Ancient Office Hours

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Episode 86 - Dr. Sarah Beckmann Mar 06, 2024

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Dr. Sarah Beckmann, a professor of Classics at UCLA, joins Lexie to discuss comparisons between Rome and America, examine Roman domestic art, shrines, & cult practices, and explore the universal nature of religion/spirituality in the ancient world and the challenges of communicating them in the modern era. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded August 18, 2023.

Learn more about Dr. Beckmann: https://classics.ucla.edu/person/sarah-beckmann/

Check out Dr. Beckmann’s publications on Academia: https://ucla.academia.edu/SarahBeckmann

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Episode 85 - Dr. Martin Worthington Feb 21, 2024

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Dr. Martin Worthington, a professor of Assyriology at Trinity College Dublin, joins Lexie to discuss the reasoning behind his decision to switch from Egyptology into Assyriology, his experience producing a Babylonian language short film, consulting for Marvel’s Eternals, and combating the challenges of romanticising ancient worlds for the purpose of simplification for the general public. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded August 18, 2023.

Learn more about Dr. Worthington: https://www.tcd.ie/nmes/staff/near--middle-eastern-studies/worthinm/

Check out Dr. Worthington’s publications on Academia: https://tcd.academia.edu/MartinWorthington

Watch the Babylonian language film “The Poor Man of Nippur”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYoFlnJLoE

Explore the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature: https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/

Read “Before the Muses” by Benjamin R. Foster: https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/978-1-883053-76-5.html

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOzymandiasProject

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Episode 84 - Dr. John Hyland Feb 07, 2024

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Dr. John Hyland, a professor of ancient history at Christopher Newport University, joins Lexie to discuss getting into Classics via Herodotus and moving into military history of the Persian Empire, taking a deep dive into Sparta’s relationship with Persia, and how Persian culture gets lost in translation in media adaptations of Persia focused material. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded August 14, 2023.

Learn more about Dr. Hyland: https://cnu.edu/people/johnhyland/

Check out Dr. Hyland’s publications on Academia: https://cnu.academia.edu/JohnHyland

Read Dr. Hyland’s book “Persian Interventions”: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/11954/persian-interventions

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOzymandiasProject

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Episode 83 - Dr. Alan Lenzi Jan 24, 2024

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Dr. Alan Lenzi, a professor of history at University of the Pacific, joins Lexie to discuss getting into the ancient world via Biblical Studies and music, whether Gilgamesh translations have been done to death in Assyriology, and how the portrayal of ancient Mesopotamia in popular media has changed. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded August 10, 2023.

Learn more about Dr. Lenzi: https://liberalarts.pacific.edu/campus-directory/alan-lenzi

Check out Dr. Lenzi’s publications on Academia: https://pacific.academia.edu/AlanLenzi

Check out the Corpus of Akkadian Shuila Prayers: http://www.shuilas.org/about.html

Listen to “The Mesopotamians” by They Might Be Giants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMRTGv82Zo

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOzymandiasProject

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Episode 82 - Dr. Roselyn A. Campbell Jan 10, 2024

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Dr. Roselyn A. Campbell, a bioarchaeologist, Egyptologist, visiting assistant professor at UC Riverside, and assistant director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, joins Lexie to chat about her path to becoming a bioarchaeologist and Egyptologist, dispelling misconceptions around human sacrifice, power, and violence, and whether bones and science in true crime media bother bioarchaeologists. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded August 3, 2023.

Learn more about Dr. Campbell: https://www.roselynacampbell.com/

Check out Dr. Campbell’s publications on Academia: https://ucriverside.academia.edu/RoselynCampbell

Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosesbones_phd/?hl=en

Check out the Luskin Center’s podcast Then & Now: https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/then-now-podcast/

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOzymandiasProject

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Episode 81 - Dr. Daniel W. Leon Dec 27, 2023

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Dr. Daniel W. Leon, a professor of Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, joins Lexie to discuss getting into Greek via Jewish tragedies, his research on the life and rule of Philip the Third of Macedon, his work on the origins of nationalist movements using history as a throughline, and how to balance teaching general classes vs special topics courses. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded July 28, 2023.

Learn more about Dr. Leon: https://classics.illinois.edu/directory/profile/dleon

Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanLeonRuiz

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOzymandiasProject

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Episode 80 - Dr. Alex Purves Dec 13, 2023

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Dr. Alex Purves, a professor of Classics at UCLA, joins Lexie to discuss whether translation preferences matter when teaching Homer, how we balance making material accessible vs preserving a higher entry point to appreciate harder to translate parts, why we should expand beyond straight reception in media and take new risks. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded July 28, 2023.

Note: My normal mic died so I unfortunately had to use my backup which is a bit more sensitive to background noise.

Learn more about Dr. Purves: https://classics.ucla.edu/person/alex-purves/

Check out some of the books we discussed. Links to them below!

Wrath Goddess Sing: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wrath-goddess-sing-maya-deane?variant=40814402600994

Circe: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35959740

Silence of the Girls: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37969723-the-silence-of-the-girls

A Thousand Ships: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-thousand-ships-natalie-haynes?variant=40823625285666

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOzymandiasProject

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Episode 79 - Meghan Sullivan Nov 29, 2023

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Meghan Sullivan, creator and host of the History N' Games podcast, joins Lexie to discuss why and how she started her History N’ Games podcast, how to balance personal and professional gaming desires, her process of finding history in games, and how to prioritize games when there’s almost too much content. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded July 27, 2023.

Note: DLC stands for “downloadable content” and refers to additional content for gamers to download for video games after their initial release. This content can include new levels, characters, weapons, or new visual customization options.

Check out Meghan’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@megsullivan

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOzymandiasProject

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Episode 78 - Dr. Brent Vine Nov 08, 2023

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Dr. Brent Vine, a professor emeritus of Classics and Indo-European Studies at UCLA, joins Lexie to discuss how linguists divide their field into subfields and periods, the development and importance of meter to both Homeric poetry and other forms of Greek poetry, and whether the Greeks had an ancient equivalent to Shakespearean English. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded July 26, 2023.

Learn more about Dr. Vine: https://classics.ucla.edu/person/brent-vine/

Check out Dr.Vine’s publications on Academia: https://ucla.academia.edu/BrentVine

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOzymandiasProject

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Episode 77 - Dr. Natalie Van Deusen Oct 25, 2023

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Dr. Natalie Van Deusen, a professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Alberta, joins Lexie to discuss how to be a philologist and navigate runes in Old Norse studies, whether female warriors like Lagertha from Vikings could have existed, and gives her a crash course on Norse mythology from the Valkyries and Freyja to Freyja’s cats and the Giants. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.theozymandiasproject.com!

Originally recorded July 20, 2023.

Learn more about Dr. Van Deusen: https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/vandeuse

Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvandeusen?lang=en

Check out Dr. Van Deusen’s publications on Academia: https://ualberta.academia.edu/NatalieVanDeusen

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheOzymandiasProject

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