Christopher Francese, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at Dickinson yesterday (“Active Latin in the Classroom: Strategies for Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Students” with Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg), has an excellent series of podcasts on Latin poetry, and I don’t know why I haven’t seen these until now.
Listening to Oedipus’ Self-Blinding, there was a sort of grotesque pleasure in reading the Latin as he gave his translation. But he also includes some notes on meter, and finally reads in Latin.
This is a marked improvement to Arms and the Man, which included just a Latin reading. Thankfully this was improved upon in Quintilian on Pauses in Aeneid 1.1-8, which is exactly what I’ve been looking for in a podcast from a classicist.
So we can add Franchese’s Latin Poetry Podcast to our feed readers alongside the always interesting Classics in Discussion from Warwick.
Here’s hoping that more follow these exempla virtutis.
Were you in the skit featuring Columbus and the sycophant? I was one of the sailors (wearing a yellow turtleneck, blue sweater, and red vest). It is somehow very strange to think that I’ve been reading this blog for a couple of years and happened to be at the very same seminar as one of the authors without realizing it! The wonders of the internet, I guess.
Will have to check out the podcasts – thanks for the tip.
I was the guy in Prof. Francese’s group with the shaved head who had the line “SCISNE NATARE?” Columbus and the Sycophant, by the way, were brilliant and must be loads of fun for their students. I’m glad to know that someone’s reading the blog!
Haha, okay. I agree – those two were quite creative!