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Podcast: Book VI - Television

We dip into the ancient world as depicted in live action and animated television series. Are historical and mythological stories better serviced by this genre or does longer form narrative come with its own drawbacks?

Episode 46 – The Sandman (2022), with Kira Jones

Joined by a very special guest and the Rock’s personal Latin teacher, Dr. Kira Jones (@FlavianSophist), we enter the dreaming of Netflix’s

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Episode 41 – Atlantis (2013), with Liv Albert

Or as we like to call it “It Should Have Been Set on Crete.” Join us with special guest from Let’s Talk

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Episode 26 – Blood of Zeus (2020) Part II, with Christie Vogler & Zoé Thomas

Gigantomachy II: Electric Boogaloo! Our longest episode to date, we really don’t lack for things to talk about. There’s a a lot

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Episode 25 – Blood of Zeus (2020) Part I, with Christie Vogler & Zoé Thomas

“Screw your winged horse, I want a Manticore!” We break down the first four episodes of Netflix’s original anime series with repeat

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Episode 24 – Troy: Fall of a City (2018), Part III, with Ava-Elana Tolley-Enstrom

“A man who thinks that he has been done wrong is a mad, mad man.” (the Iliad, abridged). Get these and other

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Episode 23 – Troy: Fall of a City (2018), Part II, with Lucile Chambon, Jordan Engstrom and Mitchell Jackson

Joined by three fantastic first year students from UT Austin, we continue our discussion of Netflix’s miniseries as we get into episodes

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Episode 22 – Troy: Fall of a City (2018), Part I, with Adam Rabinowitz

We launch the first of a special, three part miniseries on the Netflix/BBC original on the Trojan War. Joining us is UT

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  • Extremely Strained and Incredibly Forced: The Wire (2002-2008) and the Iliad (700’s BCE), with Adam Rabinowitz
  • Extremely Strained and Incredibly Forced: The Walking Dead (2010-2022) and The Aeneid (19 BCE), with Maxwell T Paule
  • Episode 48 – The Eternals (2021), with David S Anderson
  • Episode 47 – Thor: Love & Thunder (2022), with Jason Nethercut
  • Extremely Strained and Incredibly Forced: Moana (2016) and the Aeneid (19 BCE), with Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

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