About Forum Romanum, the NJCL Latin League, and strategies for teaching Roman history to beginning Latin students.
Clint Hagen has been teaching Latin in the state of Texas for the past three decades. Having previously taught in the cities of Amarillo and Austin, he currently teaches at Fort Worth Country Day. He is the creator of Ecce Ambulatores!, an introductory-level Latin textbook, and The Toga and the Sword, a Roman history textbook for beginning Latin students. This past school year, Clint served as the inaugural commissioner of the NJCL Latin League, a year-long online trivia competition for middle school and high school Latin students.
Forum Romanum Episode 18 Video
Forum Romanum Episode 18 Script
Requiescant in pace: Marcus Favonius (John Donohue) and Iulia Pauli (Amy High).
CORRECTION: There were 24 episodes of this program.
Recorded in June of 2025.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
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About what classicists think, the hypocrisy of English-only "decolonization," and how a nineteenth-century debate can offer strategies for saving the humanities today.
Eric Adler is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Maryland. He received a B.A. from Connecticut College, an M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a Ph.D. from Duke University. His research interests include Roman historiography, Latin prose, the history of classical scholarship, and the history of the humanities. He is the author of the books Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography (2011), Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond (2016), and The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today (2020).
Recorded in May of 2025.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
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About Statius, the American Classical League Mentoring Program, and upcoming revisions to the Advanced Placement Latin curriculum.
Patrick Yaggy’s career in education began 25 years ago. Teaching first in Georgia and then later in Arizona, he is well-known within the Latin-teaching community for both his excellence in the classroom and his generous contributions to the profession. He has served as a Board Member of the North American Cambridge Classics Project and as the inaugural Chair of the American Classical League Mentoring Program, he has authored a textbook on the Thebaid of Statius, he has developed resources to complement the teaching of Caesar and Vergil, and he has created hundreds of instructional videos on YouTube. In the spring of 2024, Patrick accepted a position at the College Board, where he now serves as the Director of Assessment for Advanced Placement Latin and World Languages.
Recorded in April of 2025.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
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About Kefalonia, Roman baths, and the search for the real Odysseus.
The documentary Odysseus Returns premiered on PBS in August of 2024. The description of the film on the PBS website reads as follows: “An amateur historian, Makis Metaxas, claims he found the bones of Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s epic poem, the Odyssey. But the discovery is soon embroiled in controversy, and Makis embarks on his own odyssey to convince the world he is right.”
Ismini Miliaresis appears in this documentary, not only as an expert in the field of classical archaeology but also as someone who has a fascinating personal connection to this story. Ismini received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. After working as an engineer for several years, she returned to school and completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Virginia. She has published articles about the Stabian Baths of Pompeii and the Forum Baths of Ostia, and she has taught at such institutions as the American University of Rome, the University of Missouri, and the University of Virginia.
Recorded in November of 2024
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
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About England, the family of Caecilius, and revisions to a classic textbook about the classical world.
Caroline Bristow is the Director of the Cambridge School Classics Project. After earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in ancient history from the University of Oxford, she worked as a teacher for several years, teaching subjects such as classical civilization, classical Greek, religion, philosophy, and anthropology. She then moved on to become a Classics and Religious Studies Subject Specialist, working closely with the Department of Education to develop subject-specific guidelines and policies. In her role as Director of the Cambridge School Classics Project, a position she has held since 2017, Caroline oversees the Cambridge Latin Course, coordinates teacher support and training, participates in public outreach, and endeavors to make the ancient world accessible to a wide audience of students by advancing Classics pedagogy through research-based methodology.
UK School Latin Course Overhauled to Reflect Diversity of Roman World: The Guardian, July 10, 2022
CLARIFICATION: In the North American 5th Edition of the Cambridge Latin Course, the character Barbillus appears AFTER Stage 16 (i.e., in Stage 17).
Recorded in October of 2024
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
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About the Olympics, Athenian demagogues, and the importance of cultivating a love of Latin in local communities.
Bob Simmons is an Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. His research interests include Athenian demagogues, political and social conflict in 5th-century Athens, and sports in ancient Greece and Rome. He is the author of Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens: Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon, a book published by Bloomsbury in 2023. Over the course of his career, Bob has received such recognitions as the Award for Excellence in College Teaching from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, the Outreach Prize from the Society for Classical Studies, and the Charles Humphreys Award for Innovative Pedagogy from the American Classical League. In the summer of 2024, he served as the Co-Director of The Ancient Olympics and Daily Life in Ancient Olympia: A Hands-On History, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for K-12 teachers.
The other Co-Director of this NEH Institute – friend of the podcast Nathalie Roy. You can learn more about Nathalie and her innovative approach to classical studies in Episode 31 and Episode 3.
How Can We Save Latin in our Public High Schools? (Bob's 2019 article for the SCS Blog)
Show Me the Money: Pliny, Trajan, and the Iselastic Games (referenced by Bob at the very end of the episode)
Recorded in July of 2024
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
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About Cleopatra’s daughter, ancient prosthetic limbs, and the representation of women from antiquity in video games.
Jane Draycott is a Lecturer in Classics and Co-Director of the Games and Gaming Lab at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include the Roman territories of Egypt and Mauretania, science, technology, and medicine in the classical world, and video games set in classical antiquity. She received a B.A. in Archaeology and Ancient History and an M.A. in Ancient History from Cardiff University, a master’s degree in Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology from Cranfield University, and a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Nottingham. Jane is the author of Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen, a biography first published in the United Kingdom in 2022, and she shares her expertise about Cleopatra’s daughter in Episode 3 of Queens of Ancient Egypt, a 2023 television documentary series.
Recorded in July of 2024
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.
About Mississippi, the National Spelling Bee, and leaving the field of journalism to become a Latin teacher.
Sierra Mannie teaches Latin at Hunter College High School in New York City. Before she began teaching, however, she worked as a writer and journalist, with articles and editorials appearing in such publications as Time Magazine, the Jackson Free Press, and The Hechinger Report. More recently, she has also been a writer for the ABC television game show The Chase. Sierra received a bachelor’s degree in Classics and English from the University of Mississippi and a master’s degree in education from Hunter College. In 2017, she delivered a TEDx Millsaps College presentation entitled Tempora, Mores, and Other Complaints.
Recorded in November of 2023.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.
About tattoos, great books, and the dark side of the subjunctive.
Phuc Tran is the author of "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In," published by Flatiron Books in 2020. "Sigh, Gone" received the New England Book Award and the Maine Literary Award, and it was also named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon. Phuc received a bachelor’s degree from Bard College and a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and he spent more than 20 years as a high school Latin teacher.
In addition to his work as a classicist, writer, teacher, and tattoo artist, Phuc is known for his popular TEDx presentation entitled “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive.” A resident of Portland, Maine, he is also an occasional contributor to Maine Public Radio.
Recorded in November of 2023.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.
About Ronnie Ancona, Nava Cohen, John Gruber-Miller, and Mark Pearsall.
The American Classical League Merens (Meritus / Merita) Award is intended to recognize educators who are, as the name of the award signifies, deserving of appreciation for their "sustained and distinguished service to the Classics profession generally and to ACL in particular." In 2023, there are four recipients of this award, and in a special episode of the Quintilian podcast, we're going to speak with all of them: Ronnie Ancona, Professor of Classics at Hunter College in New York City and former editor of The Classical Outlook; Nava Cohen, a long-time elementary and middle school teacher in Illinois who is now a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University; John Gruber-Miller, a Professor of Classical Studies at Cornell College in Iowa and founding editor of Teaching Classical Languages; and Mark Pearsall, a teacher of both Latin and Greek at Glastonbury High School in Connecticut and one of the original architects of the ALIRA proficiency exam.
Recorded in July of 2023.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.
About Vindolanda, the Via Caledonia, and the fusion of Classics and STEM.
Nathalie Roy teaches Latin, Roman Technology, and Classical Mythology at Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A National Board Certified Teacher, Nathalie received both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Louisiana State University. Over the course of her career, she has served in a variety of leadership positions, including State Chair of the Louisiana Junior Classical League and President of the Louisiana Classical Association. In recognition of her innovative work in finding the parallels between classical antiquity and 21st-century STEM education, Nathalie has received grants from such corporations as Lowe’s and ExxonMobil, and she has received such recognitions as the 2021 Louisiana State Teacher of the Year Award and the 2023 Cambridge Dedicated Teacher Award.
Recorded in July of 2023.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.
About Cincinnati, Bob Dylan and the classical tradition, and lessons from the fall of the Roman Republic for the American people.
Thomas Strunk is an Associate Professor of Classics and Director of the Classics and Philosophy Honors Bachelor of Arts Program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a B.A. in Classical Studies and History from Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Loyola University Chicago. His research interests include Tacitus, Cato the Younger, the politics of the late Roman Republic, and Bob Dylan and the classical tradition. His most recent book is On the Fall of the Roman Republic: Lessons for the American People, published by Anthem Press in 2022.
Recorded in July of 2023.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.
About MovieTalks, detoxing from the textbook, and the challenges involved in coordinating a large program with multiple teachers.
Rachel Ash and Keith Toda are two of the Latin teachers at Parkview High School, a large public school in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Rachel earned a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.A. from the University of Florida. She currently serves as Treasurer of the American Classical League and as State Chair of the Georgia Junior Classical League, and in the past, she has served as Chair of Excellence Through Classics, the ACL division that is dedicated to promoting and supporting elementary, middle school, and introductory classical studies programs. Keith earned a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles, an M.A. from the University of Georgia, and an Ed.S. in Instructional Technology from Kennesaw State University. He has served as President of the Georgia Classical Association and as Chair of the American Classical League's Visibility and Advocacy Task Force. He also maintains the Toda-lly Comprehensible Latin blog, a popular repository of instructional resources for teachers who are interested in comprehensible input.
This episode was recorded in June of 2023.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please leave us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.
About Hawaii, community outreach initiatives, and using hip-hop rhythms to teach grammatical forms.
Daniel Harris-McCoy is Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Religions and Ancient Civilizations at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his B.A. in Classics from Reed College and Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. In between, he received a Fulbright Grant to conduct research on comparative philosophy in India. Dr. Harris-McCoy's research generally relates to ancient intellectual history. He has published on a diverse range of topics including ancient architecture, divination, classical reception, and language pedagogy. He has won multiple teaching awards, including the Board of Regents Medal for Teaching Excellence, and he is passionate about mentorship and community outreach.
English-Hawaiian Classical Dictionary
This episode was recorded in June of 2023.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please give us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.
About Pindar, stealth Latin, and the collection of demographic data about diversity in Classics.
Arum Park is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona. After earning a B.A. in Classics from Yale University, Arum taught high school Latin in Pennsylvania for three years. She then left the high school classroom to complete an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Over the course of her career in higher education, she has taught courses on a wide variety of Greek and Latin authors, she has published on Hesiod and Ovid, and she has written and presented extensively on the topic of diversity in the field of classical studies. Her most recent book, "Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus," was published in the spring of 2023 by the University of Michigan Press.
DEI Conversation Starters for the Introductory Latin Classroom
This episode was recorded in June of 2023.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying Quintilian, please give us a rating and/or a review on your favorite podcast distribution platform.
About archaeology, the Villa of the Mysteries, and four seasons at the American Academy in Rome.
Sarah Beckmann is the Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize fellow in ancient studies at the American Academy in Rome. Her research project, "The Villa in Late Antiquity: Roman Ideals and Local Identities," explores the Roman villa, not just in respect to the elites who owned these properties, but also in respect to the rural inhabitants and laborers who have traditionally been overlooked by classical scholars.
Sarah received a B.A. in Classical Languages from Carleton College and a Ph.D. in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2018, she has served as an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to her work on the Roman villa, Sarah's research interests include the sculpture of late antiquity and the representation of women and enslaved children in domestic arts.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!
About Australia, the ramifications of ChatGPT, and the intersection of the Latin language and LEGO® products.
Anthony Gibbins teaches Latin and Greek at Sydney Grammar School in Sydney, Australia. He is the creator of Legonium, a popular novella, social media account, and repository of instructional resources, all designed around the intersection of the Latin language and LEGO® products.
The description of the Legonium novella reads as follows: "A Latin reader like no other. Legonium is both a town and a tale. It is a town built entirely from LEGO® bricks, and filled with an incredible cast of characters. There is a struggling artist, a bank manager, a police officer, a private detective, plus a suspicious character spotted on the roof of the town bank, and, of course, Pico, the cat. And it is a tale told completely in Latin, with short sentences, a full range of grammatical structures, repetition of vocabulary, hundreds of pictures, and an English translation for reference. There is a police chase, a trip to Pompeii, a talkative parrot, and a mysterious suitcase."
CORRECTION: In Anthony's "Bella Stellaria" novella, R2D2 is called Erduum (not Erduus) and C3PO is called Tripium (not Tripius).
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!
About movement, building a family atmosphere in the classroom, and being recognized as the ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year.
William Lee has been the Latin teacher at Tom C. Clark High School in San Antonio, TX, for the past 20 years. He taught at Barbara Bush Middle School and Ronald Reagan High School in San Antonio for three years prior to accepting his current position. William is currently a member of the College Board's AP Latin Development Committee, and he currently serves as Vice-President of Texas Foreign Language Association, Vice-President of the Texas Classical Association, President of the San Antonio Classical Society, and as one of the State Co-Chairs of the Texas State Junior Classical League. In the past, he has held various leadership positions with the National Junior Classical League, and he also served as the Chair of the American Classical League's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
In recognition of his excellent teaching and remarkable service to the profession, William received the Society of Classical Studies Excellence in Teaching at the Pre-Collegiate Level Award in 2019 and the Texas Classical Association Gaylan DuBose Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020. In addition, William was named the 2021 Texas Foreign Language Association Teacher of the Year, the 2022 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching Teacher of the Year, and the 2023 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) National Language Teacher of the Year.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!
About ekphrasis, Latin in western North Carolina, and making the transition from classroom teacher to school administrator.
Ben Alexander is the Principal of A.C. Reynolds High School in Asheville, North Carolina. Before he moved into administration, Ben was a high school Latin teacher, first at White Knoll High School in Columbia, South Carolina and then Enka High School in Asheville. He began his administrative career in 2015, serving as an Assistant Principal at Enka High School and then Cane Creek Middle School. In 2019, he became Principal of Valley Springs Middle School, a position he held for three years before accepting his current position.
Ben earned an undergraduate degree in Latin from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, a master’s degree in Latin from the University of Georgia, and master’s degrees in educational administration from the University of Scranton and Appalachian State University.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!
About REDI, leisure on the Bay of Naples, and leadership initiatives for the American Classical League.
Jennie Luongo has been teaching Latin at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas for the past 28 years. She has taught every level of high school Latin, from level one to post-AP, and she has also coordinated study programs in Italy and Greece for both students and teachers. In 2018, she received the St. Andrew’s Teaching Award, and she was also presented with the inaugural Gaylan DuBose Teaching Award from the Texas Classical Association.
Jennie is currently serving as Lead Consultant for the AP Latin program, Moderator of the AP Latin Online Teacher Community, and Certamen Chair for the National Junior Classical League. She is also currently serving as President of the American Classical League.
Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney
Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!