Secrets of Forgotten Pharaohs
The Amarna Letters: Love, War & Diplomacy in the Bronze Age World | Eric Cline What can 3,400-year-old diplomatic letters teach us about int...
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20 of 144 episodesLife Lessons From the Odyssey: Strength, Resilience, and Purpose
What can Homer's Odyssey teach us about resilience, trauma, grief, purpose, and living a meaningful life in the modern world? Clinical psych...
The Secret Legacy of Rome's Scholar-Slaves
Intellectual Slaves in Ancient Rome: The Hidden Minds Behind Roman Literature & Power What is an intellectual slave, and why did some of the...
The Power of the Bull
Why Did Ancient Civilizations Worship Bulls? From the Minotaur to Taurus, explore how bull symbolism shaped mythology, religion, power, and...
Should We Teach Philosophy to Children?
Should philosophy start in childhood? Discover how philosophy for children can improve critical thinking, empathy, communication, and emotio...
Does Ancient History Have A Future?
What Is the Future of Ancient History? In this deep, thought-provoking discussion, leading historians and philosophers explore what “ancient...
The Ancients and the Afterlife: Mythology, Mourning, and Mummies
What Did Ancient People Believe About Death and the Afterlife? Robert Garland explores how Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, and other ancient cult...
The Man Who Tried to Save Athenian Democracy
This episode is for anyone interested in ancient Greece, democracy, political history, and rhetoric, especially if you want to understand ho...
The Misunderstood Myth: Persephone, Hades & Demeter
What does the story of Demeter really tell us about loss, power, and the human experience? In this episode, renowned translator and classici...
Mary Beard: Why You Should Argue With the Ancients
What is the point of studying Classics today? Mary Beard explains why the ancient world still shocks, challenges, and reshapes how we think....
Rebellions Against Rome: The Jewish Revolts
An age of apocalyptic thinking, a clash of empires, and a legacy that still shapes the world today... Today Anya is joined by Professor Barr...
Natalie Haynes on Medea: Greek Tragedy's Most Shocking Heroine
Barbarian, witch, murderer… and mother. Today Anya is joined by author and broadcaster Natalie Haynes to discuss one of Greek mythology’s mo...
The Roman Guide to War
What were the secrets of Roman warfare? What is the best way to defeat an enemy… and what does all this have to do with aqueducts? Today Any...
What Can Ancient History Tell Us About Revolutions?
Long before crowds stormed Bastille or Winter Palace, Greek thinkers treated revolution as the ultimate civic nightmare. So how did an exist...
Slave of God: Should We Rethink St. Augustine?
Existing at the very edge of the Classical world, in both time and geography, Saint Augustine has proven to be immensely influential on the...
How Plato Explains the Modern World
What can Plato tell us about life TODAY? Quite a lot, it turns out… Today Anya is joined by Professor Angie Hobbs to discuss the essential a...
Man or Myth? King Arthur and Rome's Legacy in Britain
Was King Arthur real? What can his story tells us about British history and identity? And what exactly happened to Britain after the Romans...
Echoes in Ancient Texts: India and Ancient Greece
How is Odysseus like the heroes of Indian literature? And how did two cultures, separated by vast time and distances, come to have such rema...
The Life-Changing Lessons of Stoicism
What can Seneca, the Roman statesman and Stoic, teach us about life today? And how can we teach ourselves to do the right thing? Today Anya...
How Ancient Greece Revolutionized Thought
How did ancient Greek culture accomplish so much? Especially across so many different fields, and in such a comparatively short period of ti...