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Johanna Hanink

Johanna Hanink presents Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas. 44 episodes of it here, 40h in all, from 2024–2026.

Mostly on Greek Life, Thought and the Wider World, Minoans and Mycenaeans and Classical Athens and Sparta.

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1. 2026(Translating) the Scholia to the IliadLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas48m
2. 2026A New Anacreontic Poem on Stone, with Andrej PetrovicLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas47m
3. 2026A Social and Economic History of the Theater to 300 BCLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas1h
4. 2026Dream Interpretation, from Homer to AristotleLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas52m
5. 2026Luck (and Lucklessness) in Ancient Greek ThoughtLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas47m
6. 2026Migration and the Early Greek WorldLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas48m
7. 2026Reappraising the Choruses of Greek TragedyLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas55m
8. 2026Seal-Impressions (typoi) and Ancient Image MakingLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas51m
9. 2026Stasis: Political Violence in Classical GreeceLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas55m
10. 2026The Doloneia (Iliad Book 10)Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas48m
11. 2026The Influence of Plato's Timaeus: Beauty & CreationLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas50m
12. 2026Time and Ancient TextilesLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas52m
13. 2025"Bilingual" Ionic Column CapitalsLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas49m
14. 2025Athens, 403 BC: A Choral HistoryLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas57m
15. 2025Classical Athenian Funerary SculptureLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas59m
16. 2025Enchantment Technologies of Ancient Greek ReligionLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas52m
17. 2025Herodotus and the PresocraticsLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas1h
18. 2025Homer's Bronze Age WomenLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas54m
19. 2025Isis Worship in the Greek EastLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas1h
20. 2025Monsters in Classical MythLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas57m
21. 2025Myths of Kingship in Greece and the Near EastLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas51m
22. 2025Plato and AthensLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas57m
23. 2025SPECIAL: Classicism & Chronopolitics: Sasha-Mae Eccleston's EPIC EVENTSLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas1h
24. 2025Symbola (Monetiform Tokens)Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas58m
25. 2025The Ancient ShoreLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas54m
26. 2025The Art of Hellenistic QueenshipLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas55m
27. 2025The Cambridge Greek LexiconLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas54m
28. 2025The Life (and Times) of Diogenes 'the Cynic'Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas52m
29. 2025The Life of DemosthenesLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas52m
30. 2025The Small Cycladic Islands ProjectLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas54m
31. 2025The SophistsLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas56m
32. 2025Translating the Odyssey, with Daniel MendelsohnLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas1h
33. 2025Wedding Poetics in Early Greek Literature Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas56m
34. 2025Why Classicists Should Care about Byzantium, with Anthony KaldellisLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas1h
35. 2024(Imperial) Greek EpicLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas55m
36. 2024Alexander in the EastLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas50m
37. 2024Athenian Drama in Sicily (Ferdia Lennon, GLORIOUS EXPLOITS)Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas49m
38. 2024SPECIAL: Netflix's KAOS, with creator Charlie CovellLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas54m
39. 2024SPECIAL: Pasolini's THE RETURN, with Homerist Barbara GraziosiLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas47m
40. 2024Subject Communities of the Athenian EmpireLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas59m
41. 2024The Athenian Funeral OrationLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas1h
42. 2024The Longue Durée of the Greek PolisLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas1h
43. 2024The New Euripides PapyrusLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas1h
44. 2024Translating the Iliad, with Emily WilsonLesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas58m