Ancient Ideas, Modern Legacies: Recent Episodes
Birmingham-Southern College
Welcome to Ancient Ideas, Modern Legacies a podcast that explores how ancient ideas about race, sex, art, power, and the environment shed light on our contemporary world.
The Roman Legion and U.S. military are compared through the act of conquest, use and organization of professional armies, and the ability to rise to power through military success
An analysis of the deaths of influential people from the Roman Era: Cleopatra, Caesar, Nero, and Seneca.
This podcast is about the wackjobs of Rome. Listen to see who we thought was the craziest emperor!
This podcast explains how Ovid's collection of mythology stories written under the reign of Caesar Augustus not only impacted the Ancient Roman's view on their culture but also how Ovid's usage of mythology to make statements about Roman society was replicated by modern writers 2000 years later.
This podcast serves to draw a comparison between two works of literature that struggle with public policy that attempts to negate and neglects basic human rights.