Khameleon Classics
Produced by Shivaike Shah
Abstract: For two thousand years, study of the Greek and Roman worlds has been at the centre of Western education. Khameleon Classics is the podcast that asks why. What is our fixation with Classics, and why does the classical world only encompass Greece and Rome? How can ancient history shed light on the fight for a fairer society today? And what responsibility does it bear for the complicated legacy of colonialism that we struggle to face up to even now? In each episode, producer Shivaike Shah speaks with an expert in the field about some of the most urgent questions facing the study of Classics today.
Podcasts include The Question of the Foreigner in Homer and Athenian Tragedy, with Carol Dougherty; Victorian Philhellenism and Greek Love, with Daniel Orrells; Classics and the British Empire in India, with Phiroze Vasunia; Expanding the Classical Canon, with Kathleen Cruz.
Find the podcasts online at https://www.khameleonproductions.org/khameleon-classics