Podcast
Ancient History Podcast
Hosted by Owain Williams · EN
The Ancient History podcast is the companion podcast of Ancient History Magazine, a publication dedicated to exploring the ancient world. Each episode will feature a new guest to discuss their research, a new book, or talk about ancient history, from Greece and Rome to Mesopotamia and China, and everything in between.
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Episodes
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AH22 - What is Ancient History? With Walter Scheidel
Oct 101:03:09Tap to summarizeIn this episode of the podcast, we speak to Walter Scheidel, the most cited Roman historian in an active faculty position, about the history of the study of ancient Greece and Rome, how this area of study came to mean 'ancient history', and what the future of the subject looks like.
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AH21 - YouTube with Erica Stevenson
Sep 100:50:47Tap to summarizeIn this episode of the podcast, we speak to Erica Stevenson, host of the YouTube channel MoAn Inc., about making Classics content for YouTube, the difference between Classics and Ancient History, and bringing the ancient world to new audiences.
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AH20 - Fulvia with Jane Draycott
Aug 1, 202501:09:01Tap to summarizeIn this episode we talk to Jane Draycott about Fulvia, the politics of the Roman Late Republic, and women's position within Late Republican Roman society, including marriage, childbirth, and informal political power.
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AH 19 - The House of the Satrap with Rhyne King
Jul 1, 202500:51:54Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we talk to Rhyne King about the satraps of the Achaemenid Empire, their responsibilities, how one became a satrap, and how the satrapal system contributed to the stability of the Achaemenid Empire.
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AH06 - After 1177 BC with Eric Cline
Jun 1, 2024Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we talk to Eric Cline about his new book After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations, the archaeology of the Early Iron Age, and how civilizations cope with collapse.
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AH01 - Phoenicians Among Others
Jan 1, 2024Tap to summarizeIn this episode we talk to Denise Demetriou about her new book Phoenicians Among Others (Oxford, 2023), which discusses the Phoenician immigrants who moved throughout the Mediterranean and how they adapted to and influenced their host communities.
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