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About Benjamin Phillips
I am Benjamin Phillips, Dean of Academics at Southeast Ohio Classical Academy. My MA is in Late Antique Intellectual and Literary History, with my thesis studying the reception of Vergil in the context of the early 5th-century political troubles. My interests are broad, but principally concerned with the Classical World and its afterlives. As a devout Christian, I am also very interested in Reformed Theology and Biblical Studies. When I'm not reading, I enjoy relaxing with my wife and daughter or hanging out with friends over a beverage or board game.NBN Episodes hosted by Benjamin:
November 28, 2025
Vergil
The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process …
December 5, 2024
The Lord Who Listens
What does it mean that God hears? Can a God who is "pure act" be affected in such a way? What does this mean for those whom God hears? Who are those p…
June 17, 2024
Settling Ohio
Scholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this reg…
May 21, 2024
A Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues
Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imperial…
February 7, 2024
The Complete Works of Claudian
Neil Bernstein's The Complete Works of Claudian (Routledge, 2022) offers a modern, accurate, and accessible translation of Claudian's work, published …
January 19, 2024
Lucan and Flavian Epic
Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Silius Italicus have all bee…
December 6, 2023
The Keys to Bread and Wine
How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived? In a world shaped by God, how did they treat environments marked by religi…
September 14, 2023
Plutarch's Prism
Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings and princes. Eliz…
September 9, 2023
Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire
Early in the third century, a small group of Greek Christians began to gain prominence and legitimacy as intellectuals in the Roman Empire. Examinin…
September 7, 2023
The Student
In The Student: A Short History (Yale UP, 2023), Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal mod…