By Tristan Hughes (host) and Jo Ball Abstract: We know all about the battles of the Roman Empire: the opposing sides, their weapons and incentives. But if history is written by the winners, what happened if you lost?…
With guest Edith Hall The theater was invented in ancient Athens, and its invention may have been connected to the emergence of democracy. In fact, public entertainment contributed in important ways to the functioning…
With guest Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Rebecca Newberger Goldstein joins Ancient Greece Declassified for a discussion about Plato, Socrates, and the legacy of Greek philosophy in the modern world. Goldstein is one of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hosted by Andrew Schiestel. Description: Ithaca Bound was a podcast hosted by Andrew Schiestel that explored history and mythology in the Mediterranean Basin. View on Spotify.
by Dr Rhiannon Evans and Matt Smith. Episode Description: Dr Rhiannon Evans (Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University) and host Matt Smith look at Augustan Rome’s good and bad – from culture to censorship. Episode in…
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…