Khameleon Classics

For two thousand years, study of the Greek and Roman worlds has been at the centre of Western education. Khameleon Classics is the podcast that asks why. What is our fixation with Classics, and why does the classical world only encompass Greece and Rome? How can ancient history shed light on the fight for a fairer society today? And what responsibility does it bear for the complicated legacy of colonialism that we struggle to face up to even now?

In each episode, producer Shivaike Shah speaks with an expert in the field about some of the most urgent questions facing the study of Classics today.

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Episode 1: Staging Medea: Then and Now, with Oliver Taplin

Episode 2: Race in Antiquity, with Denise McCoskey

Episode 3: The Question of the Foreigner in Homer and Athenian Tragedy, with Carol Dougherty

Episode 4: Classics and Colonialism in West Africa, with Barbara Goff

Episode 5: Why Diversify Classics? with Arum Park

Episode 6: Classics in African Diasporic Writing, with Justine McConnell

Episode 7: Victorian Philhellenism and Greek Love, with Daniel Orrells

Episode 8: Classics in Nazi Germany, with Helen Roche

Episode 9: Medea’s Performance History, with Fiona Macintosh

Episode 10: Classics in Haiti, with Tom Hawkins

Episode 11: Classics and Students of Colour, with Andi Burton Marsh

Episode 12: Classics and the British Empire in India, with Phiroze Vasunia

Episode 13: Expanding the Classical Canon, with Kathleen Cruz

Episode 14: Classics and the Modern Alt Right, with Curtis Dozier

Episode 15: The Medea Myth Before and After Euripides, with Jesse Weiner

Episode 16: Classics and Eugenics in the USA, with Rebecca Futo Kennedy

Episode 17: Historical Links between Egypt, Greece and Rome, with Katherine Blouin and Rachel Mairs

Episode 18: Classics and Colonial Presences in Egypt, with Heba Abd el Gawad and Usama Ali Gad

Episode 19: Medea in Politics from 1750 to 1800, with Anna Albrektson

Episode 20: Tadmor-Palmyra: Reconstruction and Digitisation, with Zena Kamash

Episode 21: Medea and Twentieth-Century Feminism, with Chiara Sulprizio

Episode 22: Liquid Antiquity, with Brooke Holmes

Episode 23: Classical Reception: A Failed Revolution? with Luke Richardson

Episode 24: Latin Poetry in the Caribbean, with John Gilmore

Episode 25: Classics and the Politics of Migration, with Demetra Kasimis

Episode 26: Classics Beyond Whiteness, with THM Gellar-Goad and Caitlin Hines

Episode 27: Classics and the Reconstruction, with Jackie Murray

Episode 28: Classics and Du Bois, with Mathias Hanses

Episode 29: Statues Then and Now, with Verity Platt

Episode 30: The Making of Khameleon Classics, with Shivaike Shah

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