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A Cuban Electra, with Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos
In the last interview recorded after the Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage conference CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni talks with Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos about a Cuban reception of the myth of...
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Acting the Amazons, with Laura Martin-Simpson
Classics Confidential recently went to London to chat with actress and classicist Laura Martin-Simpson about a new theatre production based on ancient stories about the Amazons, ICONS. In 2013 Laura...
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Caroline Lawrence at the Festival of Ancient Tales
One of the first people we bumped into at the Festival of Ancient Tales was writer Caroline Lawrence, who told us about her new book THE NIGHT RAID, and shared her love of the city of Naples. Follow...
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Tom Holland at the Festival of Ancient Tales
We caught up with author Tom Holland just before he gave his talk at the Festival of Ancient Tales on Friday, and asked him how he’d first become interested in Classics. Follow this link to hear Tom...
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Illustrating the ‘Red Decade’, with Sara Monoson
We’re sharing Henry Stead‘s latest video for the Classics and Class project, which features Professor Sara Monoson talking about the work of graphic artist Hugo Gellert. Gellert’s two books from the...
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Greek tragic heroines in later literature, with Mihoko Suzuki
What is the appeal of Greek tragic heroines for later writers, particularly women authors? During a visit to the University of Miami CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni met up with the Director of the Centre for...
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Plutarch and Tolstoy, with Alexei Zadorozhny
The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy was an avid reader of the Greek and Latin classics. In this interview, Dr Alexei Zadorozhny of the University of Liverpool tells us how and why Tolstoy drew on the work...
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Encountering Ancient Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace, with Kate Nichols
Meet Dr Kate Nichols, author of Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace, Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936 (OUP, 2015). She talks to CC about the display of ancient Greek and Roman art and...
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Classics and Children’s Literature, with Helen Lovatt
This week on Classics Confidential, Dr Helen Lovatt from the University of Nottingham tells us about her exciting project on Classics and children’s literature. Why is it so important for us to study...
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Greek Hoplites March Again, with Sonya Nevin
CC’s Anastasia catches up with Sonya Nevin to discuss two Panoply animations featuring Greek hoplites. Sonya talks to us about the spectacle of Greek warfare and how she and Steve K. Simons sought to...
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Tragic Anti-War Spectacles, with Anastasia Bakogianni
CC’s own Anastasia is interviewed by Sonya Nevin about her work for War as Spectacle. Anastasia tells us how Greek tragedy was co-opted by film director Michael Cacoyannis to oppose war and violence in...
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Classical Mythology on Television, with Amanda Potter
CC’s Anastasia caught up with Dr Amanda Potter, Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University to talk about viewer reception. Amanda tells us about her innovative doctoral research project, which...
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The Eumenides Project, with Vayos Liapis and Maria Pavlou
Filmed on location on the beautiful island of Cyprus, CC’s Anastasia talks to Vayos Liapis and Maria Pavlou about the Eumenides research project. Vayos and Maria tell us about the project’s...
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Talking about ancient Greek and Roman drama
How do we react to modern productions of ancient drama? What makes us sit up and take notice at the theatre? Anastasia Bakogianni, Paula James and Tony Keen in conversation. Follow this link to listen...
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Ancient Greek History as Twentieth-Century Spectacle, with Gonda Van Steen
In the third War as Spectacle interview CC’s Anastasia talks to Gonda Van Steen about her chapter for the collection. Gonda explains to us the hist(o)rionics of 1967-74 and how the Greek dictatorship...
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A Revolutionary “Persians”, with Gonda Van Steen
In the second interview filmed on location in Cyprus, CC’s Anastasia caught up again with Gonda Van Steen. Gonda talks to us about a forgotten adaptation of Aeschylus’ Persians, infused with the...
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Living Democracy, with Paul Cartledge
This week Jessica went to Clare College, Cambridge, to interview Professor Paul Cartledge about his new book Democracy: A Life (Oxford University Press). What was ancient Greek democracy like? How was...
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Scottish Neo-Latin, with Gesine Manuwald
CC’s Anastasia caught up with Professor Gesine Manuwald to talk about ‘Neo-Latin’. Gesine explains why Latin continued to be widely used in post-classical times and talks about a project she is...
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East Africa and the Classical Tradition
Welcome to the third episode in our new series of audio podcasts! We’re delighted to have teamed up with Carla Bocchetti from IFRA (French Institute for Research in Africa) in Nairobi to produce an...
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Star Wars and Classical Reception
This episode of Classics Confidential was recorded at the 2017 Classical Association conference (hosted in Canterbury by the University of Kent and The Open University). One of the most well-attended...
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