Lectures and Podcasts
Check out this collection of online lectures and podcasts. Delivered by academics from the Classics Faculty at Cambridge, these lectures, talks and radio interviews, have been drawn from all over the internet.
Click on the Full List of Lectures and Talks box too see the talks organised by category.
Full List of Lectures and Talks
Lectures and Videos List
Ancient Literature
Women in the ancient world with particular reference to Greek tragedy by Rosanna Omitowojou
Filling the Gaps' CA Predisential Lecture (Robin Osborne)
Pax Romana (C. Kelly, T. Holland, GM Tamás, A. Kennedy)
Mistaken Identities: How to Identify a Roman Emperor (Mary Beard)
The arts of imitation in Latin prose (Christopher Whitton)
Nero and the Art of Dissolution (Caroline Vout)
Swears, Bears and Mother-in-laws: Forbidden Words (James Clackson)
How to Be an Atheist — The Ancient Greek Way (Tim Whitmarsh)
Western Blinders (Simon Goldhill)
The Gifford Lectures
The Gifford Lectures were delivered by Professor Mary Beard in May 2019 at the University of Edinburgh. The Gifford Lectures have been delivered every year since 1888. Each year the university chooses an international scholar to deliver this prestigious lecture.
1. Introduction: Murderous Games - The Gifford Lectures (Mary Beard)
2. Whiteness - The Gifford Lectures (Mary Beard)
3. Lucretia and the politics of sexual violence - The Gifford Lectures (Mary Beard)
4. Them and us - The Gifford Lectures (Mary Beard)
5. Tyranny and Democracy - The Gifford Lectures (Mary Beard)
6. Classical Civilsation - The Gifford Lectures (Mary Beard)
In Our Time is a live BBC radio discussion series exploring a wide variety of historical topics, presented by Melvyn Bragg, since 15 October 1998. This collection of soundclips about the ancient world fetures members of the Cambridge Classcis Faculty.
Socrates - In Our Time BBCR4 (Angie Hobbs, David Sedley, Paul Millett)
Horace - In Our Time BBCR4 (Emily Gowers, William Fitzgerald, Ellen O'Gorman)
Aristotle's Biology - In Our Time BBCR4 (Armand Leroi, Myrto Hatzimichali, Sophia Connell)
Plato's Republic - In Our Time BBCR4 (Angie Hobbs, MM McCabe, James Warren)
Plato's Symposium - In Our Time BBCR4 (Angie Hobbs, Richard Hunter, Frisbee Sheffield)
Epicureanism - In Our Time BBCR4 (Angie Hobbs, David Sedley and James Warren)
A World of Make-Believe (Nigel Spivey)
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from Ancient Rome to Salvador Dali (Mary Beard)
Urban Highlights (Martin Millett)
Arthur Evans, the Ashmolean, and the display of Minoan Crete (Yannis Galanakis)
From sexual pursuit to rape: sexual violence in Athenian painted pottery (Robin Osborne)
