Real People in the Ancient World and the People who Study Them
On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Liv Albert, author and host of the Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! podcast.
Listen in, as Liv takes us through her podcasting journey, how she approaches myths, and the voices that she amplifies in the discussion of these myths.
In this week’s blog post, we interview Brea McCauley, a Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University, who details the practice of cultural finger amputation through numerous human societies throughout history around the globe.
In this week’s blog post, we interview Adrian Talotti Proestos, a Ph.D. candidate at McMaster University, who takes us through his research which uses network analysis to trace interactions between Oenotrian communities in southern Italy.
In this week’s blog post, we interview Benjamin Winnick, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of British Columbia. Ben takes as through his innovative research on ethnicity and ethnogenesis in ancient Greece, combining ancient texts and network theory.
In this week’s blog post, we interview Elizabeth Keyser, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, who guides us through a reassessment of popular and elite religious practices in the Mycenaean Late Bronze Age on mainland Greece.
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 her persona and reign.
In this week’s blog 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.
In this week’s blog PtP member Dr. Melissa Funke discusses her newly published book, which uncovers the life of a famous upscale sex worker, alongside considering the real lives of sex workers in the ancient Greek world.
In this instalment of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Elizabeth D. Carney is Professor of History and Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities, Emerita, at Clemson University. Read along, as Dr. Carney tells us all about her research 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.
In the latest instalment of our Unknown Peoples Series, Matthew McCarty (University of British Columbia) takes us through his research on the ‘Libyans’, the indigenous peoples of the Maghreb — that is, 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.
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