68 Episodes

  1. 27 Oligarchy, Part 2: Nemesis w/ Matt Simonton

    Published: 01/10/2019
  2. 26 Oligarchy, Part 1: Genesis w/ Matt Simonton

    Published: 01/09/2019
  3. 25 The Origins of Philosophy w/ André Laks (Presocratics, Parmenides, Heraclitus)

    Published: 01/08/2019
  4. 24 A History of Inequality w/ Walter Scheidel

    Published: 01/06/2019
  5. 23 Greek Religion and Its Discontents w/ Barbara Graziosi

    Published: 01/05/2019
  6. 22 Rome's Lost Epics w/ Rhiannon Evans (Ennius, Gnaeus Naevius)

    Published: 13/04/2019
  7. 21 How to Succeed in the Iron Age w/ Alicia Stallings

    Published: 22/03/2019
  8. 20 How Democracies Fall Apart w/ Melissa Lane (stasis, Thucydides, Plato)

    Published: 22/02/2019
  9. 19 America's Greco-Roman Legacies w/ Caroline Winterer

    Published: 03/01/2019
  10. 18 A History of Epic w/ Gregory Nagy and Leonard Muellner (Homer, Iliad, Gilgamesh)

    Published: 11/09/2018
  11. 17 Platonic Love w/ Zina Giannopoulou (Plato's Symposium)

    Published: 22/07/2018
  12. 16 Dialogue and Dialectic w/ MM McCabe (Philosophy, Plato, Socrates)

    Published: 04/02/2018
  13. 15 Homer's Meta-Odyssey w/ Richard Martin

    Published: 05/01/2018
  14. 14 Did Aristotle Hold Science Back 2000 Years? w/ Peter Adamson

    Published: 21/11/2017
  15. 13 Decoding Atlantis w/ Mark Adams (Plato, Timaeus, Critias)

    Published: 27/10/2017
  16. 12 The Comedy of Democracy w/ Edith Hall (Aristophanes)

    Published: 21/09/2017
  17. 11 Caves and Classrooms w/ Raffaella Cribiore

    Published: 18/07/2017
  18. 10 Hannibal Takes On Rome w/ Patrick Hunt (Carthage, Polybius, Livy)

    Published: 14/06/2017
  19. 09 The World's Oldest Computer w/ Xenophon Moussas (Antikythera Mechanism)

    Published: 19/05/2017
  20. 08 Plato Strikes Back! w/ Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

    Published: 06/04/2017

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The podcast that transports you to the ancient world and back, with some good conversation along the way. It's not just about ancient Greece. It's about a huge chunk of human history that the Greek texts give us access to: from Egypt and Babylon, to Persia, to Carthage and Rome, we'll sail the wine-dark sea of history with some expert guides at the helm. Topics will include archaeology, literature, and philosophy. New episode every month.

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