The Classics Podcast
1) TCP Talking Disability: Dyslexia and Classics
Joining Dr Chella Ward this week are Dr Marcus Bell and Ronnais Lloyd to explore how dyslexia and learning difference has influenced their studies of the ancient past. This UK Disability History Month...Show More
2) TCP Talking Disability: Neurodiversity and Classics
Joining Dr Chella Ward this week are Annis Wiltshire and Dr Ellie Mackin-Roberts for an episode of Talking Disability on autism and neurodivergence. They discuss ancient sensory experiences, retrospec...Show More
3) TCP Talking Disability: Cerebral Palsy and Classics
Join Dr Chella Ward and her two guests, Alexandra and Danny, in this first episode of our Talking Disability mini-series, launching this UK Disability History Month, exploring experiences of disabilit...Show More
4) Virgil's Aeneid: BONUS with Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
We lied - there's one final episode of the series and it's a special one with Oxford don and Virgil super expert, Prof. Morgan. Find out what he thinks about our traitor theories and Aeneas' character...Show More
5) Virgil's Aeneid: Ep. 12 fidus (Summary & Book 3)
Our final episode has a summary of the series to date and then jumps into Book 3 as Katrina explains why 'The Wanderings' is a bit of a misnomer, and Caroline takes us through the smellscape of Aeneas...Show More
6) Virgil's Aeneid: Ep. 11 - The Colour Purple
Virgil's Purple Prose? No, definitely not, but the Aeneid is replete with interesting uses of the word 'purpureus' and in this episode we look at purple as a colour of beauty, death, danger and erotic...Show More
7) Virgil's Aeneid: Ep. 10 Lacrimae (Book 12)
Is the Aeneid fundamentally a melancholy poem? We revisit the Optimists and Pessimists whilst looking at examples of 'tears' and weeping, learning about the scholar Adam Parry, exploring Virgil’s use ...Show More
8) Virgil's Aeneid: Ep. 9 Pater (Fathers and Sons)
In this episode, politics come to the forefront as Katrina explains the historical context to Augustus' principate and the grizzly proscriptions (cw: violence) and Caroline explains two different scho...Show More
9) Virgil's Aeneid: Ep. 8 'Pius' - Traitors Edition
Was Aeneas a pious Faithful or a deceptive Traitor? Caroline and Katrina explore the importance of 'pietas' in the Aeneid, spill the tea on the latest episodes of Celebrity Traitors and discuss morali...Show More
10) Virgil's Aeneid: Ep. 7 Viscum ('The Golden Bough')
It’s Spooky Season and so this week’s episode is a trip to the Underworld, as imagined by Virgil in Aeneid Book VI. But what does ‘Viscum’ mean? A 'parasitic plant' (no, that's not a new description o...Show More