In this week’s instalment of our Halloween Series on the “scary things” in the Odyssey, we hear from Drs. Mercedes Aguirre and Richard Buxton and their work on the Cyclops in the ancient and modern imaginary.
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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 ideology for digital entertainment.
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.
Blog #121: Healthy Living in Rome’s Green Spaces with Andrew Fox
We continue our Earth Month series with a blog post from Andrew Fox. Here, Andrew introduces us to the ways in which Roman writers contemplated the potential health benefits of integrating green spaces into the city of Rome.
Blog #120: Artificial Lighting Systems in Pompeian Gardens and Baths with Emily Lime
We continue our Earth Month series with a blog post from graduate student Emily Lime. Here, Emily discusses how Pompeians engineered light to address the aesthetic, social, and practical concerns of the home, in environments where darkness, smoke, and fire posed real challenges.
Blog #119: Unseen Hands: Recovering the Experiences of Garden Laborers in the Roman World with Kaja Tally-Schumacher
This week we kick off our Earth Month series with a blog post from Dr. Kaja Tally-Schumacher. Here, she takes us through her work on Roman gardens and the ways in which archaeologists can recover, reconstruct, and reflect on the presence, specialized knowledge, and experiences of laborers and other non-elite people in the Roman world.
Blog #118: Let’s Play Antiquity with Eduardo M. García-Molina
Our latest instalment of the blog, features the exciting pedagogical work of Eduardo García-Molina, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Here, he takes us through his course “The Ancient World in Video Games” to highlight the value of bringing gaming into the modern university classroom.
Blog #117: Teaching Ancient in a Digital Age: an NEH-Funded Institute for Ancient Mediterranean Studies Educators with Christine Johnston and Leigh Anne Lieberman
In this week’s blog post, Drs Christine Johnston and Leigh Anne Lieberman introduce us to their new NEH-funded project, “Teaching Ancient in a Digital Age.” This institute aims to equip Ancient Mediterranean studies faculty with essential digital skills and resources that take into account the evolving educational landscapes. Through virtual and in-person workshops, participants will develop lesson plans focused on data and digital literacy, which will enhance student engagement and prepare them to teach using the newest digital technologies applied through pedagogical best practices.
Blog #116: Disassembled Cyborgs: Interpreting Cretan Warriorhood and War Booty through Disability Theory with Jesse Obert
In this week’s blog post, Jesse Obert, Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of South Florida, takes us through his research on warriorhood in Crete and the ways in which we can think about war booty through the lens of disability theory.
Blog #113: Pannonians Abroad? New Evidence from a Roman Auxiliary Base in Central Turkey with Andrew L. Goldman
In this week’s blog post, Andrew L. Goldman takes us through his archaeological project at the ancient Roman auxiliary base at Gordion in central Anatolia, and the possibility that Pannonian soldiers were stationed at this site. Here, he highlights the role played by non-Romans in the military, while also using archaeological evidence to characterize auxiliary bases as multi-gendered and multi-generational spaces.
