Interrogating Classics
Why has the study of this enduring subject been co-opted by so many colonial powers and right-wing political movements? Can we separate the discipline from its chequered past? In this series, Shivaike Shah and his interviewees discuss some of the more chilling legacies of Classics, from its use in Nazi Germany to its justification of British colonial presences in West Africa and Egypt.
Race in Antiquity
Victorian Philhellenism and Greek Love
Classics and the British Empire in India
Classics and Eugenics in the USA
Classics and Colonial Presences in Egypt
Statues Then and Now
Classics and Colonialism in West Africa
Classics in Nazi Germany
Classics and the Modern Alt Right
Historical Links between Egypt, Greece and Rome
Tadmor-Palmyra: Reconstruction and Digitisation