Episodios

  • AH28 - Women in Classical Athens
    Apr 1 2026

    In this episode of the podcast, we talk to Katherine Backler about women in Classical Athens, what sources are available for the study of Classical Athenian women, the limitations of those sources, and how diverse women's experiences were in the ancient Greek world.

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    56 m
  • AH27 - White Pedestal with Curtis Dozier
    Mar 1 2026

    In this episode of the podcast, we talk with Curtis Dozier about how White Nationalists appropriate Greco-Roman Antiquity, why Greco-Roman antiquity appeals to White Nationalists, and how investigating the modern historiography can counter such appropriations

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    58 m
  • AH26 - A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre
    Feb 1 2026

    In this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jessica Clarke about the spread of theatre in ancient Italy, why the traditional Roman-centric narrative may be wrong, and how archaeology can offer an alternative perspective.

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    51 m
  • AH25 - Greek Mythology with Carolina López-Ruiz
    Jan 1 2026

    In this episode of the podcast, we talk to Carolina López-Ruiz about the many different variations of Greek cosmogony, how the Greeks thought about and interacted with mythology, and Near Eastern mythological parallels.

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    55 m
  • AH24 - Killing the Messiah
    Dec 1 2025

    In this episode, we talk to Nathanael Andrade about Jewish society in the first century AD, Roman governance of Judea, and the trial of Jesus of Nazareth.

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    59 m
  • AH23 - The World of Homer
    Nov 1 2025

    In this episode of the podcast, we talk to Michael B. Cosmopoulos about the history and archaeology behind the Homeric epics, the nature of oral poetry and social memory, and how these elements contributed to the creation of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'.

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    1 h y 5 m
  • AH22 - What is Ancient History? With Walter Scheidel
    Oct 1 2025

    In this episode of the podcast, we speak to Walter Scheidel, the most cited Roman historian in an active faculty position, about the history of the study of ancient Greece and Rome, how this area of study came to mean 'ancient history', and what the future of the subject looks like.

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    1 h y 3 m
  • AH21 - YouTube with Erica Stevenson
    Sep 1 2025

    In this episode of the podcast, we speak to Erica Stevenson, host of the YouTube channel MoAn Inc., about making Classics content for YouTube, the difference between Classics and Ancient History, and bringing the ancient world to new audiences.

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    51 m