Among the Ancients II: Pindar and Bacchylides

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‘Tam o’ Shanter’ first appeared as a lengthy footnote in Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland (1791) after Robert Burns convinced Grose to include the ruined Alloway Kirk in his volume, and its supernatural associations (invented by Burns). Its story of the drunken Tam's encou ...  Show more

This is the kind of conversation I dreamed about having when I began this podcast. Emily Wilson joins Close Readings to talk about Sappho's "Ode to Aphrodite," a poet and poem at the root of the lyric tradition in European poetry. You'll hear Emily read the poem in the Ancient Gr ...  Show more

For the final introduction to next year’s full Close Readings programme, Emily Wilson, celebrated classicist and translator of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, returns for a second season of Among the Ancients, to take on another twelve vital works of Greek and Roman literature with th ...  Show more

An episode I've been waiting for from the beginning: Andrew Epstein joins the podcast to talk about John Ashbery, one of the most important poets of the last hundred years, and his beautiful and haunting poem of mid-career, "Street Musicians."Andrew is Professor of English at Flo ...  Show more

Dans cette deuxième partie, écoutez la suite et la fin de l'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. C'est un roman-mémoires écrit par l'abbé Prévost, et publié en 1731. Nous vous en proposons le meilleur résumé possible mais nous vous invitons aussi, bien sûr, à lir ...  Show more