Guest: Natalie Lawrence, author of Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meaning.
Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection
Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from the classic writings The Way of Chuang Tzu translated by Thomas Merton.
Guest: James C. Scott is the author of Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest State and the Sterling Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.
Guest: Kent H. Dixon is a translator, a writer, and Emeritus Professor of English, at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Translated into English and presented as a graphic novel, this version of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH is a father/son project by scholar and translator Kent H. Dixon and his son, the comix artist Kevin H. Dixon, who bring a fresh … Continued
Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the first woman who translated the ancient Greek epic story, The Odyssey by Homer, into the English language.
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
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.