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Blog Post #125: The Odyssey: Necromancy, Seers and the Underworld with Daniel Ogden
This week with kick off our Halloween month series, focusing on the Odyssey, with a post by Prof. Daniel Ogden, Professor of Ancient History in the University of Exeter. Here he explores the eleventh book of the Odyssey, known as the Nekyia or the ‘Book of the Dead’, and the role of ghosts and necromancy…
Blog #124: Graduate Student Feature with Kevin Wong: Online Gaming Culture and the “Epic” Ideologies of Digital Entertainment
Welcome back to another academic year over here at Peopling the Past. In our first blog post of the season, we highlight the work of Kevin Wong, a PhD student at Harvard University, whose work examines the history of online gaming in a bid to trace the cultural and commercial uptake of “epic” as an…
Blog #123: Lingua Vitae: Learning Latin in Virtual Reality by Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (with Special Thanks to Em Dang)
This week on the blog Lissa Crofton-Sleigh and Em Dang showcase their work on Lingua Vitae, a Latin language supplementary learning program encased within an historically authentic, ancient environment in virtual reality (VR).
Blog #122: Cultivating Pompeii: Urban Agriculture and Resilience, AD 62-79 with Jessica Venner
We continue our Earth Month series with a blog post from Dr. Jessica Venner. Here, Jessica discusses how evidence for urban agricultural practices in the gardens of Pompeii can provide us with insights into environmental resilience in the ancient world.
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© Archaeological Museum of Patras (inv. no. 54163812740)
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