{"podcast":{"title":"Ad Navseam","slug":"ad-navseam-1368151","podcast_index_feed_id":1368151,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/adnavseam/feed.xml","website_url":"https://adnavseam.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/9457531/Adobe_Express_-_filebjiyi.jpg","author":"Ad Navseam","episode_count":226,"summary":"The Ad Navseam podcast, where Classical gourmands everywhere can finally get their fill. Join hosts Dr. David Noe and Dr. Jeff Winkle for a lively discussion of Greco-Roman civilization stretching from the Minoans and Mycenaeans, through the Renaissance, and right down to the present.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ad-navseam-1368151"},"episode":{"title":"A Light in the Attic: Lysias' Speech Against Eratosthenes (Ad Navseam, Episode 217)","slug":"a-light-in-the-attic-lysias-speech-against-eratosthenes-ad-navseam-episode-217","published_at":"2026-04-21T11:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ad-navseam-1368151/a-light-in-the-attic-lysias-speech-against-eratosthenes-ad-navseam-episode-217","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ad-navseam-1368151","url":"https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/ad-navseam-episode-217/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/8ikg32ze9jcyting/AN217_-_1st_draft7s4ip.mp3","summary":"In the Athenian criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime (and who didn't exist) and the district attorneys (there were none of these either), who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. Dun dun. This week the guys take a close look, complete with dramatic reading of a cross-examination, at the rough-and-tumble world of late 5th century Athens and her notorious cutthroat law courts. On the menu is Against Eratosthenes, the most famous oration of Lysias, a resident alien (metic), who became wealthy as a hired gun speechwriter (logographer). Following the end of the Peloponnesian War, Sparta installed a brief and brutal aristocratic regime known as the Thirty Tyrants. These ruffians proceeded to murder many metics, including Lysias' brother Polemarchus (their father Kephalus makes a favorable cameo in Plato's Republic). Now, Lysias impeaches one of those tyrants, Eratosthenes, in a bid to get justice for his dead brother. Can he use his lean, unadorned style, and brilliant character portrayal (ethopoeia) to balance the scales? Also: Celebrate Rome's birthday today! Use coupon code ROME2779 at latinperdiem.com for 20% off any Latin class.","meta_description":"In the Athenian criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime (and w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3721,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ad-navseam-1368151/episodes/a-light-in-the-attic-lysias-speech-against-eratosthenes-ad-navseam-episode-217/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ad-navseam-1368151/a-light-in-the-attic-lysias-speech-against-eratosthenes-ad-navseam-episode-217.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}