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Podcast Season 3, Episode 12: How do you Solve a Problem like Cleopatra? : Shelley Haley and the last Egyptian Pharoah

On the last episode of our podcast season on ancient women, we are joined by Dr. Shelley Haley, the recently retired Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Listen in, as we untangle the image of Cleopatra as a seductive manipulator and challenge assumptions, misconceptions, and preconceived notions about…

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fragment representing half of a ceramic byzantine lamp with a greek. inscription partially visible
Mould-made Byzantine lamp fragment with stylized Greek letters. The six-line linear design on the channel represents a menorah and the Greek lettering is likely a reference to “light”. The lamp, part of the Hetherington Collection (#A1-158) of the Anthropology Museum at the University of Winnipeg, is currently being analyzed as part of the Lux Project.

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How do you solve a problem like Cleopatra?! Join us for the final season 3 episode of #PeoplingPodcast as we untangle the image of Cleopatra with Dr. Shelley Haley and challenge assumptions, misconceptions, and preconceived notions about one of the most famous women in antiquity: https://peoplingthepast.com/2024/03/19/podcast-season-3-episode-12-the-queens-gambits-rethinking-cleopatra-with-dr-shelley-haley/ On today’s #PeoplingBlog, we bring you another “new works” feature! Read on, as we interview Dr. Kevin Fisher of UBC on his recently published monograph, “Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus”, exploring the complex ways in which urban environments and monumental space shape human societies: Today's #PeoplingBlog is the first of a new work series, featuring our very own Melissa Funke (@drfunkesearringchallenge)! Here she explains the challenges in piecing together the fragmentary biographical tradition of the notorious ancient Greek sex worker, Phryne: We are back in 2024 with a new (sort of!) #PeoplingPodcast episode! Unfortunately, our audio file for this episode was too corrupted for use, so please read along as we present a transcript of our conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Carney on the nature of ancient warfare in Macedonia; and the ways in which women, both elite and non-elite, participated in and experienced these conflicts: Today’s #PeoplingBlog is the latest instalment of our Unknown Peoples Series! Read on, as Matthew McCarty takes us through his research on the ‘Libyans’, the indigenous peoples of the Maghreb — the vast territory stretching across North Africa from modern western Libya, through Tunisia and Algeria, to the Atlantic coast of Morocco, and from the northern Sahara to the Mediterranean coast: https://peoplingthepast.com/2023/11/24/blog-92-the-libyans-with-matthew-mccarty/ Today’s instalment of our #PeoplingBlog “Unknown Peoples” Series, also doubles as another grad student feature! Read on, as Thelma Beth Minney takes us through her research on the shifting religious practices of Punic Peoples in the Western Mediterranean following their absorption into the Roman Empire: Today’s #PeoplingBlog is another entry in our ongoing series focusing on “Unknown Peoples” of the ancient world. Read on as Danijel Džino introduces us to the Illyrians, an Indigenous Iron Age population that inhabited the eastern Adriatic and its surroundings: https://peoplingthepast.com/2023/11/10/blog-90-the-illyrians-with-danijel-dzino/ Today’s new #PeoplingBlog post is another exciting grad student feature! Read on, as Claudia Paparella takes us through her research on the Indigenous Peoples of ancient Italy through an analysis of the epigraphic and archaeological remains that they have left behind: https://peoplingthepast.com/2023/11/03/blog-89-beyond-rome-the-indigenous-people-of-ancient-italy-graduate-student-feature-with-claudia-paparella/ It’s #PeoplingBlog day! Read on for the final instalment of our Halloween series on curses, as graduate student Sophia Taborski discusses how curses teach us about intersecting identities, power structures, violence, and resistance in the Roman Empire:

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