Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

Writer 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 October with the University of New Orleans Press. Helen is also a writing coach who works with writers in all genres, including academics. Helen's website: link here Concepts mentioned Psychic Distance (John Gardner in The Art of Fiction): Framework mapping the five levels of narrative intimacy between the ...

Richard 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") commentary series. Ancient texts Homer, Odyssey (general) and Iliad (esp. Book 9 and Book 23) Aristophanes, Frogs Plato /Platonic eschatological accounts/underworlds, esp. the Myth of Er in in Republic 10 Timon of Phlius (Hellenistic philosopher)Vergil, AeneidSeneca, MedeaLucian, Dialogue...

Andrej 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 with Mustafa Adak (Professor of Greek Language and Literature, University of Akdeniz) and Christian Marek (University of Zurich), Andrej has co-authored a monograph with edition, commentary, and interpretative essays on the inscription (publication details TBD). Ankara University press release announcing the discover...

Naoise 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 here. The first major output is a volume titled Local Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World (c.1200-550 BCE), edited by MIGMAG team members Naoíse Mac Sweeney, Jana Mokrišová, and Francesco Quondam. Naoise refers briefly to Euripides' tragedy Ion in the episode. The book she recommends at th...

Mirjam 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 University) press. For more on Katerina Evangelatou's 2015 production of Rhesus, as part of the Epidaurus-Athens Theatre Festival, see this article by Scott Andrew Cally in Didascalia. Ancient works Homer, Odyssey: Penelope's dream in Book 19Aeschylus, Libation Bearers (Clytemnestra's dream)Aristophanes, Was...