About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 53 episodes
- How Could (Academic) Writing Be Otherwise? With Helen Betya Rubinstein · 51 min · Season 3 Episode 49Writer and writing coach Helen Betya Rubinstein joins me in the Lesche to talk about her new book Feels Like Trouble: Provocations on Writing, Teaching & Power, which came out in…
- A New "Green and Yellow" of Odyssey 11, with Richard Hunter and Rebecca Laemmle · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 48Richard 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")…
- A New Anacreontic Poem on Stone, with Andrej Petrovic · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 47Andrej 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…
- Migration and the Early Greek World · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 45Naoise 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…
- Dream Interpretation, from Homer to Aristotle · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 44Mirjam 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…
- Luck (and Lucklessness) in Ancient Greek Thought · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 43Daniel 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…
- Stasis: Political Violence in Classical Greece · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 42Scott 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…
- Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 41Content warning: This episode contains detailed descriptions of childbirth complications -- including maternal and infant mortality -- and of how such complications were handled…
- A Social and Economic History of the Theater to 300 BC · 60 min · Season 2 Episode 40Eric 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…
- (Translating) the Scholia to the Iliad · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 39Bill 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…
- Seal-Impressions (typoi) and Ancient Image Making · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 38Art historian Verity Platt joins me in the Lesche to discuss her much-anticipated new book Epistemic Impressions: Making and Mediating Classical Art and Text (Oxford 2026). On…
- Time and Ancient Textiles · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 37Marie-Louise Nosch, former director of the Centre for Textile Research at the Saxo Institute of the University of Copenhagen, joins me in the Lesche to discuss her new book Time…
- The Doloneia (Iliad Book 10) · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 36Christos C. Tsagalis joins me in the Lesche to discuss the Doloneia, i.e., Iliad 10, which is the topic of both Christos' monograph The Homeric Doloneia: Evolution and Shaping of…
- Reappraising the Choruses of Greek Tragedy · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 35Rosa Andújar joins me in the Lesche to discuss her new book, Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 2025). Tragedies mentioned Aeschylus Agamemnon (chorus…
- The Enchanted World of Late Antiquity · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 34Michael Satlow joins me in the Lesche to discuss his new book An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity, which will be published on February 3 by…
- The Influence of Plato's Timaeus: Beauty & Creation · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 33Piero Boitani joins me in the Lesche to discuss his new book Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond (Princeton University Press 2025). Ancient…
- The Life (and Times) of Diogenes 'the Cynic' · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 32Inger Kuin joins me in the Lesche to discuss her new book Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic (Basic Books 2025). Ancient sources…
- Enchantment Technologies of Ancient Greek Religion · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 31Tatiana Bur joins me in the Lesche to discuss her new book Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion (Cambridge University Press 2025). Ancient texts Homer, Iliad…
- Book Reviewing in Classics, with Clifford Ando (BMCR) and Mary Beard (the TLS) · 60 min · Season 2 Episode 30Mary Beard, Classics editor at the Times Literary Supplement, and Clifford Ando, senior editor of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, join me in the Lesche to discuss the state of…
- The Ancient Shore · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 29Harvard University historian Paul Kosmin joins me in the Lesche to discuss his recent book The Ancient Shore (Harvard University Press 2024), winner of the American Historical…
