Patroclus is dead and Achilles is feeling seriously unhappy about it. And the Trojan army is going to know about it. But along the way, join us to give a sulking Odysseus a video game controller as a distraction and watch two grown men negotiate over a woman! Yay...

Sources for this episode:

TBA

We're sorry.

Sources for this episode:

• Apollonius of Rhodes (1972), The Voyage of Argo. Translated by E. V. Rieu. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd.

• The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2018), Linus (online) (Accessed 31/03/2025).
• The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2021), Lake Avernus summary (online) (Accessed 31/03/2025).
• Frazer, J. G. (1921), Apollodorus: The Library (Volume I). London: William Heinemann.

• Ovid (1968), Metamorphoses. Translated by M. M. Innes. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd.

• Smith; W. (ed.) (1867), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. In Three Volumes (Vol. 1-3.). Boston: Little, Brown, And Company.
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Oeagrus (online) (Accessed 31/03/2025).

The United States of America may only have been founded in the 18th century, but the influences on it stretch all the way back to the days of the Roman Empire and, before that, the Roman Republic. We sat down with Jerry Landry from the Presidencies of the United States podcast to talk about the Senate, cities called Carthage, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, and more!

Sources and quick references for this episode:

• Borritt, G. S. (1975), The Voyage to the Colony of Linconia. The Historian 37(4): 619-632.
• McGinley, G. J. (1927), Roman Law and Its Influence in America. Notre Dame Law Review 3(2): 70-88.
• McMahon, L. (2014), The Foederati, the Phoideratoi, and the Symmachoi of the Late Antique East (ca. A.D. 400-650). University of Ottawa.
• Mower, J. H. (1947), The Republic of Liberia. The Journal of Negro History 33(3): 265.
• Author unknown, Enders and Shirley (date unknown), Jane Carey Harrison (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Find A Grave (date unknown), Benjamin "X" Harrison (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Geotargit (date unknown), How many cities are called Rome in America? (online) (Access date uncertain).

• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Aurelian (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Brutus (Antifederalist) (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Caesar Augustus Rodney (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), History of Barcelona (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Jefferson Memorial (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Jefferson (proposed Pacific state) (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Jefferson territory (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Lincoln (proposed Northwestern state) (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Linconia (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Lucius Junius Brutus (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Lucretia Garfield (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Marcus Junius Brutus (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Muhammad Ali (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Neoclassical architecture (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Roman Senate (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Publius Valerius Poplicola (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Society of the Cincinnati (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), State of Franklin (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Texas divisionism (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), The Federalist Papers (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), The Rotunda (University of Virginia) (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), United States Capitol (online) (Access date uncertain).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), United States Senate (online) (Access date uncertain).