Greek Life, Thought and the Wider World

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Philosophy texts read and chatted through; only the Greek texts are indexed

With Mark Lint, Philosophy Bro

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast · The Great Books read in seasons; the Homer, tragedy and Plato seasons are indexed

With Matthew Bianco

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Armand D’Angour

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With William H. F. Altman

William H. F. Altman's Ascent to the Beautiful (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) completes a five-volume reading order of Plato's dialogues, defending Alcibiades Major against Schleiermacher's rejection of it.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Adam Rose

Plato's Phaedrus has Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss Platonic love in the countryside, where Socrates critiques a speech by the orator Lysias claiming that love is harmful, then delivers a myth about the spiritual benefits of loving.

Part of The Ancient Philosophy Podcast

With Monte Johnson

Monte Johnson discusses reconstructing Aristotle's lost Protrepticus with Doug Hutchinson from excerpts preserved by later authors and papyri fragments, work he calls part of a wider loss: 99% of ancient Greek literature.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Alec Bianco

Alec Bianco and the Athenian Stranger join Dcn. Harrison Garlick to introduce Plato's Phaedo, on the soul, with a deep dive into its opening allusion to the myth of Theseus.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Socrates and Protarchus open the Philebus by distinguishing the one from the many in categorization, seeking the ratio of knowledge to pleasure in the good life through number and calculation.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The Visitor from Elea distinguishes being, an eternal changeless realm, from becoming, the continuously changing physical world, and the group revisited Socrates's proposition in the Phaedo that that which is not is unspeakable and unthinkable.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski turns from Plato's Republic to Aristotle's Politics, covering assumptions about government and how revolutions, demagogues and dissension can undermine democracies, oligarchies and tyrannies.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Concluding the Sophist, the Visitor from Elea argues that is not means only different from that which is, so many differences exist within one form of existence, with the host offering his own definition of the forms.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Johnathan Bi

Deacon Harrison Garlick, the Athenian Stranger, and Johnathan Bi open the Gorgias, where an inquiry into rhetoric between Socrates and Gorgias erupts into a war for the soul of Athens.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Concluding Plato's Phaedo, which ends with Socrates's execution, the group asks whether the mind causes physical outcomes, and Socrates argues the soul, as the Form of life, is deathless and eternal since life's opposite is death.

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With Brett Larson

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, Dr. Brett Larson, and Thomas Lackey draw on Plato's First Alcibiades and the Meno to discuss education and the teacher as a lover of the soul.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Ana Sandoiu

Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics closes with books eight through ten on friendship, asking with guest Ana Sandoiu what friendship has to do with living an ethical life.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Aristotle's De Anima or On the Soul, from around 350 BCE, turns in book three to the intellect's highest part, nous, a form of forms that is literally nothing until it thinks and survives death as a universal mind.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Timaeus, from 48(a), introduces Necessity as a container for the limits of Becoming and the four elements of earth, fire, water and air, raising whether physical objects or intelligence came first in the universe.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Sophist is read for its method of continuous division of expertise into opposites, with the Visitor from Elea warning that the worst ignorance is not knowing yet thinking that one knows.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

In the first session on Plato's Phaedo, Socrates presents the properties of the soul hours before his execution, arguing the soul exists before birth though its disintegration on death remains unresolved at 77(c).

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The second part of Plato's Phaedrus, from 257(c) to the end, asks whether speech exists to direct the soul, examining the legend of Thamus and Theuth and Socrates's call to divide a concept into kinds.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski opens History of Social Thought with Plato's Republic, examining the opening argument and preliminary answers to the question what is justice.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, from around 350 BCE, covers books six and seven, distinguishing several faculties of intelligence to explain Plato's puzzle of how a person can see the good clearly yet fail to pursue it.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Meno opens with Meno's question of whether virtue can be taught, and Socrates proclaims knowledge to be recollection and the account of the reasons why.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast · The Great Books read in seasons; the Homer, tragedy and Plato seasons are indexed

With Justin Brophy

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Alec Bianco

Ascend discusses First Alcibiades with Alec Bianco of the Circe Institute and the Athenian Stranger, calling it the best place to start with Plato.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Aristotle's De Anima or On the Soul, from around 350 BCE, opens with books one and two, defining life as the first actuality of a natural body with organs, so bodies express their nature only when growing and reproducing.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Theaetetus is discussed alongside a Joy of x interview by mathematician Steven Strogatz of computer scientist Melanie Mitchell, connected to Socrates's challenge to the Protagorean belief that man is the measure of all.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Theaetetus is explored through physicist Richard Feynman's account of acquiring knowledge, and the spiral of the geometer Theodorus, who joins Socrates in dialogue with the mathematician Theaetetus, raises whether Plato implies a relationship between geometry and knowledge.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Justin Brophy

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Fr. Justin Brophy finish Plato's Apology, discussing Socrates' defense at his trial, his thoughts on death and virtue, and the influence of Saint Justin Martyr.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The Timaeus, to 30(d), opens with Socrates unable to picture the idealized city of the Republic in motion before Plato turns to Atlantis and Timaeus's division of the universe into Being and Becoming.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Protagoras opens on whether virtue can be taught, with the sophist Protagoras selling his knowledge of it against Socrates's position that virtue cannot be taught, a battle of words that continues in a second part.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Socrates in the Phaedo, at 77(d) to 98(b), argues the soul finds wisdom freed from the body's motion, and distinguishes composite visible objects from the soul, which is noncomposite and invisible.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Charmides is read for Socrates's words that living scientifically was not enough without the one science of good and evil, asking whether knowledge of all knowledge, including of non-knowledge, is logically possible.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

With Michael Fitzpatrick

James Myers and Michael Fitzpatrick discuss modern Platonist Alain Badiou's philosophy of the event, connecting his ideas on truth, choice and exception to today's polarized politics and Plato's allegory of the cave.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Socrates holds virtue unteachable while Protagoras claims qualifications as its teacher, and the session asks whether virtue is a single entity or a range of connected attributes, and whether all knowledge is recollection as Socrates stated in the Meno.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The Timaeus passages from 53(a) to 72(d) cover sensory perception, triangles and the five Platonic solids that Plato revealed 2,400 years ago, with a question raised about a triangle at the sphere's very centre.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Speeches by Aristophanes, Agathon and Socrates relating Diotima's wisdom raise whether love is the mortal search for the universe's immortality, expressed between humans and by philosophers as lovers of wisdom.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Concluding the Protagoras, the sophist argues virtue is not a matter of knowledge while Socrates concludes it is, contradicting his own earlier view that virtue is unteachable in what Socrates calls a topsy-turvy result.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Concluding the Philebus, Socrates ranks measurement first among skills and distinguishes the philosopher's arithmetic from everyday mathematics, touching on the values of zero and one-half in the soul's recollection of unity.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

In Plato's Ion, Socrates tells the poet Homer's proponent Ion that since Homer represented an idea, Ion represents Homer's representation, comparing the divine power moving souls to a magnetic stone drawing iron rings.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Socrates and Protarchus open the Philebus by concluding the good life consists of a mixture of knowledge and pleasure, and the question becomes the ratio of that mixture, in which the soul applies calculation, reason and memory.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The first session on Plato's Parmenides has Parmenides and Xeno train the young Socrates in dialectic to identify a first principle, raising the third man argument's infinite regress in logic.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The first part of Plato's Timaeus, to 47(e), discusses the creation of the intelligent universe, with the logical flow that begins at 28(a) of the dialogue reviewed early in the second episode.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Timaeus, from 30(d) to 47(e), explains a universe centred on the soul, distinguishing the timeless realm of Being from the physical realm of Becoming while participants compared today's atomic model to his spherical universe.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski completes Plato's Republic, covering equality for women, communal child-rearing, the Allegory of the Cave, and how governments fall apart, and the Myth of Er.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Continuing from 28(a) to 33(d), Plato's Timaeus turns to the shape of the physical universe observable by intelligence, with Timaeus naming three types at 50(d): that which comes to be, that in which, and that after which.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski follows Socrates through Plato's Republic as government grows from its earliest organization into a state of luxury, with a tangent on the Laws of Lycurgus that influenced Plato and Aristotle.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The drunken Alcibiades erupts in love for Socrates as Plato's Symposium closes with the practical after six abstract speeches, and the discussion compared Alcibiades to the prisoner in the cave of the Republic.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Greater Hippias contrasts the boastful sophist Hippias's claimed intelligence with the Cratylus's definition of wisdom as knowledge of motion, showing Hippias's illogical attempt to measure fine and foul in physical objects.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Pavlos Papadopoulos

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos discuss Plato's Crito, set in Socrates' prison cell, exploring his refusal to escape and his debt of gratitude to Athens.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Joey Spencer

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, Thomas Lackey, and Dr. Joey Spencer open Plato's Euthyphro, a dialogue on piety, discussing piety as a political problem.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Plato's Sophist has a character called the Eleatic Stranger, not Socrates, use a method of division to work out what a sophist really is, after describing sophists as teachers of philosophy and rhetoric in Ancient Greece.

Part of Greek Mythology Retold

With Christopher Robertson

Christopher Robertson, author of The Hero and the Man and creator of the course Understanding Homer, discusses Homeric archetypes and the legacy of Achilles and Odysseus: why have these stories survived nearly three thousand years?

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Three speeches on love among Plato's hungover Athenians at the symposium are examined for a common thread, asking whether love is a god that rules over humans or one that humans are free to fashion.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Alex of the Cost of Glory podcast discuss Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades, calling its subject a real-life Odysseus with all the same twists and turns.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski opens his encomium of Plato's Symposium with Greek cultural assumptions behind love, through the speeches of Phaedrus, Pausanias, Erixymachus and Aristophanes.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski completes his encomium of Plato's Symposium, discussing how the love affair of Socrates and Alcibiades may have endangered Athenian civilization.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Socrates examines the perception of being without limit in the names applied to the gods, and the group asks whether anything stands fast or all is flux, as Heraclitus believed, and tests the word democracy.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

The fifth episode discusses Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, Books I and II, the only part of that text this episode takes up.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey discuss Hesiod's Theogony, covering the role of the Muses, the primordial god Chaos, Eros as a binding force, and Zeus as bringer of civilization.

Part of Literature and History

Nonnus' fifth-century Dionysiaca, the last epic from Greco-Roman antiquity to survive in full, tells of the wine god Dionysus' journey eastward, to India.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Critias tells of Atlantis, a wealthy society descended from the god Poseidon that lost its harmony to material wealth and brought upon itself the punishment of Zeus, disappearing in a great earthquake 9,000 years earlier.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Critias asks whether Atlantis's cataclysmic fall nine millennia earlier was real or a model civilization warning against the lust for possessions, drawing parallels to the Meno, Timaeus and Phaedrus.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Euthyphro, about to prosecute his own father for impiety, prompts Socrates to mention his accuser Meletus, raising the Euthyphro dilemma: is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or pious because it is loved.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl · Two Millennial women on emperors, assassins and mythological mayhem; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

This is the Dionysus of Thrace, of Mithradates, of Spartacus and of revolutionaries across the classical world, the story of a wandering god who inspired people to rise against injustice.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski discusses Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, showing how the Greeks conflated magic, myth, religion and history in ancient Greek mythology.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Orpheus and his Mysteries, the Orphic Hymns and Theogony, omens, divination and itinerant seers such as Teiresias, Mopsos and Kalchas, and the oracles at Delphi, in Boiotia, and at Didyma and Klaros.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was built of priceless hippopotamus ivory, tall as a three-storey building, and had to be oiled daily in the heat so it would not crack.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

The third episode traces how the temple of Artemis at Ephesus was built, who burned it down, who rebuilt it, and what happened there beyond worship.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam discuss Theseus, styled here as Heracles 2.0, weighing Greek geography, myth soup movies, and the film Immortals starring Henry Cavill.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures · University lectures on philosophy and the humanities; only the Greek lectures are indexed

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes, author of Stone Blind, argues ancient depictions do not always show Perseus as the hero of the Medusa myth, and that there is evidence that gorgons originally had a protective role in Greek iconography.

Part of Ancient History Hound

With Carla Ionescu

Guest expert Dr Carla Ionescu joins to discuss the goddess Artemis, uncovering aspects and associations often left in the background, from bloody rituals to a cake-based rescue.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Aphrodite, one of the most powerful goddesses of the Olympian pantheon, was a free and unattached woman whose sexual agency directly threatened the patriarchy, and the stories about her show how the Greeks felt about love and lust.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski discusses Hesiod's Theogony, introducing the first generation of gods and goddesses in the Greek Pantheon.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam break down the myths behind the Netflix series Kaos, weighing Prometheus against Zeus, trans people in myth, prophecy interpretation, and Hera's creepy tongue room.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

The labors continue for the famous hero Heracles as the episode asks whether he will be granted his place among the gods, whether Hebe will serve him wine from her godly chalice, and whether Eurystheus will finish his petting zoo.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The myths, iconography and worship of Hekate, goddess of magic, crossroads, ghosts and necromancy, her links with Artemis, Selene, the Erinyes, Kirke and Medeia, and the monstrous craft of curse tablets, binding spells, potions and amulets.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures · University lectures on philosophy and the humanities; only the Greek lectures are indexed

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sam and Sara explore the Amazons behind Wonder Woman, weighing misogynistic geographers, Artemis's rage, Scythian warrior women, and the myth of Actaeon from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

With Korshi Dosoo

Papyrologist Korshi Dosoo discusses the history, interpretation and makeup of the Greek Magical Papyri, starting in ancient Egypt and reaching all the way to Aleister Crowley and the Mormons.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

This final Wonder on the list of Seven Wonders stood where seawater meets freshwater, and in that primal land the legend grew of a divine huntress: Artemis of Ephesus, fierce protectress of women and children.

Part of Ad Navseam

The episode wraps up Lucian's account of Alexander the False Prophet in Abonoteichus, where the shyster teams up with apprentice Cocconas to go a-bilking with fake eggs, rumors of Asclepius and puppet snakes.

Part of Ad Navseam

Demeter gives the infant Demophoon nightly fire purgations for his mortality, is caught in the act, and decides to set up a cult at Eleusis, while Persphone must beware the pomegranate.

Part of Our Fake History

The so-called Olympic Spirit of fair play is said to descend from the ancient Greeks, yet ancient Olympia ran on a conquer-or-die mentality that celebrated athletes who sacrificed their lives for victory.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The myths, iconography and cultic worship of Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, love, sexual pleasure and procreation.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Nikita Gill

Award-winning poet Nikita Gill, whose work is haunting and fiercely feminist, joins to compare the goddesses, heroines and monsters of Greek and Hindu mythology.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Atalanta, created in the image of an ancient Artemis who had a strong association with bears, is discussed as a gender rebel and sexually liberated heroine, perhaps an older image of that goddess.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam chase the Golden Fleece through 1963's Jason and the Argonauts, tracing Hecate worship, stop-motion magic, the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, and Phineus and the Harpies.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, sex and passion, was also the patron goddess of sex workers in the Classical world, and the Romans transformed her into Venus.

Part of Greeced Lightning

With Jackie Banigan

Guest Jackie Banigan joins Sara and Sam to explore the myth of Orpheus as the rock star of ancient Greece, with Eurydice's loss, the Argonauts saved by his song, and the Parisian demimonde of Moulin Rouge.

Part of Ad Navseam

At Epidauros, invalids sought healing from Asclepius in the abaton, near a theater, stadium and the tholos where his remains were said to be buried.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam dish up the myth soup that is Percy Jackson, with Phidias's Athena Parthenos, Chiron's anatomy, Athena and Poseidon competing to be patron of Athens, and Aeschylus's Eumenides.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam tour Disney's Hercules as Sara teaches everything about this himbo hero, with Sophocles' Women of Trachis on his death and Euripides' Alcestis, where he saves the heroine.

Part of Our Fake History

The original members of the International Olympic Committee believed the ancient Greek games at Olympia were noble expressions of sporting virtue, but the real ancient Olympics were rough, unhygienic, often corrupt and frequently violent.

Part of Ad Navseam

Consulting the oracle of Apollo at Delphi meant climbing Mount Parnassus, making purifications and offering sacrifices first, and an answer no more straight-forward than poor old Croesus got.

Part of Greeced Lightning

The hosts end their time with the Titans on 2012's Wrath of the Titans, taking in Pandora, Hephaestus and Rip Torn's Greek God kudos, with Pseudo-Apollodorus's Library and the Gigantomachy frieze of the Pergamon Altar.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam open the Titans saga with 1981's Clash of the Titans, tracing Perseus and Andromeda through Ovid and Ray Harryhausen, plus ancient art, special effects, and Laurence Olivier.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The myths, iconography and cultic worship of Hera, queen of the heavens and wife of Zeus, and guardian of women, marriage, childbirth and the family unit.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Heracles, son of Zeus and the strong man of Greek myth, lived for a time as a woman, submissive to a powerful female who took up his lionskin and club.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Ten years after their first episode, the hosts revisit Persephone and Hades, looking at the same myth again through a decade of new experiences and life changes.

Part of Ad Navseam

Ancient Greek parents frightened children with the blood-thirsty Mormo, the seductive Lamia and the dung-footed Empousa, and the guys also wander into Athens' most-haunted house, watching for dead relatives.

Part of Greeced Lightning · Myths and movies with a doctor of classics; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

With Dylan Burns

Dylan Burns, Copticist and scholar of Platonistic esotericism, discusses the Platonistic Sethian tractates and the movements behind them, covering ancient texts, methodological distinctions, cosmic catastrophe and salvation.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Artemis of Ephesus was older than her Classical Greek counterpart, rooted in the ancient Near East and cousin to deities such as Kybele and Egyptian Bastet.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With David Lunt

David Lunt's Crown Games of Ancient Greece (U Arkansas Press, 2022) covers nine centuries of Panhellenic festivals for Zeus at Olympia, Apollo at Delphi, and Poseidon at the Isthmian Games.

Part of Ad Navseam

Lucian of Samosata, a second-century satirist born in the further reaches of Asia Minor, wrote A True Story and took on the fraudulent shyster Alexander, with Erasmus and Thomas More somehow involved.

Part of Our Fake History · Myths that pass for history; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

With Christian Hervik Bull

Christian Hervik Bull discusses the way of Hermes in antiquity in the final Hermetica-series episode, covering renunciation, immortalisation, hypercosmic ascent and animated statues.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Ken Brown

Ken Brown returns to discuss more Aesop fables and determine their morals with the host, an episode said to contain animals, gods, murder and gore.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Melinda Tracy Boyce

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Liv Albert

Liv Albert from Let's Talk About Myths Baby joins to explore how Dionysus subverted Roman patriarchy, plus theatre practices of the ancient Greeks, alongside retellings of Medea, Medusa and the playwright Euripides.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic conclude their journey into Greek mythology with the quest of Jason and the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece, asking whether the Greeks still worshipped the Olympian gods in the more skeptical Hellenistic age.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Natalie D'Alacio

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

With Bink Hallum

Bink Hallum, whose doctoral research centred on the Arabic Zosimean corpus, explores astral influences, daimones and demons, talismans and Enochic ideas in Zosimus of Panopolis.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With John Castro

Friedrich Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy argues that ancient Greek tragedy achieved a perfect synthesis of the formal and orderly with the intuitive and chaotic, a civilization's vitality shown by its art, until Socrates ruined it, with guest John Castro.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Eli Stone

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Eli Stone, and Josiah discuss Oedipus the King by Sophocles, the play Aristotle called the best tragedy and the second in the Theban plays.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Frank Grabowski open Euripides' The Bacchae, tracing Dionysus' transformation from Homer's jovial wine god into a cruel and diabolical figure, in a tragedy exploring the fragility of societal order.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

A roundtable of friends wraps up Ascend's exploration of the Greek plays, from the Oresteia and Prometheus Bound to the Theban plays and the Bacchae, tracing themes of divinity, fate, and justice.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With David Niles

Dcn. Harrison Garlick, David Niles of the Catholic Man Show, and Dr. Frank Grabowski open Sophocles' Antigone, called the dark sign from the gods, as a meditation on piety.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With David Niles

David Niles and Dr. Frank Grabowski join Dcn. Garlick to finish Sophocles' Antigone, asking whether Antigone is the hero and how Haemon's interaction with Creon highlights his character and challenges Creon's perspective.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Eli Stone

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Eli Stone open Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, the third play published in the Theban cycle but second in its narrative chronology, recorded in rural Oklahoma.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Lucy Lawless, Paul Provenza

Sophocles's Antigone, an ancient Greek tragedy, gets a philosophical discussion alongside a performance PEL also did with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza.

Part of Literature and History

Euripides' The Bacchae, called one of the darkest and bloodiest works of Ancient Greek tragedy, concerns the spread of cult religions during the late Peloponnesian War.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

The podcast concludes Euripides' The Bacchae with the tragic descent of King Pentheus and the Bacchae as a parasite upon society and the question of piety under an evil god.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey open Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, which tells of the homecoming of Agamemnon and is predominately animated by revenge.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Eli Stone

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Eli Stone conclude Oedipus at Colonus, where Sophocles brings Oedipus to a redemptive end and the two discuss redemptive suffering and the binding power of love.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Jared Zimmerer

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Jared Zimmerer discuss Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, the first play of an otherwise lost triad, calling it the story of man and civilization, set against Prometheus' rebellion and Zeus' tyranny.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey close Aeschylus' Oresteia with the second half of The Eumenides, where Athena conducts the trial of Orestes at the Areopagus, the Crag of Ares.

Written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, this 1969 Italian film is based on the myth of Medea and stars Maria Callas in her only film role, largely following the myth of Jason and the Argonauts and Euripides' play Medea.

Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote and directed this 1967 Italian film based on Sophocles' 428 BC tragedy Oedipus Rex, starring his regular collaborator Franco Citti alongside Alida Valli and Carmelo Bene.

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

Directed by Philip Saville, this 1968 British film adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy Oedipus Rex stars Christopher Plummer as the title character, Orson Welles as Tiresias, Lilli Palmer as Jocasta and Richard Johnson as Creon.

Yorgos Javellas directed and adapted this 1961 Greek film version of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, starring Irene Papas in the title role.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Thomas Lackey, and Adam Minihan open The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, where Orestes appears as both the hero and the victim of the cycle of violence.

Part of Literature and History

Masks, choruses, huge prosthetic penises: before reading Sophocles, Euripides and company, the episode says, it is a good idea to know a bit about ancient Greek theater.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey open The Eumenides, the third play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, tracing justice's shift away from the familial blood avenger.

This 1957 tragedy film records the Canadian Stratford Festival production of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of Sophocles' play, with the actors performing in masks designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch, as was the practice in Ancient Greek theatre.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Lucy Lawless, Paul Provenza

An unrehearsed, fun read-through of the Greek tragedy from 441 BCE with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza, plus some discussion with the cast of Greek drama and of the selected translation.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Andrés Carrete, David Gaitán, Perla de la Rosa

Dr Andrés Carrete of the Center for Hellenic Studies joins Naomi to discuss Sophocles' Antigone, then Mexican playwrights David Gaitán and Perla de la Rosa talk about their own versions of Antigone as political theater.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Philosophy texts read and chatted through; only the Greek texts are indexed

With Lucy Lawless, Emily Perkins, Erica Spyres

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Adam Minihan, Thomas Lackey, and Dr. Frank Grabowski finish Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, where Clytemnestra dominates her husband through murder, manipulation, and denial.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Afroditi Angelopoulou, Larry Tye

Naomi introduces Aeschylus' Oresteia, first performed in 458 BCE, discussing its politics with Professor Afroditi Angelopoulou of the University of Southern California, then talks to journalist Larry Tye about Robert F. Kennedy's use of Aeschylus in 1968.

Part of Ad Navseam

Sophocles' Trachiniae leaves it unclear whether Deianeira is an innocent wife or a calculating rival to Iole, closer to Euripides' Medea or Phaedra, with Heracles as villain or hero.

Part of Ancient Greece Today · Naomi Weiss with scholars and artists on the Greek world in the present

With Rosa Andújar, Josh Billings

Part of Ancient Greece Today · Naomi Weiss with scholars and artists on the Greek world in the present

With Mark Griffith, Annie Dorsen

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Yvona Trnka-Amrhein, John Gibert

Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and John Gibert, both of the University of Colorado Boulder, publish the editio princeps of a newly-discovered papyrus containing lines from Euripides' fragmentary plays Ino and Poluidos.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Tsh Oxenreider

Tsh Oxenreider joins the podcast to discuss The Frogs by Aristophanes, where Dionysus travels to Hades to bring back Euripides and hosts a poetry contest between Aeschylus and Euripides.

Part of Ad Navseam · Two classicists in lively discussion; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam tackle Aristophanes's comedy Lysistrata through Spike Lee's Chi-Raq, weighing a vow of chastity, a big brass bed, and John Cusack's role in the film.

Part of Young Heretics

Aristophanes, the genius of Old Attic Comedy, satirizes a declining education system in his play Clouds, raising the question of whether Socrates was part of the problem or part of the solution.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Zena Hitz

Dr. Zena Hitz of St. John's College joins Dcn. Harrison Garlick to discuss The Clouds by Aristophanes, its critique of Athenian society, and its questions about education and piety.

Part of Ancient Greece Today · Naomi Weiss with scholars and artists on the Greek world in the present

With Lucy Jackson, Monica Youn

Part of Ad Navseam

Aeschylus has Io, tormented by a gadfly, show pity for the chained Prometheus, testing Stephen White's thesis that the play reinforces ancient Greek gender roles.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic examine Oedipus, the mythic king of Thebes who murdered his father and unwittingly married his mother, asking whether the tragedy was based on a real event and noting its later influence on Freud's reading of the subconscious.

Part of Ad Navseam

Aristophanes' Clouds stages a debate between Superior Argument and Inferior Argument, asking whether might makes right, whether rhetoric is all there is to law, and whether Pheidippides can be trusted with logic.

Part of Ad Navseam

With Deborah Roberts

Deborah Roberts of Haverford College helps open Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, with the dialogue between smith god Hephaestus and the personifications Power and Violence, and how this telling differs from Hesiod.

Part of Ad Navseam

Aristophanes' Frogs imagines Dionysus, god of tragedy, descending into Hades in 405 BC to bring the recently dead Euripides back, since there are now no good poets left.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Ella Haselswerdt, Rosanna Bruno

Naomi discusses Euripides' Trojan Women, long considered the oldest anti-war play, with Professor Ella Haselswerdt of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Rosanna Bruno, illustrator of Euripides' Trojan Women: A Comic.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic explore Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstasy, revelry and madness, and the tragedy of the Bacchae, examining why female cults built around him were believed to be integral to the survival of Athens.

Part of Ad Navseam

Aristophanes' Clouds mixes the lofty and the scatological, and Socrates offers to teach how making Inferior Argument stronger dodges the Christmas credit card bills that recently came calling.

Part of Ad Navseam

With Diane Arnson Svarlien

Translator Diane Arnson Svarlien discusses her new edition of Aristophanes, covering Lysistrata and the Ladies of Thesmophoria, and what it takes to translate his comic Greek verse.

Part of Ad Navseam

Relying on David Konstan, the guys take up Ocean and the chorus of Oceanids in Prometheus Bound and compare it with Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Euripides' Hippolytus, through Deborah Roberts' translation.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The context and themes of the surviving plays Euripides produced against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War, from Children of Herakles and Hekabe to Trojan Women, Orestes and Iphigenia at Aulis, leaving out Bakkhai.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Thomas Lackey, and Adam Minihan finish The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, as Orestes moves toward his climactic role as blood avenger.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know · Three teachers on the classical world; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

Antigone, the last play of the Theban cycle, ends with a string of deaths triggered by one already-dead man, and the hosts also get into questions of law.

Part of Young Heretics

Opening a three-part series on civil disobedience, Spencer Klavan covers Sophocles' Antigone and the philosophy of nonviolent civil disobedience.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Lyndsay Coo, Janet Eilber

Dr Lyndsay Coo of the University of Bristol discusses Sophocles' Oedipus the King with Naomi, and Janet Eilber, Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, talks about Graham's 1947 dance Night Journey, telling Oedipus's story through Jocasta.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Georgetown classicist Claire Catenaccio on the evidence for ancient music, the Song of Seikilos, the aulos, the popularity of Euripides' new music, and what his songs sounded like, with three songs over 2000 years old.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Eric Csapo, Peter Wilson

Eric Csapo, Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick, and Peter Wilson, William Ritchie Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney, discuss their three-volume social and economic history of the theatre to 300 BC.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

Bees walks through the story of Oedipus, an ancient Greek figure who refuses to listen to the oracles, with the hosts repeating the same advice: listen to the prophets.

Part of Young Heretics

Aristophanes' comedy Assemblywomen imagines women running the world through the abolition of the family, the imposition of matriarchy and communism of everything including sex, all played for raunchy humor.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Mario Telò

Mario Telò's Archive Feelings (Ohio State UP, 2020) reads Greek tragedy through Derrida's Mal d'Archive and the death drive, locating its aesthetic pull beyond catharsis.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

Bees leads this episode on Oedipus at Colonus, a play by Sophocles, with the word Sophoclesian coined for it along the way.

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Owen Rees on the definition of a hoplite, cavalry and light infantry, and why the concept of an honorable western way of war that seeks its origins in Greek warfare is bogus and hyped up in modern ideology.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

With Owen Rees

Dr Owen Rees on his book Military Departures, Homecomings and Death in Classical Athens: how hoplites left for war and came home, how the war dead were treated, and competing theories on trauma in ancient soldiers.

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

Part of Literature and History

Aeschylus' Oresteian trilogy, one of three: a terrible family curse, a wronged queen, and a Trojan War that was only the start of the bloodshed, in this episode of Literature and History.

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski examines Euripides' The Trojan Women and how Euripides uses and abuses Homeric form and theme to make a political argument meant to prevent the greatest political and military catastrophe in the history of Athens.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

With Myke Cole

Myke Cole on his book The Bronze Lie, which peels back the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy; just about no Spartan writing survives, so everything known comes from outsiders looking in.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

Part of Our Fake History

Remembered as unbeatable super-soldiers whose whole society was geared towards war, the Peloponnesian city-state has inspired groups across the political spectrum, though from the 1930s historians started to question the received wisdom, some arguing for a so-called Spartan Mirage.

Part of Literature and History

The second of Sophocles' Theban Plays, Oedipus at Colonus, rising out of the ashes of the Peloponnesian War, tells of a man who has lost everything but his own dignity.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

The Thracians served as hired assassins, enforcers and mercenaries, the ones Romans and Greeks turned to for their really dirty work, and ancient sources plus modern archaeology build a picture of how they lived, loved, fought and died.

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Seventy-five minutes with Johanna Hanink on translating Thucydides' speeches for her 2019 book How to Think About War, and on the deeper meaning behind many of his speeches.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Liv Albert

Liv Albert from Let's Talk About Myths Baby explores Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which immerses players in Ancient Greece through the symposia of Athens, Corinth, the Peloponnesian War and Crete.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Hippolyte and her golden belt, Penthesilea and the fall of Troy, and the Daughters of Ares: fierce warrior women recur everywhere in Greek mythology, in a male-dominated society.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl · Two Millennial women on emperors, assassins and mythological mayhem; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast · Panel discussions from Ancient Warfare Magazine; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Marc de Santis, Philip Lindsay Powell, Myke Cole

Part of Spartan History Podcast

With Myke Cole

Author Myke Cole discusses his book The Bronze Lie, which dismantles the Spartan mirage and its appropriation by ultra nationalist movements, aiming to leave a fair and unbiased representation of the real Spartan story.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With David M. Pritchard

David Pritchard, Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland, edits The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux, and researches the symbiosis between war, democracy and culture in classical Athens.

Part of Greek Mythology Retold

With Eirene Allen

Classicist Dr. Eirene Allen discusses her book The Epic Women of Homer and the forms of power Homer gives women including Penelope, Helen, Andromache and Briseis: have modern readers simply overlooked how they wield it?

Part of The Ancients

With Roel Konijnendijk

Characterised as super soldiers who would rather perish than surrender, the Spartan warrior's reputation preceded it; Tristan and Dr Roel Konijnendijk ask how accurate that image is against their education, training and familial expectations.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

With Shilo Brooks

Brian, Shilo and Jeff discuss the difference between sexual and political love in Book VI, and the connection between love and gratitude, while the army of Cyrus, complete with siege engines, prepares to attack the Assyrian host.

Part of In Our Time · The BBC seminar format; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Echoes of History

With Tristan Hughes

Built atop the Acropolis in Athens during the 5th century BCE, the Parthenon's construction was completed just before the Peloponnesian War; Tristan Hughes guides Matt Lewis through its origins in embezzlement and its ruin in war.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

With Roel Konijnendijk

Murray talks with Roel Konijnendijk about how 19th-century German language scholars such as Moltke, Delbrück, Kochly and Rustow's foundations for understanding Classical Greek warfare were only seriously challenged in the late 20th century.

Part of The Rest Is History

Herodotus, a Greek historian of the 5th century BC born on the western edge of an empire stretching to India, wrote The Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars considered the founding work of History in Western literature.

Part of In Our Time · The BBC seminar format; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

With Shilo Brooks

Shilo Brooks returns to continue the exploration of Book II, where Cyrus goes to war against the Assyrians, and the hosts try to tease out what fundamentals of warfare Cyrus discovers versus what the Persians teach him.

With Jo Furniss, Andrew Bayliss

Jo Furniss asks whether Sparta, where 300 soldiers died at Thermopylae in 480BC and weak babies were culled, was really a utopia, or whether Aristotle was right that it turned men into machines.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Silvannen Gerrard argues that the Seleucid military, heir to cataphracts, horse archers, scythed chariots and war elephants, was capable and adaptive, against a long scholarly view of such troops as a passing fad.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

With Myke Cole

Murray and Mark discuss Myke Cole's book The Bronze Lie with the author, examining Spartan arms, armour, tactics, commanders and common soldiers, with particular focus on under-publicized Spartan defeats left largely unexamined.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Ferdia Lennon

Ferdia Lennon, winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024, discusses his novel Glorious Exploits, set in Syracuse after the Athenian invasion of Sicily during the Peloponnesian War.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Roel Konijnendijk

Roel Konijnendijk, Darby Fellow in Ancient History at the University of Oxford, explains how a Greek army operated and takes in some of the most decisive pitched battles of the period.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

With Stephen DeCasien

Murray and Jasper are joined by nautical archaeology PhD candidate Stephen DeCasien to discuss rams on ships, drawing on his academic focus on Greek and Roman maritime history, naval warfare and warships.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Whatever listeners thought about Ares before, the hosts think they can change minds a little, talking about propaganda, roosters, and learning lessons from mistakes.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

With James Romm

Murray and Mark talk to James Romm about his book The Sacred Band, on three hundred Greek lovers fighting to save Greek freedom, a story previously suppressed by Xenophon, who mistrusted male eros.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Nautical archaeologist Stephen DeCasien on the evolution of the navy in the Hellenistic Age, the practicalities of building the gargantuan Tessarakonteres, and why it fell out of favor after Actium in 31 BC.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Andrew Bayliss

Dr Andrew Bayliss, professor of Greek History at the University of Birmingham, traces the rise and fall of Sparta, separating fact from fiction in its brutal education system and eventual downfall.

Part of In Our Time

Thucydides wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War in the fifth century BC about a conflict in which he had himself taken part, arguably the first historian to attempt a rational, impartial and objective approach to his scholarship.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Adam Schwartz

Dr Adam Schwartz of the University of Copenhagen explains the hoplites, Greek people, most of them citizens, who fought in battles as their city-states required.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Stephen Hodkinson

Emeritus Professor Stephen Hodkinson of the University of Nottingham examines the revered reputation of ancient Sparta's military, its practices, and to what degree the evidence matches that reputation.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Paul Johstono on his book on the Ptolemaic army from 323 to 204 BC, which challenges the view of Ptolemaic rulers as decadent and lazy, found in writers like Polybius, and reasserts Egypt as a significant military force.

Part of In Our Time

Sparta was a ferocious opposite to cosmopolitan Athens, instilling military discipline in its young men through communal living while subjugating the Helots, yet it also produced poets, as Tyrteaus wrote marching songs and Alcman wrote choral lyrics.

Part of History Unplugged Podcast

With Myke Cole

Their last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends, but guest Myke Cole's book 'The Bronze Lie' argues their militarism aimed mainly at controlling the helot population, and their hegemony over Greece was brief.

Part of The Ancients

With Susan Deacy

Ares, god of war and bloodlust, was often overshadowed by more famous siblings despite being a major figure in the Greek pantheon; Tristan and Professor Susan Deacy explore his role as the first kin-slayer and his reputation across history.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Hellenistic mathematics put to practical use: torsion catapults, enormous ships, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the pneumatics of Ctesibius and Hero, with the earliest known automatons and a predecessor of the steam engine.

Part of Myth Madness: A Mythology Podcast

Cursed like their father Oedipus, Eteocles and Polynices fought over the throne of Thebes; exiled Polynices gained support from Adrastus, king of Argos, and the scoundrel Tydeus, then led an army against Thebes.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

The elephant as an icon of the Hellenistic period: war elephants in battles like Ipsus and Zama, the insights of Aristotle and Megasthenes, and elephants as symbols of power for Hellenistic rulers.

Part of Ancient History Hound

This episode asks what advantages the agoge and syssitia gave Spartan soldiers, what hoplite battle was like, and whether Plutarch's sayings about the Spartans in war were just a later invention.

Part of Myth Madness: A Mythology Podcast · Myths from around the world; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Myth Madness: A Mythology Podcast

Dangerous centaurs fought the human Lapiths, led by Pirithous, in a mythical war that began with trouble at Pirithous's wedding; his ill-fated friendship with Theseus is also covered.

Part of Mythology & Fiction Explained

The giants of Greek mythology are traced through their creation, battles and personalities, most famously the Gigantomachy, the epic battle between the gods and the giants.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode covers the Greeks who fought alongside hoplites: those who could not afford hoplite armor served as light infantry, those wealthy enough to keep horses could serve in the cavalry, plus the role of mercenaries.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Judith Mossman

Judith Mossman revises three of Plutarch's biographies, of Aristides, Cimon and Pericles, for the Ancient History A Level syllabus, with a bonus five minutes appended to the main revision episode.

Part of Garner's Greek Mythology

Violence was everywhere for the ancient Greeks: men constantly warring, gods randomly exerting their power, Olympic gods fighting each other, war waged to replenish slaves, and mortals punished for thinking too highly of themselves.

Part of Myth Madness: A Mythology Podcast

Athena, goddess of wisdom and war, one of the most important Olympians and viewed as Zeus's lieutenant, often bears his Aegis; the episode discusses her main myths, what the Aegis is and what it may actually refer to.

Part of Myth Madness: A Mythology Podcast

Ares, responsible for the chaotic elements of war and a lust for battle, had few temples but mattered to Greek soldiers on campaign; his affair with Aphrodite is his best-known myth, with his strange Homeric Hymn and the Roman view.

Part of Garner's Greek Mythology

The Amazons, sired by the war god Ares and almost unstoppable as fighting machines, confronted Greece's greatest heroes and over almost a thousand years opposed Heracles, Theseus, Achilles, and even partied with Alexander the Great.

Part of Garner's Greek Mythology

The mighty Spartans dominated the Greek world in war, their society founded by a man named Lycurgus, or perhaps by Apollo, or from a bloodline running from the sons of Heracles, across a mere 300 years of glory.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Prof. Paul Cartledge on the Spartan mirage: education, political structure and military, the unique status of Spartan women, and later uses of Sparta, from the movie 300 to the French Revolution and North America.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Sex workers in ancient Greece sometimes had more freedom than most in the Greek world could imagine, a freedom that came at a price for the famous Hetaerae of Classical Athens.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Greek love and sexuality through pederasty, the theories of love in Plato's Symposion, nudity in art, female and male prostitutes and the evidence for their daily life, and famous hetairai such as Aspasia and Phryne.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Growing up in Athens from birth to adolescence: childbirth, childhood, the rites of passage on the way to the teenage years, Old and New paideia, and the training boys undertook to be accepted as hoplite citizen warriors.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Life for the elderly, the liminal stage between life and death, funeral and burial rituals, the archaeology of the Kerameikos, the demosion sema and epitaphios logos in Athenian democracy, and funerary monuments from archaic to Hellenistic.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

With Flint Dibble

Archaeological scientist Flint Dibble studies people, animals and environment across the ancient Greek world, discussing his publication on the consumption and management of animals at Azoria on Crete and what the archaeological evidence says about food in ancient Greece.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The notion of the barbaroi in Greek culture, the origins of slavery and the philosophical theories for it, and the legal status, roles and importance of slaves and metics in the Athenian economy.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Amy Pistone, Visiting Professor of Classics at Notre Dame, on ancient Greek drinking culture with a side of sports, or how college students can relate to the ancient Greeks.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

How Greeks traveled by land and sea, the port of Piraeus, silver mining at Thorikos and the striking of coins, farming and selling in the agora, Athenian workshops, and elite disdain for the merchant and manufacturing classes.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Conventional wisdom divides sex workers in ancient Greece into enslaved pornai and elite hetaerae, a drastic oversimplification; life varied at every level of the profession, including those who fit neither category.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Sarah F. Derbew

Sarah F. Derbew's Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2022) is called the first concerted treatment of black skin color in Greek literature and visual culture, covering Egyptians, Aithiopians and Indians.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Basic designs of Greek homes and the furniture, decoration and lighting that might be found in them, the gynakeion and andron, the pitfalls and benefits of urban Athens, Hestia in the oikos, and Athenian clothing and hairstyles.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

Sparta's compulsory, state sponsored education raised children of both sexes as future warriors and mothers, set against Athenian rivals, and the episode addresses pederasty, misogyny and child abuse within that system directly.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Medical and philosophical writing on women's bodies, particularly the Hippokratic Corpus and Aristotle, on menstruation, pregnancy and the wandering womb, methods of conception, contraception, abortion and exposure, divorce procedure, and the punishment of adulterers.

Part of The Ancients

With Paul Cartledge

From the Spartan king Menelaus and his wife Helen of Troy to adolescent same-sex relationships, Tristan and Professor Paul Cartledge look at sex and courtship in Sparta, and tackling infertility in the ancient world.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Weslie Lechner

The hosts follow up an earlier episode on Vestal Virgins by turning to Ancient Greek prostitutes Phryne, Lamia and Aspasia, women who the episode says ascended to legend through the world's oldest profession, joined by guest Weslie Lechner.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

Jeff, Lise and Brian continue their close read series on Aristotle's Politics, tackling his discussion of slavery, which raises questions about nature, law and virtue in this fourth installment.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Andromache Karanika

Andromache Karanika, Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine, traces wedding poetics through the Iliad's Teikhoskopeia scene and Sappho 44, on the wedding of Hector and Andromache.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Athenian symposia were all-male drinking parties, the playground and hunting ground of the city's elite courtesans, the hetaerae, where guests drank, flirted and debated with the philosophers, and they had their dangers too.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

Brian, Lise and Jeff dig deeper into Aristotle's Politics in part 3 of their discussion, asking what slavery is and what slavery has to do with the household or the state.

Part of The Ancients

With Owen Rees

Man's best friend was at people's sides in Ancient Greece too; Tristan and Dr Owen Rees discuss dog names, their function in Greek religion, and their possible deployment on the battlefield.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

With Stephen Cerone

A personal journey into ancient cooking explores foods and ingredients of Ancient Greece and Rome from 2500 years ago, made together with guest and co-host Stephen Cerone, a keen baker and sourdough enthusiast.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Marie-Louise Nosch

Marie-Louise Nosch, Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Copenhagen and former director of its Centre for Textile Research, discusses weaving scenes in Homer and Hesiod's account of Pandora's creation.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Michael Leese

Michael Leese's Making Money in Ancient Athens (U Michigan Press, 2021) reads inscriptions and lawsuit speeches to argue Athenians practiced rational, profit-driven economic strategies.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

Socrates and Alcibiades reappear at a party where several characters take turns praising Eros, often called in English the god of love, and the conversation moves from sexual desire to politics, law and philosophy.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Forty-nine minutes at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where curator Phoebe Segal gives a one-on-one tour of the new Daily Life in Ancient Greece exhibit.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

Ancient Spartan society, how it functioned and the role of slavery and the Helots, the origin myths of Sparta, and the infamous black broth soup that supposedly only Spartans loved, how it was made and whether it was tasty.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

What different subgroups of Greeks ate each day, early cookbook authors, the economic, religious and medicinal role of wine, the Anthesteria that opened the previous autumn's wine jars, and the symposion with its discussion, music, flirting and kottabos.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Poet and translator Alicia Stallings unpacks Hesiod's Works and Days, home of the Prometheus and Pandora myths, as a guide to living justly in a harsh world.

Part of The Ancients

With Alastair Blanshard

Frederick the Great, Marie Antoinette and Oscar Wilde have all been discussed in terms of Ancient Greek ideas of homosexual love; Alastair Blanshard, Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics at the University of Queensland, discusses the concept's ripples through history.

Part of The Ancients

With James Lloyd

Without recordings, and with notation and instruments long forgotten, James Lloyd tells Tristan the reaction to music in Ancient Greece may sometimes have resembled the reaction to rock in the 20th-century United States, and to drill in the UK today.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Alexander Jones

Professor Alexander Jones of New York University explains how varied and plentiful Greek calendars were in this region of the Mediterranean in the first millennium BCE.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

Food markets of Oxyrhynchos, the city of the sharp-nosed fish, in Hellenistic Egypt: what they sold, who could trade and where in the city they stood, based on the book of Peter Parsons.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

With Flint Dibble

Part 2 with archaeologist Dr Flint Dibble goes deeper into the ancient Athenian world: butchering, sacrificial feasts set against home cooking, bones from the Agora, and eating habits up to Athens's hegemony in the Delian League.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

Archestratus, a Sicilian Greek from Gela or Syracuse, circumnavigated the ancient Mediterranean chasing his hunger, and what survives of his lost poem Hydipatheia comes only through Athenaeus's Deipnosophistai, composed around AD 200.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

The Spartiates, or Homoioi, are examined as a ruling class funded by helot labour, bound to land tenure and communal dining halls, with the very word Homoioi better read as similars, not strict equals.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

Medical writers from Hippocrates to Galen, Oreibasius and Haly Abbas in Islamic Persia all linked diet to a healthy body, carrying the ancient Greek theory of humours forward into medieval European medical schools.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

Dan Snow's documentary on Libya and the ancient city of Cyrene inspired a fresh look at silphium, its relationship with asafoetida in Indian cuisine, and what ancient authors say it tasted like.

Part of Epic Greek History · From Mycenaean kings through the Persian invasions, one full and one short episode a month

Part of HistoryExtra podcast

With Paul Cartledge

Paul Cartledge comments on the practice of slavery in ancient Greece, one of three topics in this episode.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

Spartan society's castes are surveyed: the Spartiate ruler class, the Helot slave class forming a massive share of the population, and the Perioikoi, dwellers around who worked as blacksmiths and fought as Hoplites.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

Part two follows Archestratus on an imaginary trip across the Black and Aegean seas some 2330 years ago, the Daedalus of tasty dishes, whose Gastrology takes that title according to Lycophron in his books on comedy.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

Silphium, valuable to ancient Greeks and Romans alike, connects to the prosperous ancient Greek colony of Cyrene in modern Libya, and the long-standing question of whether the plant truly went extinct.

Part of In Our Time

A large body of work originally attributed to Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus, cannot have been written by a single author.

Part of In Our Time · The BBC seminar format; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of The Ancient Philosophy Podcast · A philosophy professor on ancient thought worldwide; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of The Ancients

With Michael Scott

The Ancient Greek symposium extended beyond simple after-dinner drinking to wine, recline and philosophy among Hellenic men; Tristan and Michael Scott, Professor of Classics, explore this soiree of booze, babes and slaves, exclusively male aside from the occasional courtesan.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Tristan Hughes, Michael Scott

Professor Michael Scott joins Tristan to describe the Ancient Greek symposium, a drinking party led by a symposiarch, male aside from the occasional courtesan, where Hellenic men would wine, recline and philosophise.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

The history of sesame seeds and their use in ancient cuisines, especially Greek, from their source in India through Mesopotamia and Egypt to ancient Greek desserts and China, with halva made of tahini and honey.

Part of The Delicious Legacy · Food history from a Greek gourmand; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of The Delicious Legacy

Oxyrhynchus, a Hellenistic-Egyptian city at the turn from Greek to Roman influence, gave up 280 boxes of papyri after a low mound was dug on 11 January 1897, opening a window onto Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

Ancient Classical Greece drank Lemnio, Savvatiano, Assyrtiko, Thassian and Chian wines at symposiums, opening the agape festivity with a libation poured onto the sacred family hearth before any guest raised a cup.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Women in the Hellenistic Age, part one: the perils of childbirth, female poets and scholars, and the raunchier mimes of Herodas, as evidence for how women lived and died in a new cosmopolitan world.

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Donni Wang

Part of The Delicious Legacy

With Flint Dibble

Archaeologist Dr Flint Dibble researches the foodways of ancient Greece, explaining how animal bones once discarded now inform isotope analysis revealing how daily ancient diets varied from season to season.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

With Mariana Kavroulaki

An interview with Greek archaeologist and food historian Mariana Kavroulaki on the food and foodways of Classical Greece, with beer in ancient Greece, Franchthi Cave and garos among the topics of the conversation.

Part of The Ancients

With Thomas Ntinas

Tristan is joined by Thomas Ntinas, host of The Delicious Legacy, to discuss how much Mediterranean food has changed over two millennia, with mouth-watering home-made recreations of what people would have eaten, and the importance of honey and wine.

Part of Ancient History Hound

The first of three episodes on Sparta examines the agoge, the syssitia and the Krypteia, asking what the sources say and how these differ from the ways they are sometimes depicted.

Part of Ancient History Hound

The helots of Sparta were indispensable to the Spartan state, and this episode asks what they did, how Sparta had acquired them and how their population was controlled.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Book II builds on Book I's link of virtue and happiness, asking how children are educated toward virtue and instilled with a sense of it, centring on judging the pleasure and pain that motivate behaviour.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Book III opens with natural cataclysms and the emergence of early human communities, and turns to concord between the extremes of pain and pleasure and reason, education, proportion and a common sense of virtue among citizens.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Book IV has the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus discuss virtuous leadership for the new colony's establishment, where the Athenian holds God, defined in Book X as Reason and the universe's origin, to be the measure of all.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The Statesman's Visitor from Elea likens statesmen to herdsmen directing followers' souls, discussed alongside Robert Kennedy's 1966 Ripple of Hope speech and whether any natural separation exists between ruler and ruled.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Pod begins its series on the Laws with Book X's cosmology, where the unnamed Athenian argues the immaterial soul is older than physical matter and therefore the primary cause of all motion.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The final meeting on the Laws covers Book XII's Nocturnal Council, guarding the virtue of Magnesia's citizens and leaders, and revisits Book X's claim that Reason sits at the very centre of the universe.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Wrongly convicted and facing execution in two days, Socrates tells Crito in Plato's dialogue that it is not right to take the laws into his own hands after benefiting from Athenian society for seventy years.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Book VI has the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus design a mixed democratic and monarchical government for Magnesia, with every citizen choosing the Guardians of the Laws through rigorous vetting while Crete oversees the new colony's founding.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

In Book IX the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus address administering justice for evil acts in Crete's new colony, proposing reasoned preambles to laws and a doctor's treatment by education, with a death penalty warranted in certain cases.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Socrates prescribes number and calculation as the philosopher's first order of knowledge in the Republic, followed by geometry and astronomy, distinguishing the philosopher's reason from the Guardians' restricted, visible knowledge.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Book I of the Laws argues for a constitution cultivating virtue in a new colony's citizens, unlike Crete's war-focussed constitution and the laws of Sparta, building on Book X's presentation of the universe's soul and Reason.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Passages 412(b) to 445(e) of the Republic cover Socrates, Adeimantus and Glaucon on the guardians and auxiliaries who protect the city, then the four virtues sought first in the city and then in the soul.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Season two opens on the Republic's allegory of the cave, simile of the sun, nature of the good and divided line at 502(d) to 521(b), recalling the question raised in the Theaetetus, whether man is the measure of all.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Book VII of the Laws has the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus discuss raising Magnesia's children, from the harmony of laws with customs to how appreciating number and shape can reveal collective potential in the universe.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Socrates's claim that cities have no rest from evils until philosophers rule is examined alongside the guardians' founding myth, or noble lie, and how the soul finds knowledge of an eternal form like beauty.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Book II of the Republic has Glaucon challenge Socrates to define justice without reference to outcomes, building a theoretical city and asking whether the Ring of Gyges would tempt anyone toward injustice.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The final session on the Republic examines Socrates's proof of the soul's immortality and the myth of Er, asking whether justice originates in the soul before the city and whether time is cyclic.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The second half of Book I has the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus conclude that mastering pain and pleasure through self control and courage equips Magnesia's citizens both to govern and be governed.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

The second half of Book X sets out reason as the primary cause of the universe, and debates the death penalty for a citizen who, after every attempt at explanation and reconciliation, refuses to acknowledge reason as a god.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Book XII of the Laws has the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus propose scrutineers who review but do not legislate, to oversee Magnesia's Guardians of the Laws and guard the colony against foreign influence.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Book XI shifts tone from Book X to the Athenian's thirty-three laws on trade and property in Magnesia, including a harsh penalty letting any passer-by over thirty beat a seller who quotes two prices in a day.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

In Plato's Statesman the Visitor from Elea equates ruling with fabric-weaving, measuring the fabric to its mean between extremes, discussed alongside a legislator's vow that hate will lose.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

In Book V the unnamed Athenian alone addresses Clinias and Megillus on the soul as master over the body, moderating pains and pleasures, and ends with the proposal that 5,040 is the ideal population of a community.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Concluding the Statesman, the Visitor from Elea describes a ruler who harmonizes courage and temperance, and the episode asks whether such a ruler should be constrained by older laws, alongside Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

With Michael Fitzpatrick

James Myers and Michael Fitzpatrick relate the Republic, the Laws, the Statesman and the Meno to leadership, education, wealth and social cohesion in a technologically powered world of 8 billion people, seeking a path to the common good.

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Jennifer T. Roberts

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

With Michael Fitzpatrick

Michael Fitzpatrick and the group conclude discussing Plato's Seventh Letter, where Plato never published his opinions so a soul's own thoughts must be born afresh, leaving the Meno's question of whether virtue can be taught unanswered.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Letters VI and VIII are read as a trilogy with Letter VII, where a good king is the servant of the laws and justice, and Letter VI calls on the Academy to befriend a king who respects reason.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski surveys Greek history from prehistory through the Classical period, with an overview of Greek culture and a focus on Classical Athens.

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Wycherley's study of the agora shows it as more than a marketplace, a hub for politics and athletics, while nearly every Greek polis had religious shrines, gymnasia and stadiums.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski traces the evolution of Greek national identity from Herodotus and the Greco-Persian War through Hellenism, informed by the Trojan War myths retold by Apollodorus.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's best known Seventh Letter recounts his experience teaching the tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse and the philosophically minded Dion, with Plato succeeding with Dion and failing with Dionysius, a warning against rulers who do not practise philosophy.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

With Doug Metzger

Doug Metzger of the Literature and History podcast argues that Aeschylus turned a bloody family feud into a new founding myth for Athenian democracy across seventy-five minutes.

Part of Our Fake History

Some ancient sources claim the Spartans were incorruptible, never took bribes and equally divided land among the elite Spartiates, while the city's most famous poet may not even have been from Sparta.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know · Three teachers on the classical world; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Ad Navseam

The episode credits the grid-pattern city, still visible in modern street plans, to Hippodamus of Miletus, who spread his design for the Greek city across Attica, Italy and Rhodes.

Part of The Ancients

With Paul Cartledge

Was Athens truly the birthplace of democracy, and who gave a voice to the people? Tristan chats to Professor Paul Cartledge about the radical statesman Cleisthenes and ancient forms of political exclusion and ostracism.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas · Johanna Hanink talks with fellow Hellenists about their latest work

With John Ma

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

With Emily Greenwood

Yale classicist Emily Greenwood on Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War, a study of the struggle between democracy and oligarchy whose popularity has surged amid recent polarization.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Clare Rowan, M.E. Gkikaki

Clare Rowan, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and principal investigator on the ERC-funded project Token Communities of the Ancient Mediterranean, and M.E. Gkikaki discuss monetiform tokens in Greek antiquity, via Aristophanes' Ekklesiazousai.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic explore what 'demos' really meant to the Athenians and why women were such a crucial part of Athenian democracy, asking whether it really was the precursor to modern democracy or something entirely different.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Scott Lawin Arcenas

Scott Lawin Arcenas, associate professor of history and classics at the University of Montana, examines political violence in Greek city-states between 500 and 301 BCE, the stasis his new book quantifies and qualifies.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified · Conversations that take in Greece and the wider ancient world

Part of The Ancients

With Andrew Bayliss

Considered one of Athens' biggest rivals, Sparta has longstanding mythological origins, from rumoured descendants of Heracles to the mythical lawmaker Lycurgus; Tristan and Dr Andrew Bayliss ask what archaeological evidence exists for how, and by whom, Sparta was founded.

Part of History Unplugged Podcast

With Terry Bourcious

For almost two centuries, Athens filled most public offices and the Council of 500 by lottery, a reform from 508 BC meant to curb aristocratic control; guest Terry Bourcious argues modern democracies should adopt this sortition model too.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Princeton's Melissa Lane, author of The Birth of Politics, examines stasis, Greek for political polarization, its causes, and the solutions ancient thinkers offered to prevent it.

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Demetra Kasimis

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Classicist Edith Hall traces how Athenian comic theater, invented after the city's democratic revolution, attacked prominent individuals who were usually in the audience and humiliated politicians like Pericles and Cleon.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Paul Cartledge

Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus at Cambridge and author of 'Democracy: A Life', discusses democracy, the concept the episode calls the foundation stone of political culture, drawn from the back catalogue.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

This 2006 short IMAX documentary from MacGillivray Freeman Films is set across the Greek Isles and covers the Minoan eruption, the Parthenon, philosophy, theatre, democracy and the Olympics.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Peter Liddel

Peter Liddel discusses the importance of Attic Inscriptions to understanding this period of ancient Greek history, in conversation with James Renshaw for the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

With Matt Simonton

Second half of the conversation with Matt Simonton, author of Classical Greek Oligarchy, on the institutions ancient oligarchic regimes used to hold onto power.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

With Matt Simonton

Arizona State historian Matt Simonton, whose Classical Greek Oligarchy won the 2018 Runciman Award, explains how oligarchy first arose as a form of government.

Part of The Ancients · History Hit's interview show; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Owen Rees

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Elke Close of HellenisticHistory.com on the Achaean and Aetolian Leagues, federal states through which several poleis presented a unified front against the Successor dynasties, seen through writers like Polybius.

Part of Chronicles of Ancient Greece

The episode turns to a long discussion of Athens, following a short one on Sparta, with Poseidon taking it personally.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

James Myers examines eight of Plato's works on how word meanings shape constitutions and justice, from Socrates's execution over two words to a Supreme Court dispute now hanging on three words evolved since 1789.

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Theodore Papakostas

Part of Kings and Generals

Beyond the polis, this covers the Leagues and Federations of the Ancient Greek world and how great states like Athens, Sparta, Macedon and Thebes interacted within them to form hegemonies.

Part of Ad Navseam

Lord Elgin removed the Parthenon marbles from Athens to his Scottish mansion, and they still sit in the British Museum in London while Lord Byron somehow avoids the same blame.

Part of The Ancients

With David Braund

Tristan Hughes and Dr David Braund explore the Amazons in ancient Greek culture through myths involving Heracles, Achilles and Theseus, presenting these warrior women as city founders, astronomers and festival creators far beyond their popular image.

Part of Echoes of History · History Hit for Assassin's Creed; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Holly Nielsen, Benjamin Hall

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Fifth-century BC innovation in statuary in the round, stelai and architectural relief, from the Kritios Boy and Antenor's Tyrannicides to the Charioteer of Delphi, Myron's Diskobolos, the Doryphoros of Polykleitos and the Stele of Hegeso.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Seth Estrin

Seth Estrin, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, discusses Grief Made Marble, his emotion-based reading of Classical Athenian funerary sculpture, drawing on Euripides' tragedy Alcestis.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast · The three centuries between Alexander and Actium

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Fifth-century BC painting on pottery, walls and wooden panels: vases by the Berlin Painter, Onesimos and the Niobid Painter, wall paintings by Polygnotos, Parrhasios and Zeuxis, the Tomb of the Diver, and the Pitsa Panels.

Part of The Ancients

With Mary Beard, Charlotte Higgins

Professor Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins join Tristan Hughes to ask how the Romans borrowed, adapted and sometimes rivalled Greek culture, and what they admired and rejected, from temples and theatre to politics and philosophy.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The construction, history and significance of the Parthenon, Propylaia, Temple of Athena Nike and Erechtheion, buildings that glorified Athens and served as political propaganda, and that many later considered the symbol of Classical Greece.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

With Osmund Bopearachchi

Osmund Bopearachchi on Gandharan art, credited with the first known depictions of the Buddha in human form, whose artists borrowed Hellenistic designs and mythological figures to tell the Buddha's story.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Verity Platt

Verity Platt, professor of Classics and History of Art at Cornell University, discusses her new book Epistemic Impressions, tracing ancient image-making through Herodotus's account of the seal of Polycrates and Pliny's Natural History.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Sam Holzman

Sam Holzman, assistant professor at Princeton's Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, discusses bilingual Ionic column capitals in his book Retrospective Columns, tracing the style through Vitruvius's de Architectura and the architectural drawings in Stuart and Revett's Antiquities of Athens.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Olympia Bobou

Dr Olympia Bobou, a classical archaeologist specializing in Greek sculpture at Aarhus University, discusses how sculpture changed and developed across ancient Greece over time.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Fifth-century BC temple building outside Attika: Aphaia at Aigina, Zeus at Olympia, Hera II at Poseidonia, Victory at Himera, the Valley of the Temples at Akragas, the unfinished temple at Segesta, and Apollo at Bassai.

Part of The Ancients

With Maeve McHugh

Located on the Acropolis in Athens, the Parthenon is the unofficial 8th wonder of the ancient world; Tristan and Dr Maeve McHugh explore the mastermind behind its construction and the iconography of the building.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd traces the black and red figure vases made in Athens between the seventh and fourth centuries BC and exported across the Greek world, reading their scenes of warfare and women for evidence of daily life.

Part of The Greek Myth Files

R. Scott Smith surveys the Gorgons and their mortal member Medousa through early poetic and artistic depictions, discussing Ovid's telling of the story and an interview with UNH professor Paul Robertson.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Nick Malkoutzis, Georgia Nakou

Greek journalists Nick Malkoutzis and Georgia Nakou explain the decades-long debate over the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, in the British Museum and campaigned for by Greece since the 1980s.

Part of HistoryExtra podcast

With Caroline Vout

Caroline Vout tells Elinor Evans that behind the marble busts and sculptures imagined for ancient Greek and Roman bodies lies the flesh and blood reality of pleasure, pain and flaws in life and death across ancient Greece and Rome.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Steve Kershaw

Classical historian Steve Kershaw joins Dan to explore how the Acropolis, with its festivals honouring Athena and the Parthenon, became a symbol of democracy, power and devotion, and how Lord Elgin sent huge chunks to Britain.

Part of The Greek Myth Files · A podcast on all things Greek myth, scripted and narrated

Part of Not another Greek History podcast!

The episode reads real 1-star TripAdvisor reviews of the Parthenon and explains how accurate they are, asking whether the Acropolis is full of old people and whether this 'ugly' place is really a tourist trap.

Part of Not another Greek History podcast!

The first episode on looted Greek antiquities, spanning antiquity to modern times, covers the Parthenon, Athena's statues on the Acropolis, the Temple of Zeus, Delphi, Delos, and the 'St. Mark's horses' in Venice.

Part of Garner's Greek Mythology

Greek pottery carries unexpected themes about how gods and heroes are depicted, including the strange effigies of the god Hermes, presented here unlike any Hermes met before.

Part of Not another Greek History podcast!

The final episode on looted Greek antiquities describes helping repatriate a Greek artifact, how Americans looted Cyprus, enchanted Thessalonica statues, and the smuggling network of museums and dealers involved.

Part of Not another Greek History podcast!

The second episode on looted Greek antiquities, spanning antiquity to modern times, covers the Parthenon and Elgin, the 'Venus de Milo,' Nike of Samothrace, the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina, and the Temple of Apollo Epicurius, Greece's first UNESCO site.

Part of Garner's Greek Mythology

The Muses, nine goddesses and daughters of Zeus, lit the fire behind every masterpiece 3,000 years ago and inspired artists and scientists alike; Pythagoras, the father of mathematics, credited them with many of his innovations.

Part of Garner's Greek Mythology

Pygmalion, King of Cyprus, carved a statue of a beautiful woman and prayed to Aphrodite for a woman as beautiful, but instead the goddess breathed life into the statue itself, which stepped off its base and into his arms.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

In April 1900 Greek sponge divers find a 2,000 year old wreck off Antikythera, and a century of expeditions yields bronze statues, glassware, and the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's oldest surviving analog computer.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

The Gorgon Medusa's roots and evolution appear in the Bronze Age Minoan Snake Goddesses, the Polyphemus Amphora, the Nessos Amphora, and the Temple of Artemis at Corfu.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

Ancient poets Hesiod and Ovid supply the Gorgon Medusa's lineage and curse, and her children Pegasus and Chrysaor, alongside Perseus, Poseidon, Athena, Pindar and the Theogony.

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

Praxiteles sculpted Apollo Sauroktonos the Lizard Slayer, with later marble and bronze copies housed in the Vatican, the Louvre and elsewhere, its hidden meaning a struggle between Apollo and the serpent Python.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

With Vanessa Gorman

Prof. Vanessa Gorman on Miletus, which Herodotus called the ornament of Ionia: its Bronze Age connections, its Archaic affluence, its decline under Lydian and Persian rule, and her open-source Greek course.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

The second episode on the Landmark Herodotus covers the exploits of Cyrus the Great, with baby swapping, a kid kingdom, and blood wine offered to the dead.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

Thomas continues his series on the Landmark Herodotus with the reign of Cambyses, a king remembered here for bad gifts, bad spies, and failing to draw a fancy bow.

Part of The Ancients · History Hit's interview show; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Mai Musié

Part of The Ancients

With Peter Toth

Legends of Alexander the Great were told almost immediately upon his death, often merging fact with fiction; Tristan interviews Dr Peter Toth, curator of the new British Library Exhibition on Alexander the Great, about the Alexander Romance culture.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

With Frank L. Holt

Numismatist Frank Lee Holt on how coins, the most enduring symbols of the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, can be used or misused to tell their story, and their role in preserving threatened heritage.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

With Angus Jacobson

PhD candidate Angus Jacobson on the Flight of Seleucus story told by Libanius of Antioch, how the Successors used or manipulated events in royal propaganda, and the challenge of separating fact from fiction.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Greek colonisation of Sicily goes on, with colonies founding their own, tyrants emerging as in the mother cities, and Carthage leading the opposition until it secures much of its trade interests by the end of the 6th century.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

The Hellenistic city from foundation to megalopolis, from Alexandria to Ai-Khanoum: royal building projects and military settlements, what makes a city Hellenistic, and its impact on disease and human health.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Sicily comes into the Greek periphery: trade returns, Greek cities found colonies to relieve overpopulation, and three indigenous cultures and the Phoenicians for the most part coexist peacefully during the 8th century BC.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

The ancient food traditions of Massalia, today Marseilles, where Greeks settled around 600 BCE with wine, grapes, olives and herbs, read through Archestratus and linked to Provençal sartanado and French bouillabaisse.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Anatolia before the Greeks: over 1 million years of habitation, Çatalhöyük and Göbekli Tepe questioning views of hunter-gatherers, the Hittites and their capitol Hattusa, and descendants of the Mycenaeans settling the west coast.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

After the Hittites vanish Anatolia fragments; Greek cities dot the western coast and form Ionia, fall under Croesus and the Lydians, and pass to Cyrus the Great, whose Persians become their new master.

Part of Ancient History Hound

The Greeks founded numerous colonies in southern Italy, and this episode explores how they interacted with local peoples and each other, featuring dancing animals and a drunken diplomatic incident.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

With Rachel Mairs

Rachel Mairs, author of The Hellenistic Far East, on Ai Khanoum, local Bactrian traditions and new identities, and how to reassess Greekness in a complex archaeological and epigraphical record.

Part of The Ancients

With Milinda Hoo

A theatre, gymnasium and colonnaded courtyard houses are hallmarks of an Ancient Greek city, found in Ai Khanum in present-day Afghanistan; Milinda Hoo takes Tristan through the structures, and part two asks whether it can count as a Greek city.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Judith Mossman

For the Macedon Depth Study, Judith Mossman revises Plutarch's account of the life of Alexander and others with James, in this bitesize episode for Ancient History A Level students.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

The anchor as the Seleucid dynastic seal, the omens and prophecies tying it to the destiny of Seleucus I, perhaps from the lost Seleucus Romance, and its use by later monarchies.

This American sword-and-sorcery series, filmed in New Zealand and created by Robert Tapert, follows Xena, played by Lucy Lawless, an infamous warrior seeking redemption alongside her companion Gabrielle, played by Renee O'Connor, and spun off from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

Filmed in New Zealand and based on the Greek hero Heracles, this American fantasy series starred Kevin Sorbo as Hercules and Michael Hurst as Iolaus for six seasons, becoming one of the world's highest-rated syndicated shows at that time.

Known as Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series, this show is a prequel to the 1997 film and the Greek myth, following Hercules as a teenager training to be a hero before the events of the film.

A prequel series to Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, this show aired on Fox Kids Network and starred Ryan Gosling in the title role across 50 episodes, inspired by the Greek myths of Heracles.

Created and written by brothers Charley and Vlas Parlapanides for Netflix, this American adult animated fantasy action series, formerly known as Gods & Heroes, premiered its first season on October 27, 2020.

This American animated series, based loosely on the Greek mythology character Heracles under his Roman name Hercules, debuted in 1963 and ran until 1966, coinciding with the sword-and-sandal film genre popular between 1958 and 1965.

This one-hour weekly mythology series premiered on the History Channel in 2009 and covers ancient Greek and Norse gods, monsters and heroes including Hades, Hercules, Medusa, Minotaur, Odysseus and Zeus.

This 1998-2000 anthology animated series retold popular Greek myths altered to suit younger audiences, co-produced by Nelvana Limited and Marathon Media and based on the book series Myth Men Guardians of the Legend by Laura Geringer.

Directed by Nick Willing and produced by Hallmark Entertainment, this 2000 American two-part television miniseries, also known as Jason and the Golden Fleece, is based on the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts.

Part of Literature and History

Heliodorus of Emesa, writing in the 3rd or 4th century CE, wrote the longest novel to survive from antiquity, an adventurous romance that reemerged into Europe in the 1500s.

Part of Gresham College Lectures

With Melissa Lane

Melissa Lane reads justice, dikē, in the poetry of the Athenian lawgiver Solon as a boundary stone, and shows how Greek societies that valued it also enforced slavery.

Part of Gresham College Lectures · Public lectures from London's Gresham College; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Melissa Lane

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Emma Pauly

Translator Emma Pauly discusses reshaping their translation of Bacchae around a transgender, non-binary reading of Dionysus.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Ellen Zachos

Plant expert Ellen Zachos discusses mythical plants like moly alongside the real hemlock that killed Socrates.

Part of Gresham College Lectures

With Melissa Lane

Melissa Lane poses Amartya Sen's question, equality of what, then examines isonomia, the ancient Greek principle of equal application of the law, arguing its laws need to be free of systematic bias to secure equal social freedom.

Roberto Rossellini directed this 1970 Spanish-Italian-French television film adapting several Plato dialogues, including The Apology, Euthyphro, Crito and Phaedo.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Maria Pretzler

Conversations: Maria Pretzler, a professor specializing in Pausanias, joins Liv to discuss the culture of the Peloponnese, what the late travel writer Pausanias reveals, and the mythology of ancient Sparta.

Desmond Davis directed this 1981 fantasy adventure film loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus, starring Harry Hamlin and Laurence Olivier, and featuring the final stop-motion effects work of Ray Harryhausen.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Christie Vogler

Christie Vogler continues discussing the ancient history of women's medicine, focused this time on Hippocratic medical theory.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Rebecca Futo Kennedy of Denison University on race, ethnicity, immigration and multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean, the misconceptions around them, and how early modern Fascism, Nationalism and White Supremacism shaped those misconceptions.

Part of Literature and History

In roughly the 160s CE, the Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata wrote A True Story, one of history's earliest surviving novels, with strong tinges of what the episode calls science fiction.

Part of Literature and History

The work of Sappho, Pindar and other remarkable Greek lyric poets raises questions about everything assumed about poetry, what it is and what it does.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Emily Hauser

Author Emily Hauser discusses her book on how women became recognized as poets across the long history of Greek literature.

Part of Literature and History

Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts, Books 1 and 2, follows Jason's journey to find the Golden Fleece and introduces the Greco-Egyptian writer, Apollonius of Rhodes.

Directed by Tarsem Singh and starring Henry Cavill, Stephen Dorff, Luke Evans and Mickey Rourke, this 2011 epic fantasy film is loosely based on the Greek myths of Theseus and the Minotaur, and the Titanomachy.

Louis Leterrier directed this 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans, very loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus, a co-production between the United States, United Kingdom and Australia starring Sam Worthington, Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Ryan Denson

Ryan Denson returns to discuss ancient and mythical sea monsters of the Mediterranean, drawing on his own book on the subject.

Directed by Pietro Francisci and starring Steve Reeves as the titular hero and Sylva Koscina as Princess Iole, this 1958 Italian sword-and-sandal film is based on the Hercules and the Quest for the Golden Fleece myths.

Directed by Silvio Amadio and starring Bob Mathias, this 1960 film is based on the Greek legend of Theseus, the Athenian hero said to have slain a minotaur on Minoan Crete around 1500 or 1450 BC.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · Liv Albert on Greek myths and the wider ancient Mediterranean, told casually and with sarcasm; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Andromache Karanika

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With Debbie Felton

Debbie Felton discusses serial killers in the ancient world, both mythological and otherwise, plus monsters and monstrosity.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

With Yvonne Korshak

Prof. Yvonne Korshak on her historical novel Pericles and Aspasia, set in Athens before the Peloponnesian War: weaving historical events into the narrative, and the interplay between history and fiction.

Don Chaffey directed this 1963 fantasy adventure film loosely based on Apollonius Rhodius's 3rd century BC epic The Argonautica, produced by Charles H. Schneer and distributed by Columbia Pictures, starring Todd Armstrong and Nancy Kovack.

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With Alexandra Sills

Conversations: Alexandra Sills, who studies spectacle, joins Liv to discuss gladiators in the Greek world, mythologizing gladiatorial games, and the evidence for women fighting in games.

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With Emily Hauser

Emily Hauser discusses how ancient and mythological women shared stories and built a collective memory of their own.

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With Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Dan-el Padilla Peralta discusses his book challenging the 'Founders of Western Civilization' myth built around the field of Classics.

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

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With Ellie Mackin Roberts

Conversations: Dr. Ellie Mackin Roberts returns to unpack Euripides' Alcestis, tragedy, and tragedy competitions, and theories on the how and why behind this strange play.

Directed by Vittorio Cottafavi, this 1961 film stars Reg Park in his film debut as Ercole/Hercules and was originally released in Super Technirama 70; retitled and re-edited, it reached the United States as Hercules and the Captive Women.

Directed by Giorgio Ferroni, this 1961 adventure-fantasy film is loosely based on Euripides' tragedy The Bacchae.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · Liv Albert on Greek myths and the wider ancient Mediterranean, told casually and with sarcasm; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Stephen Hodkinson

Jonathan Liebesman directed this 2012 sequel to Clash of the Titans, starring Sam Worthington as Perseus, who is called on a decade later to rescue his father Zeus and overthrow the imprisoned Titans.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Melissa Funke

Conversations: Dr. Melissa Funke joins Liv to discuss Phryne, the Hetarae who may or may not have stripped in an Athenian courtroom to prove her innocence, and endless Hetarae stories of ancient Athens.

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

Brett Ratner directed this 2014 film based on the limited series The Thracian Wars from Steve Moore's graphic novel Hercules, starring Dwayne Johnson as Hercules, a self-proclaimed demigod hired to lead the armies of Thrace against a warlord.

The sequel to Hercules (1958), this 1959 Italian-French film stars Steve Reeves and Sylva Koscina in a story about two warring brothers and Hercules' tribulations in the court of Queen Omphale, loosely based on Greek mythology.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · Liv Albert on Greek myths and the wider ancient Mediterranean, told casually and with sarcasm; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Ryan Denson

Part of Literature and History

In Apollonius' Jason and the Argonauts, Books 3 and 4, a mesmerizing Medea takes center stage at the Argonautica's end, dominating the epic's events.

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This crossover with Historical Homos discusses how Disney's Hercules reads as a queer coming-of-age story set against Thebes.

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With Julie Levy

Conversations: returning guest Julie Levy joins Liv to discuss the Thesmophoriazusae, what made Aristophanes tick, and why Euripides is, actually, perfect and amazing.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Alecto Hardwick

Alecto Hardwick discusses the women of Euripides, starting from Medea and expanding across his other tragedies.

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With Christie Vogler

This KAOS crossover with Christie Vogler discusses the show's depiction of Zeus, Hera, and Dionysus in Netflix's adaptation of Greek myth.

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With Christie Vogler

Christie Vogler traces the long and storied, utterly infuriating ancient history of women's medicine in the West.

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With Cosi Carnegie

Conversations: Cosi Carnegie joins Liv to discuss Charybdis as a gaping, hungry hole, fear of the monstrous woman, the threat of a sexual woman, and all the erotic pottery imaginable.

Part of The Ancient Philosophy Podcast · A philosophy professor on ancient thought worldwide; only the Greek episodes are indexed

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With Christie Vogler, Anastasia Pantazopoulou

This KAOS Takeover continues with Christie Vogler and Anastasia Pantazopoulou discussing the show's mortal characters, including its version of Orpheus.

Directed by Jonathan English and starring Tom Hardy, Tony Todd, Ingrid Pitt and Rutger Hauer, this 2006 British horror film, filmed in Luxembourg, is a loose retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

Directed by Mario Bava, this 1961 Italian sword-and-sandal film stars Reg Park as Hercules and Christopher Lee as his nemesis Lico, shot at Cinecittà on sets reused from Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis.

Produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, this 1997 animated musical comedy follows Hercules, a demigod raised among mortals, who must become a true hero while his uncle Hades plots his downfall.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Bettina Joy De Guzman

Conversations: musician and teacher Bettina Joy De Guzman joins Liv to discuss ancient instruments, music, and singing the songs of Greek myths and stories.