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Herodotus on Thermopylae, with Chris Carey
Anastasia Bakogianni joins Professor Chris Carey at UCL’s Department of Greek and Latin to talk about his forthcoming commentary on Herodotus’ Book 7. A highpoint in Herodotus’ Histories, the subject...
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Roman Fragments, with Gesine Manuwald
Returning to UCL’s Department of Greek and Latin Anastasia Bakogianni talks with Professor Gesine Manuwald about her work on fragments from early Roman tragedy. Gesine tells us about some of the...
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The Literary Epigram, with Chris Carey and Maria Kanellou
Professor Chris Carey and Dr Maria Kanellou join CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni at UCL’s Department of Greek & Latin to talk about the literary epigram. They tell us about this ancient literary genre,...
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Plutarch and Tolstoy, with Alexei Zadorozhny
The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy was an avid reader of the Greek and Latin classics. In this interview, Dr Alexei Zadorozhny of the University of Liverpool tells us how and why Tolstoy drew on the work...
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Classics and Children’s Literature, with Helen Lovatt
This week on Classics Confidential, Dr Helen Lovatt from the University of Nottingham tells us about her exciting project on Classics and children’s literature. Why is it so important for us to study...
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Greek tragic heroines in later literature, with Mihoko Suzuki
What is the appeal of Greek tragic heroines for later writers, particularly women authors? During a visit to the University of Miami CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni met up with the Director of the Centre for...
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Scottish Neo-Latin, with Gesine Manuwald
CC’s Anastasia caught up with Professor Gesine Manuwald to talk about ‘Neo-Latin’. Gesine explains why Latin continued to be widely used in post-classical times and talks about a project she is...
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Exploring Byzantine History, with Maria Mavroudi
Maria Mavroudi is Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the interaction between Byzantium and the Arabic-speaking world, translations from...
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East Africa and the Classical Tradition
Welcome to the third episode in our new series of audio podcasts! We’re delighted to have teamed up with Carla Bocchetti from IFRA (French Institute for Research in Africa) in Nairobi to produce an...
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Roman Food
The topic of our fifth audio episode is ROMAN FOOD! This episode features (in order of appearance): Zena Kamash (Royal Holloway) on the Food for Thought project and food in the cults of Mithras and...
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