Guests

Grace Erny is an assistant professor in the Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and affiliated faculty at the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology and the Archaeological Research Facility. Her research focuses primarily on the archaeology and history of Greece and ...

Jane Draycott is a Roman historian and archaeologist, and the author of Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen and Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome. She was awarded a BA (Hons) in Archaeology and Ancient History and an MA in Ancient History fr...

Richard Cole is Lecturer in Digital Classics at the University of Bristol and co-Director of the Bristol Digital Game Lab. His research focuses on how the history and culture of antiquity intersects with new media, in particular video games, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. From 2020-20...

Robin Pierson is a professional podcaster. His show “The History of Byzantium” tells the story of the Roman Empire from the collapse of the West in 476 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The show was created in 2012 to continue the narrative established by Mike Duncan’s wonderful podcast “The Hi...

Mario Telò is Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at UC Berkeley. He is the author of Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon (U of Chicago Press 2018); Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy (Ohio State University P...

Natalie J. Swain is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Acadia, Canada, where her research interests include Latin elegy, narratology, and the reception of the ancient Mediterranean world in modern comics and videogames. She is currently co-editing a volume on the ancient Mediter...

Jacques Bailly teaches Greek and Latin at all levels as well as courses on Plato, Aristotle, and etymology. His primary scholarly interests lie in the philology of ancient philosophy, meaning that he enjoys working on close readings of the original Greek and Latin texts that deal with philosophical ...

Lindsay Allason-Jones (OBE, BA, MLitt, FSA, FSAScot, FMA, FRSA) was Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Artefact Studies and Reader in Roman Material Culture at Newcastle University until she retired in 2011. She was previously Director of Archaeological Museums for the University and is no...

Dr. Julia Troche is an Egyptologist, public historian, and educator who is passionate about making history accessible across barriers. She holds a Ph.D. in Egyptology from Brown University and a B.A. in History from UCLA. Julia is currently Associate Professor at Missouri State University in Springf...

Dr. Christian Casey is an Egyptologist who specializes in the study of ancient Egyptian languages. He obtained his PhD in Egyptology from Brown University in 2020 and now works as a researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. He is especially interested in sharing the exciting world of ancient Egypt wit...

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Anthony Kaldellis is a professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He has published many books and articles on the history, culture, and literature of Byzantium, ranging from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. His most recent book is a new, comprehensive history of the eastern Roman empi...