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Hosted by Lexie Henning · history · EN
Join Lexie Henning as she chats with thought leaders in academia and the entertainment industry about how they got into their field, their current work, and how they connect with the past. Together they strive to connect modern societies to ancient worlds, explore antiquity via contemporary storytelling, and introduce a wider audience to the various ways history and mythology influences popular culture around the world. Tune in for intimate conversations with established top scholars, current postgrads, early career academics, and professionals in their respective fields as their wisdom and advice has never been more accessible! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ancient Office Hours is hosted by Lexie Henning. The show has published 181 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 152 - Dr. Glaire Anderson" (28 October 2026, 75 minutes), "Episode 151 - Dr. Tori Lee" (14 October 2026, 62 minutes), and "Episode 150 - Dr. Jana Matuszak" (30 September 2026, 83 minutes).
Ancient Office Hours publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 72 minutes across 181 episodes.
Booking probability for Ancient Office Hours is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Ancient Office Hours requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Ancient Office Hours's contact route on record: verified email.
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Lexie Henning hosts Ancient Office Hours, a history podcast with 181 episodes published.
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Dr. Glaire Anderson, a professor of Islamic art and architecture at the University of Edinburgh, recounts navigating limited program visibility, and training in architecture and urbanism while later integrating art...
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Dr. Tori Lee, an assistant professor of classics at Davidson College, discusses her favorite authors, especially Catullus, and her MA thesis on how English translators handle obscenity, including euphemism, omission...
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Dr. Jana Matuszak, a professor of Sumerology at the University of Chicago, joins Lexie to discuss the need to advocate for and provide accessible translations of ancient works, diving into Sumerian royal epics beyond...
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Dr. Ben Angell, a video game writer and current narrative lead at Capture Age, joins Lexie to discuss how he shifted focus from “face of battle” analysis to morale, psychology, and the Roman army’s social networks...
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Dr. Constantine Karathanasis, a professor of classics at Texas A&M, joins Lexie to discuss the role of national mythologies about antiquity, EU debates that separate “ancient” from “modern” Greece, developing an...
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In this second “Odysseason” panel, another group of classicists discuss Christopher Nolan’s new “Odyssey” film and the major changes made in his adaptation and what those changes enable, including: a traumatized...
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Ben Truska, an independent scholar and ancient Greek hoplite reenactor, joins Lexie to discuss shifting from history to a history/classics double major, citing favorite classes like Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Age...
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In this first “Odysseason” panel, a group of classics scholars discuss Christopher Nolan’s new “Odyssey” film as a modern reinterpretation rather than Homer, focusing on war trauma in Odysseus, parallels to Bronze Age...
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Dr. Catherine Bonesho, a professor of Early Judaism at UCLA, joins Lexie to discuss enjoying ancient languages as a grammar puzzle, identifying as a scholar of ancient Judaism in the Greek and Roman periods rather than...
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Returning guest, Dr. David Schenker, a professor of classics at Mizzou, returns for a 6-year catch up! At the time of this recording, he had just taught his final formal class after 35 years at the University of...
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Dr. Salima Ikram, a Distinguished Professor and the Amelia Peabody Chair in Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, joins Lexie to discuss her interests in preservation and mummification, revitalizing an...
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Dr. Jenn Finn, an Associate Professor and Chair of the Classical Studies Department at Loyola University Chicago, joins Lexie to discuss how coursework in Achaemenid Persian art and a Pompeii dig led her to learn...
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Dr. Petra Creamer, an Assyriologist, archaeologist, and professor of the Ancient Near East at Emory University, joins Lexie to discuss focusing on the Assyrian Empire to understand how non-elites experienced state...
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Dr. Jeffrey Newman, an Egyptologist and a research associate at UCLA's Pourdavoud Institute, joins Lexie to discuss his dissertation, which examines ritual performance and the origins of Egyptian bureaucracy and state...
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Dr. Curtis Dozier, an associate professor of Classics at Vassar College, joins Lexie to discuss entering classics through Latin in public high school, founding Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics to document how white...
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Jonathan Todd Ross, a voice actor and writer (the voice of Marik Ishtar & Yami Marik in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series), joins Lexie to discuss getting into acting and studying at NYU, stumbling into voice work via an...
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Dr. Roel Konijnendijk, the Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, at the University of Oxford, joins Lexie to examine psychological warfare and imperial brutality in antiquity, citing Persian punishment of...
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In this very special podcast episode, Lexie reconnects with Andrea Parkins, her influential history teacher who ignited her passion for history back in sixth grade. They reminisce about the memorable and engaging...
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Cricket Leigh, a therapist and accomplished voice-over artist (the voice of Mai on Avatar the Last Airbender), joins Lexie to discuss her path into performance, from growing up in Kalamazoo and doing local theater and...
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Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a Professor of Classics at Princeton (at the time of this recording), joins Lexie to discuss how growing up unhoused in New York City led him to reading in a shelter library and discovering...
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