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In Greek antiquity a lesche (λέσχη) was a spot to hang out and chat. Here Brown University professor Johanna Hanink hosts conversations with fellow Hellenists about their latest work in the field.
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Richard Hunter and Rebecca Laemmle join me in the Lesche to discuss their new commentary on Odyssey Book 11, in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics ("Green and Yellow") commentary series.
Ancient texts
Homer, Odyssey (general) and Iliad (esp. Book 9 and Book 23)
Aristophanes, Frog…
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Andrej Petrovic joins me in the Lesche to discuss a new verse-inscription from Teos (in Turkey) discovered in 2013 by Musa Kadıoğlu, director of the excavations at Teos. Together with Mustafa Adak (Professor of Greek Language and Literature, University of Akdeniz) and Christian Marek (University of…
Nilo Otero joins me in the Lesche to discuss his work as First Assistant Director on Christopher Nolan's 2026 film The Odyssey.
Works mentioned
Translations of The Odyssey by Richmond Lattimore, Robert Fagles, Peter Green, and Robert Fitzgerald.
“Postscript," in The Odyssey. Trans. by R…
Naoise Mac Sweeney joins me in the Lesche to discuss her ERC-funded multi-year project "Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World" (MIGMAG). Read more about the project here.
The first major output is a volume titled Local Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World (c.1…
Mirjam E. Kotwick joins me in the Lesche to discuss her new book The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams: Early Greek Hermeneutics and Its Sources, which is hot off the (Princeton University) press.
For more on Katerina Evangelatou's 2015 production of Rhesus, as part of the Epidaurus-Athens Thea…
Daniel Schillinger joins me in the Lesche to discuss his new book Luckless: The Idea of Luck in Ancient Greek Thought, which recently appeared with Oxford University Press.
Find out more about Daniel's work here: https://www.danielschillinger.com/
Ancient authors and texts
Sophocles, Oedipus …
Scott Lawin Arcenas joins me in the Lesche to discuss his new book, Political Violence in Ancient Greece: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Stasis, 500-301 BCE (Cambridge University Press 2026).
Ancient texts (select)
Homer, Odyssey and Iliad
Alcaeus
Solon
Herodotus, esp. the account of t…
Content warning: This episode contains detailed descriptions of childbirth complications -- including maternal and infant mortality -- and of how such complications were handled by ancient midwives and physicians. There are graphic references to surgical procedures.
Tara Mulder joins me in the Lesc…
Eric Csapo and Peter Wilson join me in the Lesche to discuss their three-volume A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC (Cambridge University Press).
Volume 1, The Theatre Festivals of Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary, appeared earlier this year. Volume 2, Theatre B…
Bill Beck joins me in the Lesche to discuss his new translation of the vetera scholia to Iliad Book 1-2: The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad: A Translation, Volume 1 (Cambridge 2025). The book is the first in a series dedicated to translation of the Iliadic scholia.
For an episode on the Ilia…
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