Khameleon Classics

For two thousand years, study of the Greek and Roman worlds has been at the centre of Western education. Khameleon Classics is the podcast that asks why. What is our fixation with Classics, and why does the classical world only encompass Greece and Rome? How can ancient history shed light on the fight for a fairer society today? And what responsibility does it bear for the complicated legacy of colonialism that we struggle to face up to even now?

In each episode, producer Shivaike Shah speaks with an expert in the field about some of the most urgent questions facing the study of Classics today.

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Episode 1: Staging Medea: Then and Now, with Oliver Taplin

Episode 2: Race in Antiquity, with Denise McCoskey

Episode 3: The Question of the Foreigner in Homer and Athenian Tragedy, with Carol Dougherty

Episode 4: Classics and Colonialism in West Africa, with Barbara Goff

Episode 5: Why Diversify Classics? with Arum Park

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