The Classics Podcast

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. Today's episodes focus on source materials, specifically Attic Inscriptions and we're joined by expert Prof. Peter Liddel of the University of Manchester who also works on the ⁠Attic Inscriptions Online⁠ project. If you want t...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. Today's episodes focus on source materials, specifically Attic Inscriptions and we're joined by expert Prof. Peter Liddel of the University of Manchester who also works on the Attic Inscriptions Online project. If you want to...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q3 - what were the reasons for Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian Wars - and here James talks to Prof. Paul Cartledge and Dr Maria Fragoulaki about the battles of Notion, Arginusae, and Aegospotami...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q3 - what were the reasons for Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian Wars - and here James talks to Prof. Paul Cartledge and Dr Maria Fragoulaki about the   oligarchic coup in Athens, naval battle...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q3 - what were the reasons for Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian Wars - and here James talks to Paul and Maria about the Sicilian Expedition, the Persian revolt of Amorges in 414 BCE, Persian...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q3 - what were the reasons for Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian Wars - and here James talks to Prof. Paul Cartledge and Dr Maria Fragoulaki about the Archidamian War and the consequent Peace...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q3 - what were the reasons for Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian Wars - and here James talks to Prof. Paul Cartledge and Dr Maria Fragoulaki about the sources we need to know about for this ti...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q2 - what were the causes of the Peloponnesian Wars - and here James, Polly and Neville sum up and give their opinions about the real causes of the Wars. If you want to hear the full episodes, sc...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q2 - what were the causes of the Peloponnesian Wars - and here James, Polly and Neville discuss the Megarian Decree. If you want to hear the full episodes, scroll through our back catalogue or he...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q2 - what were the causes of the Peloponnesian Wars - and here James, Polly and Neville discuss the causes of complaint, Thucydides' αιτια. If you want to hear the full episodes, scroll throu...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q2 - what were the causes of the Peloponnesian Wars - and here Prof. Polly Low and Prof. Neville Morley discuss the thirty years peace and consequent revolts. If you want to hear the full episode...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q2 - what were the causes of the Peloponnesian Wars - and here Prof. Polly Low and Prof. Neville Morley cover the first Peloponnesian War. If you want to hear the full episodes, scroll through ou...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These episodes focus on Interpretation Q2 - what were the causes of the Peloponnesian Wars - and here Prof. Polly Low and Prof. Neville Morley give us an introduction to the sources and historiography of this key period of Greek histo...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These first few episodes focus on Interpretation Q1 - why did the Greeks win the Persian Wars - and here we find out more about the Persian supply lines, Greek luck and Roel and Lynette draw conclusions about the myriad factors at pla...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These first few episodes focus on Interpretation Q1 - why did the Greeks win the Persian Wars - and here we find out whether Persian decision making or Greek leadership was a greater factor in the Greek victory. If you want to hear th...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These first few episodes focus on Interpretation Q1 - why did the Greeks win the Persian Wars - and here Roel spills the tea on just how many people were really involved... If you want to hear the full episodes, scroll through our bac...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These first few episodes focus on Interpretation Q1 - why did the Greeks win the Persian Wars - and this part is all about Xerxes' aims and Greek unity... If you want to hear the full episodes, scroll through our back catalogue or...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These first few episodes focus on Interpretation Q1 - why did the Greeks win the Persian Wars - and this part covers the roles of different Greek cities, and the earlier Persian invasion... If you want to hear the full episodes, scrol...

It's revision season! Ancient History A Level students (and the rest of you interested folk) - listen now to our bitesize episodes and supercharge your revision. These first few episodes focus on Interpretation Q1 - why did the Greeks win the Persian Wars - and this part is all about the sources... If you want to hear the full episodes, scroll through our back catalogue or head to our website...

Welcome Hardeep Dhindsa, our newest Expert in Residence and a PhD researcher at King’s College London where he specialises in classical art and its receptions. In this episode, we travel from Roman graffiti through to the Renaissance, learn how Hadrian inspired 18th century collectors, receive some top museum recommendations and find out which famous faces are lurking in Hardeep’s office!  Hardeep...

We're back with Han for Part 2 where we chat ancient pets, travel tips for Nîmes, working with Jimmy Carr, more about Tyche and Han's advice for budding content creators. Stay tuned to find out who will be revealed as our Spring '24 Expert...! Join Us Our Experts in Residence I Literally Just Told You Follow Han

Katrina sits down for a chat with the winner of the CA's recent Creative Writing Competition, held in partnership with Bloomsbury Publishing, to discuss sixteen year old Cait's winning story 'In the Bad Times' and how she was inspired by Ovid, Seamus Heaney and her Irish heritage. You can read all of the shortlisted entries here Entries for the CA Poetry Competition are open until...

We welcome Hannah Parker, better known as @historical_han, a TikTokker with over 26m likes, to the podcast as our inaugural Expert in Residence. In Part 1 of our Q&A with Han we discuss her Masters' thesis, her cat's imperial connections, the many guises of the goddess Tyche, which books she'd recommend and why Sparta is such a magical place. Stay tuned for Part 2 and click here to...

In this special bonus episode, we're joined by Jennifer Saint, former English teacher turned bestselling novelist whose debut novel Ariadne took the world by storm and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year Award in 2021. Since then, she's followed up with Elektra and, most recently, Atalanta , two vivid and unique reworkings of ancient stories and it was fascinating to chat...

Amanda Dylina Morse is a public health researcher, lecturer, and PhD student at Queen's University, Belfast. She studied her undergraduate degree in Classical Studies and Ancient History at the University of Washington before embarking upon a Master's in Public Health. She then became a surveillance epidemiologist leading and supporting investigations using emergency department, hospitalis...