Guest: Jack Weatherford is the author of the book The History of Money. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, and The History of Money, … Continued
Stephen Greenblatt discusses “Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare” with host Richard Wolinsky, from 2005.
Guest: Emily Hauser is a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of three novels reimagining the women of Greek myth: For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner, and For the Immortal. She is also the author of How Women Became Poets, and most recently, of Penelope’s Bones: A New History of … Continued
Guest: Robert Kanigel is Professor Emeritus of Science Writing at MIT and the author of several books for which he has received many awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEH “Public Scholar” grant. His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; … Continued
Guest: Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Democracy: A Life.
Guest: Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and the author of The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World. Her website is www.daisydunn.co.uk.
Guest: Sarah Teets holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Virginia and an MA in Classics from the University of Colorado, Boulder
Guest: Armand D’Angour is a British classical scholar and classical musician, Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University, and is a Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. He authored several books, including The Greeks and the New: Novelty in Ancient Greek Imagination and Experience as well as his latest book Socrates in … Continued
Host Max Pringle speaks with historian and author James Oakes about his latest book: “Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Anti-Slavery Constitution.”
Guest: A. C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, and author of the book Democracy and Its Crisis.
