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1h 39mThe Statue of Zeus at Olympia: Sweaty, Oily, and Judging You Ancient History FangirlPodcast

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.

1h 32mThe Temple of Artemis at Ephesus: Part 3 Ancient History FangirlPodcast

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.

1h 29mThe Colossus of Rhodes Ancient History FangirlPodcast

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

A giant statue supposed to depict the god Helios was once pictured straddling the harbor at Rhodes, holding aloft a torch, though some said it looked more like Alexander the Great, on an island full of pirates and smugglers.

1h 29mThe Mausoleum of Halicarnassus Ancient History FangirlPodcast

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Mausolus was once an extremely powerful man, yet today he is remembered mainly for the grandness of his tomb, commissioned by his wife, who was also his sister; his name in English now means all tombs.

1h 26mIliad: Book 18 | The Shield of Achilles Ascend - The Great Books PodcastPodcast

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan call Book 18 arguably the most philosophically dense book in the entire Iliad, discussing what the heart of Achilles teaches and how to interpret his shield.

1h 20mHow the Greeks Built Cities, Part II (Ad Navseam, Episode 189) Ad NavseamPodcast

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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.

1h 13mThey’ve Lost their Marbles!: Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures (Ad Navseam, Episode 70) Ad NavseamPodcast

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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.

1h 11mTomb it May Concern: Manolis Andronikos and Philip II at Vergina (Ad Navseam, Episode 172) Ad NavseamPodcast

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In 1977 Manolis Andronikos revealed the royal Macedonian tombs at Aigai, likely holding Philip II, a find framed here with David Grant's research and Demosthenes' Second Philippic.

1h 10mThe Amazons The AncientsPodcast

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.

1h 09mHistory of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Ancient History FangirlPodcast

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Perhaps first written down by Herodotus sometime in the 400s BC, the list of Seven Wonders did not really get popularized until the 200s, and this episode traces its history through the centuries since.

1h 08mClash of the Titans (1981): Perseus and Andromeda Greeced LightningPodcast

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.

1h 07mHow the Greeks Built Cities, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 188) Ad NavseamPodcast

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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.

1h 02m056 Classical Sculptures The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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.

1h 01mThe Lighthouse of Alexandria: Part 1 Ancient History FangirlPodcast

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, built under the Ptolemies in Egypt and known as the Pharos after its island, stood for about 1,600 years and came to represent light and learning, and darker meanings too.

1h 01mHadrian in Athens (With Liv Albert from Myths Baby!) Ancient History FangirlPodcast

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Liv Albert

Hadrian, the Roman emperor who commissioned Hadrian's Wall, combined an obsession with architecture and a passion for everything Greek to transform the city of Athens, as guest Liv Albert explains here.

59mClassical Athenian Funerary Sculpture Lesche: Ancient Greece, New IdeasPodcast

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.

58m078: The Indo-Greeks - Heracles, Menander, and the Buddha The Hellenistic Age PodcastPodcast

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Possible encounters between Buddhists and Greeks: the Milindapañha portrays Menander I as a Buddhist convert, Ashoka has his beliefs inscribed in Greek near Kandahar, and Gandharan sculptors turn Heracles into Heracles-Vajrapani.

58mThe Parthenon: Wonder of Athens The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

More than 2,000 years old, the Parthenon has served as temple, treasury, residence, church, mosque, gunpowder store and tourist site; Tristan Hughes joins Matt Lewis on the Echoes of History podcast to trace its long and fascinating story.

55mPaestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

With Tiziana D'Angelo, Kathryn Lomas

Paestum in southern Italy is home to some of the greatest ancient Greek temples; Dr Tiziana D'Angelo and Dr Kathryn Lomas guide Tristan Hughes from its Greek beginnings around 600 BC to takeover by Rome more than 300 years later.

55mWho Built The Parthenon? Echoes of HistoryPodcast

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.

55mThe Art of Hellenistic Queenship Lesche: Ancient Greece, New IdeasPodcast

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Patricia Kim

Patricia Kim, assistant professor at New York University, discusses her book on the art of Hellenistic queenship, tracing Pliny's account of Timochares' proposed floating statue of Arsinoe II.

54m057 Classical Paintings The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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.

54mPottery in Archaic & Classical Sparta w. Dr Adrien Delahaye Ithaca BoundPodcast

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Adrien Delahaye

Dr Adrien Delahaye of the French School at Athens discusses how pottery in ancient Sparta served storage, shipping, moral lessons and more, tracing its use through the Archaic and Classical periods.

53mHow Greece Shaped Rome with Mary Beard The AncientsPodcast

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.

53mThe Trojan War in Greek Art Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, WarPodcast

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd surveys vase painters of the 6th and 5th centuries BC, for whom the Trojan War was a very popular subject, including scenes that do not appear in any literary version of the myth.

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52m065 The Athenian Akropolis The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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.

51mInterview: Greco-Indian and Buddhist Art of Gandhara with Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi The Hellenistic Age PodcastPodcast

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.

51mSeal-Impressions (typoi) and Ancient Image Making Lesche: Ancient Greece, New IdeasPodcast

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.

51mThe Acropolis Programme Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, WarPodcast

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd examines the extravagant building programme on the Acropolis, most famously the Parthenon, begun after a gap of over 30 years following the Persian sack of 480 BC.

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50m060: Ptolemaic Egypt - A Traveler's Guide to Alexandria The Hellenistic Age PodcastPodcast

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

A sightseeing tour of Alexandria in its heyday under the Ptolemies, founded by Alexander in 332/331: its cosmopolitan population, art and architecture, scholars, and monuments like the Lighthouse of Pharos and the Library.

49m017 Archaic Art and Architecture The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Archaic innovation in the 7th and 6th centuries BC: Orientalizing, Korinthian, black-figure and red-figure vase painting, kouros and kore statuary and reliefs, and Doric and Ionic temples, treasuries and stoas.

49m"Bilingual" Ionic Column Capitals Lesche: Ancient Greece, New IdeasPodcast

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.

49mEvolution of Sculptures in Ancient Greece w. Dr Olympia Bobou Ithaca BoundPodcast

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.

48mGreek Island Architecture in the Bronze Age w. Dr Louise Hitchcock Ithaca BoundPodcast

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Louise Hitchcock

Dr Louise Hitchcock of the University of Melbourne discusses architecture on the Greek islands during the Bronze Age, including the islands of Crete and Santorini.

48mMyth, Art, War and Greek Sanctuaries Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, WarPodcast

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd surveys basic Greek sanctuary and temple design before focusing on the sanctuary of Zeus Olympios at Olympia, home to the Olympic games and lavish temples, treasuries and sculpture.

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47mThe 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Were Colossal, Prone to Destruction, and Not All May Have Existed History Unplugged PodcastPodcast

Part of History Unplugged Podcast

With Bettany Hughes

The Seven Wonders include the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse at Alexandria, alongside the pyramids of Giza and Babylon's Hanging Gardens; guest Bettany Hughes traveled to each site.

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46m058 Classical Temples The History of Ancient GreecePodcast

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.

46mHephaestus | It's All Greek to Me Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & FolklorePodcast

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

The episode credits Hephaestus for pottery and cool jewelry and so much more, covering how the Greeks did him dirty and how he is cooler than listeners knew.

46mAd Navseam Episode 15: I Can't Spare a Square! - Horror Vacui and the Dipylon Vase Ad NavseamPodcast

Part of Ad Navseam

The eighth-century BC Dipylon Vase has every inch of its surface covered, with a funeral scene dominating it, and the episode asks what drives a culture toward that fear of the empty space.

45mThe Parthenon The AncientsPodcast

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.

45mHera: Queen of the Gods The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

With Ellie Mackin Roberts

Hera, wife and sister of Zeus and goddess of marriage, royalty and women, is typically characterised as the jealous, vengeful wife despite archaeological evidence she was a pre-Greek deity pre-eminent to Zeus; Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts uncovers the truth.

45mMinoan Settlements in the Bronze Age w. Dr Louise Hitchcock Ithaca BoundPodcast

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Louise Hitchcock

Professor Louise Hitchcock of the University of Melbourne, in a fourth appearance, discusses Minoan palaces, villas and other residential buildings, in settlements advanced for the time, with labyrinthine architecture in the palatial buildings.

44mThe Lighthouse of Alexandria The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

With Michael Higgins

The last monument added to the Seven Wonders, the Lighthouse of Alexandria was one of the tallest man-made structures in ancient history and the only guiding beacon along 900km of Mediterranean coast; Michael Higgins traces its collapse 1500 years later.

43mVase Painting in Classical Athens Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, WarPodcast

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.

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42m#181 Bronze Age Palaikastro Crete w. Professor Carl Knappett Ithaca BoundPodcast

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Carl Knappett

Professor Carl Knappett of the University of Toronto discusses Palaikastro, a Minoan urban centre on Crete that lasted more than two millennia and may never have had a palatial building.

40mEpisode 27: Medousa and the Gorgons The Greek Myth FilesPodcast

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.

38mHellenistic Art in the Eastern Mediterranean w. Dr Jane Masséglia Ithaca BoundPodcast

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Jane Masséglia

Dr Jane Masséglia of the University of Leicester discusses how the Hellenistic period brought greater variety and diversity to art in the Mediterranean, and turns to the eastern part of the Basin.

37mThe Parthenon Marbles Dan Snow's History HitPodcast

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.

36mArtemis of Ephesus: The Great Mother Goddess The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

With Carla Ionescu

The Ephesian Artemis, the great mother goddess, is characterised in statues by a vest of bee hives, or breasts, or bull scrotums, depending on interpretation; Tristan and Dr Carla Ionescu discuss her connections to other divine female figures.

36mBlood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies HistoryExtra podcastPodcast

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.

36m02 - Islands and Marble Chronicles of Ancient GreecePodcast

Part of Chronicles of Ancient Greece

Episode two covers Cycladic culture across Santorini, Naxos and Mykonos in the Early Bronze Age, the marble figurines, a typical day around 3000 BC, and the downfall of Cycladic culture.

35m03 - When in doubt, build a labyrinth Chronicles of Ancient GreecePodcast

Part of Chronicles of Ancient Greece

The episode travels to Crete for the Minoan civilization, its palaces, frescoes, bull-leaping rituals and maritime trade, and the myth of the Minotaur and the labyrinth, asking what caused its downfall.

34m086: The Attalid Kingdom of Pergamon The Hellenistic Age PodcastPodcast

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

The Attalids of Pergamon, founded by the eunuch Philetaerus, are the first Greek monarchy outside the Successor Kingdoms and sponsor buildings and art celebrating them as defenders of Greek civilization against the Galatians.

34mOlympia: The Golden Age The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

With Judith Barringer

Among the Greek world's most important religious sites, the sanctuary at Olympia arguably entered its golden age in the 5th and 4th centuries BC; Professor Judy Barringer discusses surviving art from the Temple of Zeus to Nike of Paionios.

32mAi Khanum: A Greek City in Afghanistan? The AncientsPodcast

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.

31mThe City of Alexandria Dan Snow's History HitPodcast

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Islam Issa

Islam Issa, professor at Birmingham City University, explains how Alexandria went from a vision in Alexander the Great's mind to a global capital of knowledge, with its Lighthouse and Great Library.

31m003. Agamemnon's People Spartan History PodcastPodcast

Part of Spartan History Podcast

The episode describes the predominant Bronze Age Greek civilisation behind Agamemnon, a Mycenaean or Homeric Achaean, covering architecture, religious and burial practices before his doomed return from Troy.

30mMinoan Crete: Myth Versus Reality - Ancient Civilization DOCUMENTARY Kings and GeneralsDocumentary

Part of Kings and Generals

The Minoans of Crete build palaces at Knossos and Phaistos, dominate Aegean sea trade, inspire the myth of King Minos and the Labyrinth, and leave behind the mysteries of Linear A.

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29mThe Colossus of Rhodes The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

With Andrew Erskine

Erected in celebration after the people of Rhodes defended the island against Alexander the Great's successors in 304 BC, the 108ft statue of Helios stood for only 50 years; Tristan and Professor Andrew Erskine delve into its legacy.

29mThe Acropolis Dan Snow's History HitPodcast

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.

26mThe Rise of Olympia The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

With Judith Barringer

Ancient Olympia's importance stretched far beyond being the birthplace of its namesake sporting festival; Professor Judy Barringer shines a light on Olympia's early history, known about thanks to both an extraordinary amount of surviving archaeology and vital ancient literary accounts.

26mParthenon: mythbusting tourists' comments Not another Greek History podcast!Podcast

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.

25mLooting & smuggling of Greek antiquities 1/3 Not another Greek History podcast!Podcast

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.

25mEP 65: In Plain Sight Garner's Greek MythologyPodcast

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.

22mLooting & smuggling of Greek antiquities 3/3 Not another Greek History podcast!Podcast

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.

22mEP 13: Hephaistos - Every God Has His Day Garner's Greek MythologyPodcast

Part of Garner's Greek Mythology

Hephaistos, known to the Romans as Vulcan but to the ancient Greeks as the fire-god, turned his disability into a genius that wowed gods and men, his workshops full of robots called automatons, while Zeus called on him for thunderbolts.

21m12: The Parthenon Frieze, Part 3 Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

The Ionic frieze and its evolution from a decorative band to storyboard, then the many similarities between the Parthenon frieze and the Apadana reliefs, the Parthenon and Apadana, the Acropolis and Persepolis, and Athens and the Persian empire.

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19mLooting & smuggling of Greek antiquities 2/3 Not another Greek History podcast!Podcast

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.

19mEP 34: The Muses -- Where Art Begins Garner's Greek MythologyPodcast

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.

18mEP 41: Pygmalion — From Ivory to Flesh Garner's Greek MythologyPodcast

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.

16m6: A Classical Lekythos Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

A lekythos at the Art Institute of Chicago reflects the refined aesthetic of late Archaic and Classical Athens, alongside Exekias's black-figure amphora The Suicide of Ajax in Boulogne-sur-Mer.

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13m11: The Parthenon Frieze, Part 2 Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

Ionian Greek artists carried ideas between Persia and Greece; the transitional Harpy Tomb at Xanthos in Lycia sits alongside the Persian sites of Susa and Persepolis in tracing that exchange.

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12mAWA195 - What did Epaminondas look like? Ancient Warfare PodcastPodcast

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Christopher asks what Epaminondas of Thebes looked like, noting the strangeness that statues or busts of the general have not been found, and wondering whether that traces back to Alexander razing Thebes to the ground.

12m5: A Corinthian Pyxis Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

An Orientalizing period pyxis at the Art Institute of Chicago, with Near Eastern influence on developing Greek civilization, the strategic importance of Corinth, the Temple of Artemis at Corfu and the famed Lion's Gate of ancient Mycenae.

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11mBonus: The Antikythera Shipwreck The Hellenistic Age PodcastPodcast

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.

10m57: Medusa Up Close and Personal Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

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.

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10m26: Aphrodite of Knidos Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

The history, artistry and mythology of the Hellenistic Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles, through Hesiod and Pliny the Elder, the Colonna Venus, the Venus de' Medici, the Aphrodite Braschi and the misnomer of the Roman copy.

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10m16: Metropolitan Kouros Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

A marble youth from ancient Athens, the so-called Metropolitan Kouros of about 590 to 580 BC, shows how the early Greek kouros type borrowed directly from Egyptian statuary.

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10m10: The Parthenon Frieze, Part 1 Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

The origin, construction and sordid history of the Parthenon frieze, and a new imperial Athens that seeks to model herself, her Periclean Acropolis and the frieze after her once-formidable enemy, Persia.

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9m53: Medusa, Mythic Monster Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

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.

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9m45: Courtesans and Fish Plates Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

The fish plate, an often-overlooked curiosity among ancient Greek ceramics, and the 4th century BC appetite for fish that blossomed as a culture phenomenon, an art form and an obsession rich with sexual innuendos and double-meanings.

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8m48: Apollo Sauroktonos the Lizard Slayer Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

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.

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8m15: Origin of Greek Sculpture Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio)

Artwork from the Orientalizing and Archaic periods and the climate that gave rise to Greek sculpture, with Greece's contact with Egypt during the Saite Dynasty, the Greek colony of Naukratis and Egyptian and Near Eastern influences.

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1h 06mAncient Greek Architecture In Assassin's Creed Odyssey Echoes of HistoryPodcast

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

With Holly Nielsen, Benjamin Hall

56mInterview: Alexander the Great in Ancient Art & Literature w/ Meg Finlayson The Hellenistic Age PodcastPodcast

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

42mAdrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology" (Princeton UP, 2018) New Books in Ancient HistoryPodcast

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

With Adrienne Mayor

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38mClassical Greece Tides of HistoryPodcast

Part of Tides of History · Patrick Wyman's survey of the deep past; only the Greek episodes are indexed

28mEpisode 22: Giants in Greek Myth The Greek Myth FilesPodcast

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

19mHephaestus - Greek Mythology Myth Madness: A Mythology PodcastPodcast

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

15m3: A Donkey-headed Rhyton Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio) · Art and culture of the ancient Mediterranean; only the Greek episodes are indexed

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10m19: Ancient Olympics, Part 2 Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio) · Art and culture of the ancient Mediterranean; only the Greek episodes are indexed

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9m18: Ancient Olympics, Part 1, the Foundation Ancient Art Podcast (audio)Podcast

Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio) · Art and culture of the ancient Mediterranean; only the Greek episodes are indexed

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