Robert Erickson and James Panero discuss Plutarch, plays, pastrami, and more. The second of our podcasts on the Hilton Kramer Fellowship.

The texts used in the New Criterion classics reading group are as follows:

—Histories, Herodotus, Landmark Edition, tr. Andrea L. Purvis, ed. Robert B. Strassler—Persians, Aeschylus, tr. Janet Lembke & C. J. Herrington—Theogony and Works & Days, Hesiod, tr. M. L. West—Parallel Lives, Plutarch, tr. John Dryden, ed. Arthur Hugh Clough—Metamorphoses, Ovid, tr. Charles Martin—Aeneid, Vergil, tr. Sarah Ruden