podcasts

  • 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.

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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. The exhibit Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt opens at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia…

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  • 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…

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  • 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 … BBC – Nero.

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  • … 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’. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/podcast It is also available on iTunesU; see http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/warwick.ac.uk.2015041076

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