Episodes

May 31, 2024

Professor Deborah Beck and Professor Lesley Dean Jones look back on the Odysseuses we’ve encountered in...

May 29, 2024

Caroline Young is joined by Kristen Allen to discuss Philoctetes. We’ll examine the arguments presented by...

May 17, 2024

Zach Springer is joined by Caroline Young to discuss the analysis of tragedy in Aristotle’s Poetics...

May 10, 2024

Join Nicolas and Zach to examine the choral stasimon from Sophocles’ Philoctetes, lines 676-729.By exploring the...

May 3, 2024

Megan Hunter and co-host Nicolas Larimer discuss the difference in portrayals of Odysseus in Sophocles’ Ajax...

Apr 26, 2024

Kayla and Megan discuss the similarities and differences of Agamemnon and Teucer’s speeches in Sophocles’ Ajax...

Apr 19, 2024

Presented by Kristen Allen with co-host Kayla Hays, this episode explores the complicated relationship between Ajax...

Apr 19, 2024

Prof. Deborah Beck, the creator of “Musings in Greek Literature”, is joined by Prof. Sean Burd,...

Apr 19, 2024

This season, join us as we talk about the different ways that Odysseus is depicted in...

Jun 14, 2022

Along with Professor Beck, Bill and Becca return for a conversation about the last book of...

Jun 7, 2022

Liberty is joined by Cade, the host of Episode 3, to delve further into Medea’s feelings...

May 31, 2022

Join Ava and Liberty as they examine Medea’s inner struggle between her societal norms and her...

May 24, 2022

Focusing on Argonautica 3.471-488, Natalie and Ava explore relationships between the men (Jason and Argus), the...

May 17, 2022

In Argonautica 3.275-319, Dylan and Natalie discuss the moment when Eros causes Medea to fall in...

Apr 25, 2022

Looking at Argonautica 3.151-93, Cade and Dylan chat about what Jason is like as hero, in...

Apr 25, 2022

We’re joined by Dr. Rebecca van der Horst to talk about the different version of heroism...

Apr 25, 2022

Deborah Beck and Bill Farris kick off Season 3 with a conversation about how Book 1...

Mar 18, 2022

Professor Deborah Beck returns to wrap things up. Things end well for this podcast season and...

Mar 18, 2022

Antigone offers one last lament before going down to her tomb to die. It’s the last...

Mar 18, 2022

Nikhil and Payton get together again, this time to discuss aspects of the conversation between Haemon...

Mar 18, 2022

In Antigone 700-737, Lexie discusses Haemon’s attempts to dissuade his father, Kreon, from punishing Antigone for...

Mar 18, 2022

Katherine analyzes the development of the characters Ismene and Antigone in Antigone 531-58. Spoiler alert: “family”...

Mar 18, 2022

Mary discusses the significance of gender, family, language, and lament in Antigone 497-530....

Mar 18, 2022

Payton and Nikhil discuss Antigone 414-47, thinking about what isolation means to some of the main...

Mar 18, 2022

Albion looks at the return of the guard in Antigone 384-414, his new and confident attitude,...

Mar 18, 2022

Joseph talks about the second half of the Ode to Man, lines 354-383. He looks at...

Mar 18, 2022

Brendan begins a two-episode dive into the second choral song in the Antigone, the “Ode to...

Mar 18, 2022

Along with guest Evan Cleary, a business student, Lyle discusses the nature of Creon’s leadership in...

Mar 18, 2022

Laura breaks down Creon’s response to the news that the body of Polynices was buried (Antigone...

Mar 18, 2022

Focusing on Antigone 215-42, Cassandra Winkley and Rachel Prichett discuss the messenger trope in Greek tragedy....

Mar 18, 2022

Dylan McKibban discusses the second half of Creon’s first speech (verses 191-210). He finds that its...

Mar 18, 2022

Prof. Deborah Beck introduces season 2 with a discussion of the characters, language, and themes in...

Mar 18, 2022

A trailer for the Second season of Musings in Greek Literature, where they’ll be looking into...

Mar 17, 2022

Professor Deborah Beck provides some Homeric ring composition by looking back on the Iliad and the...

Mar 17, 2022

As the Iliad comes to an end, Lauryn draws on her knowledge of three-act structure to...

Mar 17, 2022

Trey Timson discusses the myth of Niobe and the use of the word sitos (“food”) Iliad...

Mar 17, 2022

Rachel Prichett discusses Achilles’ response to Priam’s request for the return of Hector’s body. For a...

Mar 17, 2022

In this episode, which focuses mainly on Iliad 24.477-86, Austin McDow talks about the simile used...

Mar 17, 2022

Claudia Cockerell discusses the opening of Book 23, focusing on the funeral rites of Patroclus and...

Mar 17, 2022

Sam Ross discusses the impartiality of the Iliadic narrator, specifically in reference to Andromakhe’s laments for...