14:43

Sights and sounds of the Sicilian Expedition

04:25

Etymology 5 drink!

04:56

Etymology 4 seasons and weather

03:42

Etymology 3 domus

02:59

Etymology 2 villas

05:21

Building words from Latin - comings and goings

05:02

A possession for ever - why Classics matters

07:11

Iliad and Odyssey: beginnings and endings

07:55

Penelope - a woman in charge

06:42

Eumaeus - the real hero of the Odyssey

12:07

Odysseus and the Cyclops

08:30

Homer: a poet for all times, all wars

08:47

Death of Patroklos: heroic or unfair? Gods and Homer ...

08:34

Homer Iliad 1 and 6. A genius at work.

07:24

100th video - Constantine and the Council of Nicaea

08:34

Decius and Valerian - persecutions have the opposite effect from the one intended

08:33

Lyons persecution 177 A D A lesson for us all

07:58

What did early Christians do and think?

08:30

Saint Clement - asserting the church in Rome's authority

09:30

Preaching, problems, prison. Paul persists.

09:03

Earliest days of the Christian Church

07:44

Cybele. Blood. Castration. Aristocracy. The Great Mother.

06:06

Worshipping Isis in Alexandria - a rowdy and disorderly business

08:59

Saturnalia - where "Christmas" came from

07:43

Lupercalia - a laughing matter?

06:01

Eleusinian Mysteries - reaching for the Beyondness of Things

09:20

How to create a sense of national identity - The Great Panathenaia

05:38

Athens Great Dionysia - a festival worth travelling through time for

05:31

Ausonius - messing about on the Mosel. Later Latin poetry.

06:50

Paul Theroux on the Odyssey - looking forward to a rosy fingered dawn

06:11

Odysseus and the Sirens - facing temptation

06:32

Odysseus builds a boat - leadership skills demonstrated

10:30

Travel by sea - big boats for big journeys

09:55

Roman travel with Horace - bad roads, bad wine, but got to Brindisi in the end

07:40

Mamertine Prison - grim and gloomy and the last place on earth to meet Peter and Paul

07:40

Basilica San Clemente - walking back through time

07:49

Vestal Virgins - privilege and repression

11:00

Catacombs - S. Sebastiano and S. Callisto

06:50

Pantheon - not quite what it seems, but utterly magnificent!

10:02

Colosseum - emblem of Rome, but is it a good emblem?

06:05

Epidauros, a beautiful theatre

09:00

Erechtheion - solving problems elegantly

04:16

Small but perfectly formed: Athene Nike temple

09:23

Parthenon: power, propaganda and Persians

07:15

Classical Radical Pentecost

06:17

Cicero on tyranny: posing awkward questions under tyrants.

04:56

Cicero on politics and panthers

09:43

Vesuvius, panicky fake news, interesting psychological observation

11:07

Pliny Vesuvius: fake news - never been an eruption. I blame China.

08:04

Christians, denunciations, Trajan and the Edict of Toleration

07:43

Pliny in Nicomedia: lessons for big construction projects - HS2 anyone? Crossrail?

07:21

Leisure, lounging around and literature. Pliny's advice for lockdown...

04:45

Brutality at midday: Seneca on the meridiani.

03:24

Letters - Seneca

06:12

Vindolanda - everyday objects: leather mouse, lonely letters - revealing the other side of life

06:44

Vindolanda - letters, dead dog, decapitation.

07:28

Great Big Border Wall: what became of it?

06:32

Great Big Border Wall 2: financial problems, design problems and purpose problems

07:25

A Great Big Border Wall

08:52

Bar Kochba and the destruction of Judaea