Podcast | Gideon Nisbet on the reception of ancient Greece and Rome in film and videogames
Dr. Gideon Nisbet’s podcast on the reception of ancient Greece and Rome in film and videogames
Ancient Art Podcast | Medusa Up Close and Personal
Not sure we mentioned this related item from back in October:
Podcast: In Our Time | The Amazons
The Amazons
- via BBC Radio 4
Here’s the tease for this one:
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Amazons, a tribe of formidable female warriors first described in Greek literature. They appear in the Homeric epics and were described by Herodotus, and featured prominently in the decoration of Greek vases and public buildings. In later centuries, particularly in the Renaissance, the Amazons became a popular theme of literature and art. After the discovery of the New World, the largest river in South America was named the Amazon, since the warlike tribes inhabiting the river’s margins reminded Spanish pioneers of the warriors of classical myth.
With:
Paul Cartledge
A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge UniversityChiara Franceschini
Teaching Fellow at University College London and an Academic Assistant at the Warburg InstituteCaroline Vout
University Senior Lecturer in Classics and Fellow and Director of Studies at Christ’s College, Cambridge.
Podcast: Chatting About Alexander
ABC (the Australian version) had a nice little chat with Elizabeth Baynham from the University of Newcastle all about Alexander the Great in conjunction with the Alexander the Great, 2000 Years of Treasures which is currently on at the Australia Museum:
Podcast: IOT Epicureanism
Latest from Melvyn Bragg and the In Our Time folks:
… something to listen to while digging out …
Podcast: Art Institute of Chicago’s New Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Galleries
From the fine folks at the Ancient Art Podcast:
If you’ve never seen the other podcasts in the series, you might want to poke around their site …
Podcast: IOT Romulus and Remus
Some Classics big guns in this one … Mary Beard, Tim Cornell, and Peter Wiseman
Podcast ~ The Dacian Wars of Domitian and Trajan
From the fine folks at Ancient Warfare Magazine:
Podcast: The Battle of Carrhae
At the History Network
More Podcasts from UCincinnati
Tip o’ the pileus to Phoebe Acheson for alerting us that a number of podcasts had been added to UCincinnati’s lineup, including a two-part interview with Josephus (!) … I think there are some new Pompeii ones as well:
UC Classics Ancient World Podcasts
The University of Cincinnati just came out with some items to fill your travel time; details:
Podcast: De Re Publica Romana et Re Publica Americana: Some Surprising Discoveries
This looks interesting:
Dr. Dwight Castro, Westminster professor of classics, presented “De Re Publica Romana et Re Publica Americana: Some Surprising Discoveries” at the Faires Faculty Forum on Oct. 10.
The Founders of the American Republic looked to the ancient Roman Republic as an inspiration, and sometimes as a model, when designing and “selling” the form of government embodied in the U.S. Constitution. In developing a document of Latin terminology for a recent presentation at “Septimana Californiana” (“California Week”), Castro discovered how the realities of modern American government necessitated an exploration of periods of Roman history, other than just the Republic, in order to describe the three branches of the U.S. government.
- via: Classics professor reveals discoveries about the foundations of the U.S based on the Roman Republic
… links to the podcast in various forms at the original article …
Podcast: Before Rome Ruled Italy
From Ancient Warfare Magazine:
Podcast: Rome v Parthia
From Ancient Warfare Magazine:
Podcast: Core of the Legions
From Ancient Warfare Magazine:
Podcast: Hellenistic Kingdoms at War
From the Ancient History Magazine folks:
Podcast: Elite Units of the Hellenistic Era
From Ancient Warfare Magazine:
Podcast: The Campaigns of Agricola
From Ancient Warfare Magazine:
Podcast: The Roman Conquest of Spain
Another one from Ancient Warfare Magazine:
Podcast: Gaius Marius at War
From Ancient Warfare Magazine (my RSS reader seems to have suddenly awakened to these podcasts … we’ll be posting them over the next little while):
Podcast: IOT ~ The Druids
I don’t think I mentioned this one yet:
Great Lives: Juvenal
This one was mentioned on the Latinteach list … seems that the BBC is asking assorted folks to nominate people for their Great Lives biography radio series … the latest nominee is Juvenal … here’s the blurb:
Matthew Parris invites writer and comic Natalie Haynes to explain why her nomination for a Great Life is a Roman poet about whose life we know very little. Dr Llewelyn Morgan of Brasenose College Oxford helps her explain the enduring appeal of this scurrilous writer.
On the face of it, Juvenal’s life is hard to defend as a Great one. In the first place – as Dr Llewelyn Morgan, lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford, confirms – we know very little about his life. He may have been a first-generation Roman from a Spanish family; he may have served in army; he may have been sent into exile. None of this can be confirmed. What we do know is that he uses his Satires to rant and rail against women, foreigners, gays and the upstarts who are all ruining Rome – which might make him hard to love. But Natalie Haynes, veteran of the stand-up circuit and now a writer and critic, finds Juvenal an indispensable part of her life and is very happy to explain why.
- Juvenal (BBC Radio)
Podcast: Tony Perrottet on the Ancient Olympic Poetry Competition
I’m trying to track down assorted things at Australia’s ABC Radio and came across this (which, among other things, suggests I’ve been mispronouncing the name for quite a while):
Podcast: Ancient Greek Philosophy Meets Arabic Philosophy
A couple of weeks ago, Australia’s Radio National marked the death of Alan Saunders by replaying an interview on the spread of ancient knowledge to the Arab world:
