General Resources

Omnibus Magazine

Issue 2. “Who’s Afraid of Euripides’ Medea” by John Gould

Issue 8. “Euripides the Psychologist” by Bernard Knox

Issue 25. “Persia: How to Run a Great Persian Empire” by Amelie Kuhrt

Issue 27. “The worst moment in Athenian history” by Tim Ryder

Issue 28. “A taste for the unacceptable” by John Wilkins

Issue 31. “Going ethnic in Greece” by Jonathan Hall

Issue 32. “How Herodotus believed in oracles” by Tom Harrison

Issue 34. “Herodotus and the English Patient” by Tom Harrison

Issue 35. “Euripides’ Medea, A Scorned Woman” by James Morwood

Issue 42. “All too Greek? Herodotus on the Ionian revolt” by Hugh Bowden

Issue 45. “Of myths and men: the ancient Olympics” by Jason König

Issue 46. “Classics and Politics” by Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis

Issue 53. “Are Greek historians biased in their presentation of the enemy?” by Pranav Sood

Issue 58. “To the victor the spoils: the cunning of Themistocles” by Ralph Anderson

Issue 58. “Conquering Greece: A Persian perspective” by Johannes Haubold

Issue 64. “Salamis: the battle that saved western civilisation?” by Paul Cartledge

Issue 69. “Luxury vs. poverty? Herodotus’ view of the Persian Wars” by Tim Rood

Issue 70. “Herodotus and the Persian Wars: memory, recrimination and the writing of history” by Rosalind Thomas

Podcasts

In Our Time

“The Battle of Salamis” broadcast 23/3/17 with Llewellyn-Jones, Allen, and Cartledge

“The Amazons” broadcast 11/4/13 with Cartledge, Franceschini, and Vout

“The Trojan War” broadcast 31/3/12 with Hall, Adams, and Sherratt

“Thermopylae” broadcast 5/2/04 with Holland, Goldhill, and Hall

Historical Association

Introduction to the Persian Empire

Life in Ancient Persia

Classics Confidential

A Revolutionary “Persians”, with Gonda Van Steen

Videos

Thermopylae

Persepolis

Medea

The Invention of the Barbarian - Hall

The Invention of the Barbarian - Part 1: an excellent, accessible overview of the key ideas behind the course. 

The Invention of the Barbarian - Part 2: an inspiring presentation on the ideas on barbarians presented in tragedy. This is also useful for modern scholarship quotes.

Museums

The British Museum

A virtual walkthrough of the British Museum is available here.

Scroll back up to the top of this page to download a description of some of the rooms in the museum.