Euripides' Bacchae - Creation, Content, Context

Series 2, Episode 4 Elton is a professor of ancient Greek things at The Open University. His first experience of the ancient world came in the mid 1980s in the form of the futuristic Franco-Japanese...

How to Write an Epic Poem

Series 2 Episode 2 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...

Ovid - a Biography

Series 1 Episode 16 Alicia Matz earned her BA from the University of Puget Sound in 2015, her MA from Rutgers University--New Brunswick in 2017, and her PhD from Boston University in 2024. Her dissertation...

Euripides' Trojan Women: Creation, Content, Context

Series 1, Episode 10 Alexandra can usually be found scribbling about gladiators, travelling to as many archaeological sites as her budget allows (camera in hand) or casting her dream movie: The Muppets...

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...

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...