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Welcome to Lesche, a podcast on new books and ideas in the field of Ancient Greek Studies.
In each episode, we'll be talking to classicists about their latest contributions to the field.

We’re going to start by releasing two episodes each month, on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month. The first episode will debut on Wednesday, September 11.

You can find us on Instagram, @leschepodcast, or send us an email at leschepodcast@gmail.com

If you have an idea for a new book or topic you think would make for a good conversation, please reach out using this form.
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For more on the Song of Seikilos see:

M. L. West, Ancient Greek Music. Oxford, 1992, with modern musical notation on p. 301
A. D'Angour, "The Song of Seikilos: a Musically Annotated Ancient Greek Poem, in Antigone
E. Pöhlmann and M. West, Documents of Ancient Greek Music. Oxford, 2001. (The Song of Seikilos is dossier #90)

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Theme music: "The Song of Seikilos," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius
This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study.

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Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com
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Introducing Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

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Welcome to Lesche, a podcast on new books and ideas in the field of Ancient Greek Studies.
In each episode, we'll be talking to classicists about their latest contributions to the field.

We’re going to start by releasing two episodes each month, on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month. The first episode will debut on Wednesday, September 11.

You can find us on Instagram, @leschepodcast, or send us an email at leschepodcast@gmail.com

If you have an idea for a new book or topic you think would make for a good conversation, please reach out using this form.
____________________________
For more on the Song of Seikilos see:

M. L. West, Ancient Greek Music. Oxford, 1992, with modern musical notation on p. 301
A. D'Angour, "The Song of Seikilos: a Musically Annotated Ancient Greek Poem, in Antigone
E. Pöhlmann and M. West, Documents of Ancient Greek Music. Oxford, 2001. (The Song of Seikilos is dossier #90)

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Plato and Athens 57:08

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Carol Atack joins me in the Lesche to discuss Plato's civic entanglements (and disenchantments) with his native Athens. Carol is the author of a new biography of Plato titled Plato: A Civic Life (Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press 2024). The book is the second in a new series, Great Lives of the Ancient World , edited by Paul Cartledge. Ancient texts Plato: lots and lots Xenophon's Socratic works Isocrates, Against the sophists About our guest Carol Atack is a fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her books include Plato: A Civic Life (2024), Xenophon ( Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics , 2024), and The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (2019), based on her doctoral research. She has published many articles and chapters on classical Greek political thought and its modern reception, on topics ranging from free speech through utopian thought to radical contemporary readings of Greek political thought. She is currently working on a monograph on the temporality of Plato’s dialogues. ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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The Sophists 55:48

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Wedding Poetics in Early Greek Literature 56:18

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Andromache Karanika joins me in the Lesche to discuss how we can detect traces of wedding poetics in early Greek literature, especially poetry (hexamter and lyric). Andromache is the author of Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greek Poetry (OUP 2024). Primary texts Iliad , esp. the Teikhoskopeia (Book 3) and the Deception of Zeus (Book 14) Odyssey , esp. the start of Book 6 Homeric Hymn to Demeter Sappho 21 (virginity poem), 44 (Wedding of Hector and Andromache) Pollux 9, on the "tortoise game" The ballad of the 'bride who suffered misfortune' (της νύφης που κακοτύχησε/κακοπάθησε, Modern Greek folk song) Also mentioned M. Alexiou, The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (2nd ed. Rowman and Littlefield 2002 [1st ed. 1975]). A. Lardinois and L. McClure, eds., Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society (Princeton 2001). J.H. Oakley and R. Sinos, The Wedding in Ancient Athens (Ann Arbor 1993). R. Seaford, 1987. 'The tragic wedding', JHS 107: 106-30. About our guest Andromache Karanika is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Voices at Work: Women, Performance and Labor in Ancient Greece (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) and Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greece (Oxford University Press), and co-editor of Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome: Representations and Reactions (2020). She served as editor of TAPA (2018-2021) and President of CAMWS (2023-2024). ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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The Cambridge Greek Lexicon 53:57

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James Diggle joins me in the Lesche to discuss the 2021 Cambridge Greek Lexicon (2 vols.) of which he was editor-and-chief. We discuss why it was time for this sort of thing (and why it took 24 years to complete), how to use it, and why it improves on LSJ ... plus, how the team approached translating some of the naughtier words. Some links ' Liddell and Scott ' poem by Thomas Hardy (1843) Cambridge Greek Lexicon project page , where you'll also find a video of the Faculty of Classics' publication celebration. Alison Flood's review in The Guardian : English dictionary of ancient Greek ‘spares no blushes’ with fresh look at crudity Peter Jones' review in The Spectator : The Cambridge Greek Lexicon is an eye-opener for classical scholars About our guest James Diggle, CBE, FBA, is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College, where he was Director of Studies in Classics for over forty years. His publications include The Phaethon of Euripides (Cambridge, 1970), Flauii Cresconii Corippi Iohannidos Libri VIII (joint editor, Cambridge, 1970), Euripidis Fabulae (Oxford Classical Text, 3 vols., 1981–1994), Studies on the Text of Euripides (1981), The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Orestes (1991), Euripidea: Collected Essays (1994), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta (1998), Theophrastus, Characters (Cambridge 'Orange' 2004; 'Green and Yellow' 22). He was University Orator at Cambridge for eleven years and has published a selection of his speeches (Cambridge Orations 1982–1993 (Cambridge, 1994)). He is also joint editor of The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman (Cambridge, 1972), joint author of Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca (Cambridge, 2005), and Editor-in-Chief of The Cambridge Greek Lexicon (Cambridge, 2021). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens. ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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The Longue Durée of the Greek Polis 59:42

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John Ma joins me in the Lesche to discuss the longue durée of the Greek polis . John is the author of the new, monumental, and much anticipated book Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity (Princeton 2024). Happy Holidays! About our guest John Ma was born in New York of Chinese parents. He grew up in Geneva, where he studied Greek and Latin at school and outside school. He went on to study Classics, then ancient history at Oxford. He has taught ancient history in Classics Departments at Princeton, Oxford, and Columbia. Ma is deeply interested in studying Greek history, especially in the Hellenistic period, using documentary and material sources. Ancient texts Archaic poetry Aristotle, Politics Xenophon, Hellenica And many more... Also mentioned Too many to list! But I'll note: Josiah Ober, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People (Princeton 1989). Mogens Herman Hansen and Thomas Heine Nelson, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Greek Poleis (Oxford 2004). Mogens Herman Hansen, Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State (OUP 2006) The Polis Inventory App ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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SPECIAL: Pasolini's THE RETURN, with Homerist Barbara Graziosi 46:54

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( Spoiler alert! This episode is jam-packed with plot spoilers for THE RETURN.) Homeric scholar Barbara Graziosi joins me in the Lesche to discuss Umberto Pasolini's THE RETURN, a film dramatization of the second half of the Odyssey starring Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus and Juliette Binoche as Penelope. About our guest Barbara Graziosi is Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies at Princeton, holding the C. Ewing Chair of ancient Greek. Graziosi attended Oxford University (Corpus Christi College B.A. and MSt in Classics) and Cambridge University (Ph.D. in Classics) and taught at Oxford, Reading, and Durham before joining the faculty at Princeton in 2018. She also held various visiting positions in Italy. She has written widely on ancient Greek literature (especially Homer) and its reception, as well as more autobiographical pieces on how we make ancient literature our own. Her latest books are Homer (OUP 2018) and Classics, Love, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini , with Andrea Capra (OUP 2024). Ancient texts Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Also mentioned Emily Wilson's discussions of the murder of the "disloyal" enslaved women in Odysseus' household -- and the sexual politics of translation. See, e.g., Wilson's New Yorker article: "A translator's reckoning with the female characters of the Odyssey " (Dec. 18, 2017). ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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(Imperial) Greek Epic 55:19

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Emma Greensmith and Tim Whitmarsh join me in the Lesche to discuss how Imperial Greek epic fits into our understanding of Ancient Greek epic as a whole. Emma has just edited the Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic , and she was also a member of the research project Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History , which Tim directed. About our guests Emma Greensmith is Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St John’s College. She is the editor of Omnibus and an associate editor for the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic . She specialises in imperial Greek literature, particularly epic poetics and religious culture. Her 2020 book, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic , offers a new reading of the role of epic and the reception of Homer in the Graeco-Roman world. She has written many articles on ancient Greek literature and has co-edited a volume on ‘ Writing Homer Under Rome ’ (2022). She works on several public engagement initiatives with the charity Classics for All, and recently filmed a documentary on Homer’s Odyssey and its cultural legacy. Tim Whitmarsh FBA is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College. A specialist in the literature, culture and religion of ancient Greece, he is the author of 10 books, including Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (Knopf 2015), and over 100 academic articles. He has contributed to newspapers such as The Guardian , the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books , and to BBC radio and TV. Ancient texts Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Triphiodorus, Sack of Troy Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica Anon., Vision of Dorotheus Nonnus, Dionysiaca Eudocia, Homeric Centones Colluthus, Abduction of Helen Also mentioned Jasper Griffin, "Greek Epic," in the Cambridge Companion to the Epic (Cambridge 2010). ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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Translating the Iliad, with Emily Wilson 58:10

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Emily Wilson, acclaimed translator, joins me in the Lesche to discuss the challenges and pleasures of translating the Iliad. We discuss the Greek of two passages in detail: Book 6 lines 482-502 and Book 22 lines 199-204 (lines as in the OCT). About our guest Emily Wilson is Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature). She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Emily's substack Emily on Blue Sky Ancient texts Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Plato, Hippias Minor Longinus, On the Sublime (ch. 9) Also mentioned Karen Emmerich, Literary Translation and the Making of Originals . Bloomsbury 2017. "Munro's Law", i.e., D. B. Munro's observation that there is no overlap in the content of the Iliad and the Odyssey (more info here ). Norton Anthology of World Literature , Vol. A (5th ed.) Johanna's review of Emily's translation of the Iliad for Slate ( here ) ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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David M. Pritchard joins me in the Lesche to discuss what appears to have been, in Nicole Loraux's famous words, a "very Athenian invention": the epitaphios logos , or funeral oration given over the war dead at their public burial. Both the Athenian funeral oration and the legacy of Nicole Loraux's pioneering study of it are the subjects of David's new edited volume The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux. About our guest David M. Pritchard is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is well known internationally for researching the symbiosis between war, democracy and culture in classical Athens. He has held some fifteen fellowships in Australia, Europe and the US. Associate Professor Pritchard speaks on radio and regularly writes for newspapers around the world. Ancient texts Athenian funeral orations "Historical” texts: Thucydides 2.34-46, Demosthenes 60, Hyperides' Funeral Oration "Literary" examples: Gorgias' fragmentary funeral oration, Lysias 2, Plato's Menexenus , Isocrates' Panegyricus Also mentioned Cornelius Castoriadis, L'institution imaginaire de la sociét é (Paris 1975). Nicole Loraux, L'invention d'Athènes: Histoire de l'oraison funèbre dans la "cité classique" (Paris 1981 [1st ed.]; 1993 [2nd abridged ed.), translated into English by Alan Sheridan as The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City (HUP 1986/reprint PUP 2006) Nicole Loraux, Les enfants d'Athéna. Idées athéniennes sur la citoyenneté et la division des sexes (Paris 1984), translated into English by Caroline Levine as The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and Division Between the Sexes (PUP 1993). ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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Alexander in the East 49:43

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Rachel Kousser joins me in the Lesche to discuss Alexander III of Macedon's post-Persepolis campaigns in Asia (330-323 BCE), the subject of her recent book Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great. About our guest Rachel Kousser writes and teaches about Alexander the Great, the destruction of monuments in ancient Greece, and the representation of gender and power in the Mediterranean world. For her work, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Getty Research Institute, and the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts. She’s published articles in Art Bulletin , American Journal of Archaeology , and Res: Archaeology and Aesthetics , as well as two books with Cambridge University Press. Rachel is currently the chair of the Classics Program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and a professor of ancient art and archaeology at Brooklyn College. She has a B.A. in Classics and Art History from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Ancient texts Polybius, Histories Diodorus, Bibliotheca Curtius, Historiae Alexandri Magni Plutarch, Life of Alexander Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri Also mentioned Brooke Allen, " Alexander the Great: Or the Terrible? " The Hudson Review , Vol. 58, No. 2 (Summer, 2005), pp. 220-230. Pierre Briant, The First European: A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire (translated from the French by Nicholas Elliott), Harvard 2017. Michael Kulikowski, " A Very Bad Man: Julius Caesar, Génocidaire ." London Review of Books , 18 June 2020. Alexander scholarship by W. W. Tarn, Ernst Badian, and Brian Bosworth. ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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Athenian Drama in Sicily (Ferdia Lennon, GLORIOUS EXPLOITS) 48:43

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Ferdia Lennon joins me in the Lesche to discuss his award-winning and bestselling novel, Glorious Exploits (UK Penguin Fig Tree/US Macmillan 2024), which is set in Syracuse in the aftermath of the Athenian invasion of Sicily during the Peloponnesian War. About our guest Ferdia Lennon was born and raised in Dublin. He holds a BA in History and Classics from University College Dublin and an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. Glorious Exploits is his first novel. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as a Book at Bedtime, was a Sunday Times bestseller and the winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024. After spending many years in Paris, he now lives in Norwich with his wife and son. Ancient texts Plutarch, Life of Nicias Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War Euripides, various tragedies Aristophanes, various comedies Also mentioned Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night ( Voyage au bout de la nuit ) Karl Ove Knausgaard, Inadvertent Mary Renault’s historical novels Further reading Kathryn G. Bosher, Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily . Cambridge 2021. Kathryn G. Bosher, ed., Theater outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy . Cambridge 2012. Emily Greenwood, "Thucydides on the Sicilian Expedition," in S. Forsdyke, E. Foster, and R. Balot, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides . Oxford 2017. ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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SPECIAL: Netflix's KAOS, with creator Charlie Covell 53:50

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Charlie Covell joins me in the Lesche to discuss their hit Netflix show KAOS, a modern dark dramedic take on Ancient Greek mythology. The show, set in something like modern-day Crete (and on Olympus and in Hades), interweaves stories of Prometheus, the Olympian gods, Orpheus and Eurydice, Minos/Ariadne/Theseus/the Minotaur, and Caeneis. Special thanks on this one to Mike Farah & Jess Sze. About our guest British creator-writer Charlie Covell (they/them) recently created the Netflix original series “Kaos” starring Jeff Goldblum, Janet McTeer, Nabhaan Rizwan, David Thewlis, and Debi Mazar, among others. The 8-episode debuted on August 29, 2024. Previously, Charlie wrote the hit series “The End of The F***ing World” for Channel 4 in the UK (also available on Netflix). The series was praised for its writing, execution and subject matter, and has gone on to win a BAFTA TV Award, Peabody Award, and Royal Television Society Award. Charlie was also individually nominated for a British Screenwriters Award, BAFTA TV Craft Award, Royal Television Society Award, and Writers’ Guild of Great Britian Award. Charlie was also part of BAFTA’s prestigious Breakthrough Brits program and previously named one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow. ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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Subject Communities of the Athenian Empire 59:04

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Leah Lazar and Christy Constantakopoulou join me in the Lesche to discuss their work on the relationship between Athens and its subject communities (the "allies") during the fifth-century Athenian "empire" (ἀρχή). Leah has a new book out on the subject, Athens and Power in the Fifth Century BC ; Christy’s monograph Dance of the Islands (a favorite of my Classical Greek History students) opened up new ways of thinking about the interconnectivity of the empire’s communities when it came out in 2007. About our guests Leah Lazar is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents in Oxford. She is part of the ERC-funded CHANGE Project, researching the monetary and economic history of Anatolia. In January 2025, she will be starting as a lecturer at the University of Manchester. Her first book, Athens and Power in the Fifth Century BC , came out this year with Oxford University Press. Christy Constantakopoulou is a researcher in the National Hellenic Research Foundation. She was previously Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published on the history of the Aegean islands, ancient historiography, Greek religion, and the Athenian empire. Her book The Dance of the Islands: Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World came out in 2007 with Oxford University Press (paperback 2010). Ancient texts Thucydides Aristophanes, Babylonians (fragmentary) and Acharnians The lapis primus of the Athenian Tribute Lists, 454/3 BC: IG I3 259 The 'Chalkis Decree', 446/5 (or 424/3?): IG I3 40 Decrees for Methone, 430/29–424/3 BC: IG I3 61 Also mentioned Anthropologist Veena Das's work on "poisonous knowledge". R. Meiggs (1972), The Athenian Empire . Oxford. B. D. Meritt, H. T. Wade-Gery, and M. F. McGregor (1939-53), The Athenian Tribute Lists , Vols. 1-4. Princeton. L. Nixon and S. Price (1990), "The Size and Resources of Greek Cities," in O. Murray and S. Price, eds., The Greek City . Oxford: 137–70. R. Osborne (1999), "Inscribing Performance," in S. Goldhill and R. Osborne eds., Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy . Cambridge: 341–358. ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and John Gibert join me in the Lesche to discuss their editio princeps of a newly-discovered papyrus (P.Phil.Nec. 23) containing lines from two of Euripides' fragmentary plays, Ino and Poluidos . The publication, in ZPE, is currently only available in print. The ToC for the issue in which it appears is available here . Information about the conference on 'The New Euripides' held at the Center for Hellenic Studies this past June is available here . Pre-prints based on the speakers' presentations are available here . During the episode, there's mention of an upcoming (as of the day of this podcast's release) public conference on the new papyrus, which will be held at UC Boulder on Saturday, September 14th. Information about the conference is available here . About our guests Yvona Trnka-Amrhein is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She works on Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, literary papyrology, the culture of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, and the reception of Greek narrative literature in Armenian historiography. Her current book project, Portraits of Pharaohs, studies the historical fictions of Greco-Roman Egypt. She co-directs The City of the Baboon Project at Hermopolis Magna in Middle Egypt. John Gibert is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He writes mainly on archaic and classical Greek poetry, especially drama. He is the author of Euripides’ Ion (2019) and Change of Mind in Greek Tragedy (1995), and co-author (with Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp) of Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Tragedies II (2004). Ancient texts Euripides, Ino and Poluidos ; Medea , Hecuba Plato(?), Minos Also mentioned Carrara, L. 2014. L’Indovino Poliido: Eschilo, Le Cretesi , Sofocle, Manteis , Euripide, Poliido (Rome). Coo, L. and A. Uhlig, eds. 2019. Aeschylus at Play: Studies in Aeschylean Satyr Drama . BICS 62.2 (special issue). Finglass, P. J. and L. Coo, eds. 2020. Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy . Cambridge. Johnson, W. A. 2004. Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus . Toronto. Luppe, W. and Henry, W. B. (2012) 5131. Tragedy (Euripides, Ino ?), The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 78: 19-25. ________________________________ Thanks for joining us in the Lesche! Podcast art: Daniel Blanco Theme music: " The Song of Seikilos ," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study . Instagram: @leschepodcast Email: leschepodcast@gmail.com Suggest a book using this form…

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