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If you're the type of person who thinks about Rome once a day, this is the show for you. Hosted by award-winning ancient historian Alexandra Sills, each week we invite an expert guest to give us a crash course in a topic related to ancient Greece, Rome, or their neighbours. We'll have biographies of historical figures, introductions to ancient works of art and literature, blow-by-blow accounts of events that changed the world, and histories of some of the most special archaeological sites around the Mediterranean. Whether you already know a little or a lot, our experts know their subjects like the backs of their hands - they will bust myths, explain key concepts, and ensure we have the absolute essential facts we need to understand each topic. Think of us as the university alternative, bringing the teaching straight to you: a comprehensive curriculum, just without the campus! Find us online at www.ancienthistory101.org and see our socials at https://linktr.ee/ancienthistory101podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Unknown Host hosts Ancient History 101, a arts show with 17 episodes published.
Ben Paites, curator extraordinaire, is here to tell us exactly what happens behind the scenes to make museums work. How do museums acquire exhibits, who decides what gets displayed, and are museums always benignly ethica
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This week we have battles, oracles, and a towering pile of ostraka - it can only be a life of Themistocles - the man who owed democracy his career, but was convicted of treason and condemned to die by the very democrats
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Owen Rees of Xenophon fame returns to the show to explain why everything we think we know about ancient Sparta is an illusion. So what is the Spartan Mirage, and how in earth are we supposed to reveal the real picture of
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Alexandra strikes out on her on for a bonus episode this week, to celebrate 10,000 downloads! So as an extra treat, Alexandra chats about her favourite Greek tragedy, Euripides' Trojan Women. Often misunderstood, this pl
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This week we have one of the messiest, bloodiest years of the early Roman empire, in which becoming emperor was pretty much a death sentence... Our special guest of the week is Nathaniel Katz, here to find the meaning in
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This week we're tackling a heavy subject - slavery in the Roman world. Thank goodness we have such a lovely expert to guide us through it; Chance Bonar explains why the realities of Roman slavery are a little different t
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Get your oars ready, we're going sailing this week with Bret Devereaux, as he guides us through the First Punic War. To find Bret's amazing blog, head over to A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry . For the texts and reso
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The Aeneid - often mocked as a cheap Latin knock-off of Homer - is revealed in this episode to be a cleverly composed homage with its own purpose which, for a time, eclipsed Homer in popularity. Aven McMaster joins Alexa
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In today's episode, Alexandra is distracted by modern politics as Roel Konijnendijk talks us through the brutal regime of oligarchs installed in Athens by Sparta, known as the Thirty Tyrants, who murdered citizens in col
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In this episode of Ancient History 101, we're joined by Laura Jenkinson-Brown, the award-winning educator, illustrator and author, to talk about just how central the gods were in the narratives of epic poetry. Would the
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Dr Mike Beer returns to carry on his conversation with Alexandra about all things Augustus. In this second half of the discussion, we tackle Augustus' private life, his creation of his own image, his later career as Firs
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Before we tackle the emperors of Rome who were mad, bad, and dangerous to know, we need to first get to grips with the man who created the concept of Rome even having emperors: Augustus. The first in a two part discussio
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Forget Herodotus, forget Thucydides - Xenophon is a historian worth getting to know, and he did so much more than simply write histories... Join Owen Rees and I as we chat about a Greek man who turned his hand at just ab
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What does Classics mean to you? Cadillacs? Mozart? Dickens novels? or Ancient Greece and Rome? And why does the word CLASSIC seem to be used as a synonym for 'best', 'valuable' or 'timeless'? In this, our first interview
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The inaugural episode of Ancient History 101! Why not visit our website to learn more about our episodes, meet our contributors, and read about our ethos? You can also find all the links to our socials here , so make sur
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If you want to learn about the Ancient Mediterranean but don't know where to start, Ancient History 101 is the podcast for you. Expert guests guide us through a new topic every week with a back-to-basics approach that co
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If you want to learn about the Ancient Mediterranean but don't know where to start, Ancient History 101 is the podcast for you. Expert guests guide us through a new topic every week with a back-to-basics approach that co
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