For two thousand years, study of ancient Greece and Rome has been at the centre of Western education. Khameleon Classics is the podcast that asks why. In each episode, host Shivaike Shah speaks with an expert in the field about some of the most urgent questions facing the study of Classics. Together, they uncover the complicated legacy of Greece and Rome in the modern world.
Listen to all episodes and find relevant reading materials on the Khameleon Productions website: https://www.khameleonproductions.org/khameleon-classics (https://www.khameleonproductions.org/khameleon-classics)
The Making of Khameleon Classics, with Shivaike Shah
In the final episode of Khameleon Classics, host Shivaike Shah and assistant producer Malin Hay look behind the scenes at the making of the show, and discuss how a project that was conceived as a five-episode miniseries on Medea ended up becoming thirty episodes covering everything from ancient Egypt to Reconstruction-era America and beyond.
16 Jan 2023
Statues Then and Now, with Verity Platt
In the last decade, public statues have become a focal point for debates about the remembrance and commemoration of history. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, Edward Colston in Bristol, and Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College, Oxford: do statues of these figures remind us of their harmful legacies, or valorise them in spite of them? And how do our interpretations and misinterpretations of classical sculpture inform the style and significance of public statuary in the modern day? Shivaike Shah speaks to Verity Platt, Professor of Classics and History of Art at Cornell University, about what we get wrong about classical statues, and about the history of iconoclasm in Ancient Greece and Rome.
To find out more about this topic, check out the reading list on our website: https://www.khameleonproductions.org/statues-then-and-now
9 Jan 2023
Classics and Du Bois, with Mathias Hanses
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was one of the foremost thinkers and writers about race in the period directly after Reconstruction. He was also a professor of Classics who engaged closely with a number of Greek and Roman writers, including Cicero, Aristotle and Plato. Shivaike Shah speaks to Dr Mathias Hanses, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, about his characterisation of Du Bois as a ‘Black Cicero’. What light does Du Bois shed on Cicero’s relationship with race in orations like Pro Archia Poeta? And how does an acknowledgement of Du Bois’s engagement with the Classics – and of the limitations of his approach to Black empowerment – reposition us in relation to the field today?
To find out more about this topic, check out the reading list on our website: https://www.khameleonproductions.org/khameleon-classics/classics- (https://www.khameleonproductions.org/khameleon-classics/classics-beyond-whiteness)and-dubois
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