SPECIAL: Literary Sources for the Roman House

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Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

Johanna Hanink

37 episodes

1 week ago

Inger Kuin joins me in the Lesche to discuss her new book Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic (Basic Books 2025). Ancient sources Aristotle, Politics 1.3-7 (on 'natural' slavery)Diogenes Laertius, 2.6, Life of DiogenesPlutarch, Life of Alexander 14 (on the 'get out of my sun' episode)Xenophon, Anabasis 5-6 (on Sinope, Diogenes' birthplace)Other Diogenes testimonia from a variety of sourcesFor an accessible English-language collectio...

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SPECIAL: Literary Sources for the Roman House

Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

38 minutes

4 months ago

SPECIAL: Literary Sources for the Roman House

Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols joins me in the Lesche to discuss her new book How to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort, a curated collection of passages (by Cicero, Juvenal, Ovid, Pliny, Vitruvius, and others) that relate to the design, decor, and ideology of the ancient Roman house and home. The book is part of Princeton University Press's "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers" series. Preview the book's Table of Contents here. Read Yung In Chae's 2020 article (in the Princeton Alu...