The Ancient History podcast is the companion podcast of Ancient History Magazine, a publication dedicated to exploring the ancient world. Each episode will feat...
In this episode, we talk to Christopher Parmenter about racism in ancient Greece, how it differed from modern racism, and how commodity biography offers a useful theoretical tool for understanding it.
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AH14 - Soldiers, Wages, and the Hellenistic Economies
In this episode of the podcast, we talk to Charlotte van Regenmortel about the changes to the systems of recruitment in the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods, the importance of wage labourers in early Hellenistic armies, and how the military labour market impacted the wider Hellenistic economies.
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AH13 - The Trouble with Ancient DNA
In this episode of the podcast, we speak with Anna Källén about ancient DNA, the limitations of and issues with current studies of ancient DNA, and what can be done to make the study more transparent.
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AH12 - In Blood and Ashes: A Review
In this episode of the podcast, I take a look at the book In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece by Jessica L. Lamont, exploring the content of book, the subject of Greek curse tablets, and my overall thoughts about the book.
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AH11 - The Ancient Polis
In this episode we talk to John Ma about the ancient polis, what the key elements of a polis were, how the polis developed throughout antiquity, and why the polis declined.
The Ancient History podcast is the companion podcast of Ancient History Magazine, a publication dedicated to exploring the ancient world. Each episode will feature a new guest to discuss their research, a new book, or talk about ancient history, from Greece and Rome to Mesopotamia and China, and everything in between.
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