
Ancient Office Hours
Hosted by Lexie · Lexie Henning
4.8from 64 ratings
- 189
- Episodes
- 25
- Transcribed
- 64
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Ancient Office Hours
Join Lexie Henning as she chats with thought leaders in academia and the entertainment industry about how they got into their field, their current work, and how they connect with the past. Together they strive to connect modern societies to ancient worlds, explore antiquity via contemporary storytelling, and introduce a wider audience to the various ways history and mythology influences popular culture around the world. Tune in for intimate conversations with established top scholars, current postgrads, early career academics, and professionals in their respective fields as their wisdom and advice has never been more accessible! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Lexie Henning
- Category
- education · history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 26 Oct 2020
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
25 of 189 episodes have a transcript.

14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 151 - Dr. Tori Lee

30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 150 - Dr. Jana Matuszak

16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 149 - Dr. Ben Angell
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Episode 151 - Dr. Tori Lee
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Oh, interesting. Huh. I don't know if it's because of living in the times we are, but I've just spent a lot of time thinking about like self-censoring or not self-censoring. Yeah, imagine. So there's like a weird comfort, I guess, in knowing that like the ancient Romans were doing it too, when we're also thinking about how much to or to not do that. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Creates a link there. But yeah, you're, you're, you're, other book project that you're working on. Tell us all a little more about that, please. It sounds really interesting. Yeah, thanks. So I'm working on pastoral literature, which is literature about the countryside and sort of the contrast to the city, which is seen as full of work and toil and danger. […]
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- Tori Lee
- Jana Matuszak
- Ben Angell
- Constantine Karathanasis
- Melissa Funke
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 44 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 20 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100
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- 90
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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