The First Historian Podcast
by Jennifer Roberts. Description: Jennifer Roberts, Professor of Classics at the City College of New York, discusses Herodotus. Podcast by Historically Thinking. View on the website.
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Classics and Colonial Presences in Egypt Podcast
by Heba Abd el Gawad and Usama Ali Gad. Description: Shivaike Shah talks to Dr Heba Abd El Gawad from University College London and Dr Usama Ali Gad from Ain Shams University in Cairo about the colonisation of…
Tragic Anti-War Spectacles Podcast
by Anastasia Bakogianni. Description: Classics Confidential’s own Anastasia is interviewed by Sonya Nevin about her work for War as Spectacle (Anastasia tells us how Greek tragedy was co-opted by film director Michael…
To boldly go: Greek exploration from wife-eaters to counting cows Podcast
by Katherine Clarke. Description: Dr Katherine Clarke gives a talk for the Classics Open Day, held on 15th March 2013. It focuses on the roles and features of exploration in Greek literature. Podcast by University of…
Why Diversify Classics? Podcast
by Arum Park. Description: A Google search for ‘diversity and Classics’ reveals the field’s growing dedication to diversity in recent years, particularly in North America and the United Kingdom. But what do we mean…
Greek Tragic Heroines in Later Literature Podcast
by Mihoko Suzuki. Description: What is the appeal of Greek tragic heroines for later writers, particularly women authors? During a visit to the University of Miami CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni met up with the Director of…
Aegyptiaca Romana
by Bet Hucks. Description: Bet Hucks talks about Roman importation and love of Egyptian art and other cultural material, the importance of thinking about material remains in assemblages and considering the contexts in…
Graeco-Arabic Studies
by Bink Hallum and Uwe Vagelpohl. Description: Bink Hallum and Uwe Vagelpohl discuss the formation of the Islamic civilisation through translation. Why were nearly all available Greek texts translated into Arabic? How…
Multilingualism and Diversity in Antiquity
by Rachel Mairs and Anastasia Bakogianni. Description: Dr. Rachel Mairs of Reading University covers her research on the Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions project based at Oxford University. Podcast by Classics…
Teaching the Classics through Performance
by Anastasia Bakogianni, Mary-Kay Gamel and T.H.M. Gellar-Goad. Description: Anastasia Bakogianni talks with Professor Mary-Kay Gamel of the University of California, Santa Cruz and T.H.M. Gellar-Goad of Wake Forest…