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Renowned archaeologist Franck Goddio talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky [below] about his efforts to recover artifacts from the ancient cities of Alexandria, Heracleion and Canopus, with special attention to discoveries related to Cleopatra and her reign.
via Cleopatra’s Alexandria Treasures | Scientific American Podcast.
Renowned archaeologist Franck Goddio talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky [below] about his efforts to recover artifacts from the ancient cities of Alexandria, Heracleion and Canopus, with special attention to discoveries related to Cleopatra and her reign. The exhibit Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt opens at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on June 5th. Web sites related to this episode include http://www.underwaterdiscovery.org
via Cleopatra’s Alexandria Treasures : Scientific American Podcast.
Seen on Classicists:
Dear all,
in the latest instalment of Classics in Discussion, Peter Mack and Maude Vanhalen discuss ‘Renaissance Thought: the Lost Continent between Logic and the Occult’.
The podcast can be downloaded directly from the Warwick web site
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/podcast
and should also be available soon on iTunesU
http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/warwick.ac.uk.2015041076
Here’s the ‘official description’:
Peter Mack and Maude Vanhalen discuss one of the most vibrant periods in human history.
The European Renaissance is one of those periods in history when everything seemed possible. The rediscovery of Greek texts led to a rebirth of literature and learning. Scholars across Europe and beyond formed a republic of letters, communicating across country and creed in a common language, Latin. Moreover, in this shared intellectual space, the arts and sciences flourished in extraordinary ways. It was the time when Plato rivalled Aristotle, when logic triumphed, when the light of reason pushed away the obscurantist clouds of a bygone age, as a Renaissance writer might put it. The Renaissance also witnessed a great concern with the occult: angels and demon, magic and mysteries were part and parcel of this enlightened age.
And yet, the Renaissance has now largely become a lost continent. The thousands and thousands of texts written in Latin and immortalised through the new invention of printing now lie largely unread and unstudied. For few are those who have enough Latin to peruse them.
But what were the intellectual and political forces which made this age of rediscovery and progress possible? Who were the scholars who brought Greek thought to Italy and the rest of Western Europe? And how did Platonic philosophy pave the way for numerology, demonology, and mysticism?
Christopher Biggins champions the life of the Roman Emperor Nero, a man whose modest talent for poetry was overshadowed by his debauchery, extravagance and tyranny.
Available as a “listen again” thing for only a week …
… seen on the Classicists list:
Dear all,
you can listen to the latest episode of Warwick’s ‘Classics in Discussion’ podcast. It is on ’Epic Poetry: from Homer to Virgil’.
It is also available on iTunesU; see http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/warwick.ac.uk.2015041076
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