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 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 in this text.
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 #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 #110: Paeonia and the Paeonians in the Historical and Archaeological Evidence with Goran Sanev
In this instalment of our “Unknown Peoples” Series, Goran Sanev, the Curator Adviser at the National Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia and PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University, takes us through the historical and archaeological evidence for the Paeonians, one of the oldest proto-historical communities in the Central Balkans.
Podcast Season 4, Episode 12: Hopeful Futures for Archaeological Practice with Yannis Hamilakis
In our final episode of season 4, we speak to Dr. Yannis Hamilakis, Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University.
Listen in, as Dr. Yannis Hamilakis discusses the politics of the past and the critical and ethical pathways forward for archaeology and teaching in the face of hypernationalism and genocide.
Blog Post #99: (After)Lives: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Identification at Corinth with Hannah Lee
In this week’s blog, we continue our Halloween themed content with a blog post by Hannah Lee, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Here, she delves into her osteological work on the Corinth ‘Hero’ and reflects on the Greek practice of hero worship.
Special Podcast Episode – Let’s Talk About Podcasts, Baby! with Liv Albert
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.
Blog Post #96: Graduate Student Feature with Benjamin Winnick
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.
Blog Post #95: Graduate Student Feature with Elizabeth Keyser
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.
