise of the Sasanian Empire (Severus Alexander II)
Episode CXXXVII - Mother Knows Best (Severus Alexander I)
Episode CXXXVI - Spartacus (1960)
Episode CXXXV - Lupercalia
Episode CXXXIV - Roman Health and Medicine
Episode CXXXIII - Anthology of Interest II
Episode CXXXII - Q and A V
Episode CXXXI - Champions of the People (Gracchi IV)
Episode CXXX - Unpopular Reforms (Gracchi III)
Episode CXXIX - Tiberius Gracchus and the Landless Masses (Gracchi II)
Episode CXXVIII - Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (Gracchi I)
Episode CXXVII - Augustus: The Making of an Emperor (Live in Melbourne)
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