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.
Tag Archives: archaeology
Blog #94: Reconstructing Space, Place, and Power in Late Bronze Age Cyprus with Kevin Fisher
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.
Blog #92: The Libyans with Matthew McCarty
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.
Blog #91: The Punic Peoples of the Western Mediterranean with Thelma Beth Minney
In this instalment of our “Unknown Peoples” Series, we feature the research of Thelma Beth Minney, a PhD candidate in CLassical Archaeology at Stanford University. In this post, she takes us through her research on the shifting religious practices of Punic Peoples in the Western Mediterranean following their absorption into the Roman Empire.
Blog #90: The Illyrians with Danijel Džino
This week’s blog post by Danijel Džino introduces us to the Illyrians, an Indigenous Iron Age population that inhabited the eastern Adriatic and its surroundings, through a discussion of their politics, literary attestations and broader interactions with other Mediterranean communities.
Blog #89: Beyond Rome: The Indigenous People of Ancient Italy
In this week’s blog post, Claudia Paparella, a graduate student at the University of Toronto, 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.
Blog Post #85: Graduate Student Feature with Charlotte Spence
We’re back for another month of Halloween-related content here at Peopling the Past. This month we are feature blogs that deal with cursing in the Ancient World. Our first post in this series features the work of Charlotte Spence, a PhD Candidate at the University of Exeter, who’s work explore the ways in which ancient individuals conceived of the role of the dead and the gods in carrying out curses.
Blog Post #82: The Penestai of the Thessalians with Gino Canlas
In the latest instalment of our Unknown Peoples series, Dr. Gino Canlas introduces us to the Penestai, a people belonging to the serf class that lived in the Thessalian plains.
Blog Post #80: Graduate Student Feature with Matt Coleman
In this week’s blog post, we interview Matt Coleman, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Toronto, who takes us through his research on the “popular” reception of Hellenistic art in antiquity and the modern world.
Blog Post #79: Graduate Student Feature with Katerina Apokatanidis
This week we interview PhD student Katarina Apokatanidis from the University of Toronto. Katarina takes us through her research into the ever fascinating Orphic tablets – gold funerary tablets placed in Greek tombs to guide the soul to a good afterlife. These tablets give us tantalizing hints into afterlife beliefs that we are still trying to understand, and Katarina’s work aims to shed light on the lived experiences of these beliefs and practices.
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