Virgil's Aeneid: Creation, Content, Context

Series 1 Episode 6 Aven McMaster is Professor Emerita of the Ancient Studies department at Thorneloe University at Laurentian in Sudbury, Canada. Her scholarly interests are Latin poetry, gender and...

The First Punic War

Series 1 Episode 7 Bret C. Devereaux is a historian specializing in warfare during the Middle Roman Republic and a teaching assistant professor at North Carolina State University. His book project,...

The Thirty Tyrants

Series 1 Episode 5 Roel Konijnendijk (PhD UCL, 2015) is Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He has previously taught at Birkbeck, Warwick and Edinburgh. His research...

Gods in Epic Poetry

Series 1 Episode 4 Laura Jenkinson-Brown has been a teacher of literature, Classical Civilisation and Ancient History for two decades, and is the award-winning author of Greek Myth Comix, making educational...

Augustus - An Introduction

Series 1 Episode 3 My name is Dr Mike Beer. I am an Honorary Research Fellow in theDepartment of Classics and Ancient History at the University ofExeter. I am also an Associate Lecturer at the Open...

What is 'Classics' Anyway?

Series 1 Episode 1 Dan Stewart is an Associate Professor of Ancient History in the School of Heritage and Culture at the University of Leicester. His research is on the intersection of text and material...