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...
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20 of 137 episodesThe 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...
Have We Broken the Golden Thread? Why the West’s Future Depends on Remembering Its Past
The West’s greatest peril is forgetfulness, its loss of cultural memory. Without knowing where we came from, how can we know what to defend,...
Homer's Forgotten Women
Who were the women of the Odyssey? How have they been understood (and misunderstood) by history? And what is the secret of Calypso’s sail? T...
Plato and the Tyrant: What Inspired Philosophy's Greatest Masterpiece?
Bridging the ancient and the urgent, historian James Romm and acclaimed author and translator Daniel Mendelsohn dive into the dramatic story...
The Life of Stories
Sometimes stories have a life of their own... literally. Today Anya is joined by Joel Christensen to discuss how mythology acts as a living...
The Ancient Secrets to a Healthy Diet
From specific dietary instructions to detailed systems to categorize foods and their health effects, ancient Greeks and Romans tried to opti...
They Contain Multitudes: The Contradictions of the Ancient Greeks
Tell me about a complicated culture… From the Peloponnesian War to the women of ancient mythology, today Anya is joined by Jennifer T. Rober...
The Meaning of Monsters in Greek Mythology
Centaurs, Snake-kings, Griffins, and Gorgons... ancient Greek mythology is filled with haunting hybrids. But how did these horrific monsters...
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