Want to enhance your growth as a citizen of the world? Ask timeless big-picture questions while learning marketable skills? Expand and unlearn what you thought you knew about Ancient Greece and Rome? Draw connections to the past in your field of study? Whether you are minoring in Classical Studies, or taking courses to expand your view …
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Meeting 11: In which Homer continues to not understand the basics of childbearing, and Hera continues to be the stepmother from hell. This episode of Mythology Pitch Meetings brought to you by CLAS-C 210 Ancient Medicine and Modern Terminology. Have you ever wondered how your favorite Classical Myths came to be? This is absolutely not …
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Episode 72: In which the mortals learn the Parthenon sculptures have blue paint, and the gods learn the mortals didn’t already know that. This episode of Real Housewives of Mt. Olympus brought to you by the latest archaeological news on CNN.com and SmithsonianMagazine.com – and by CLAS-C 386 Greek History. IRIS, GODDESS OF THE RAINBOW …
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Episode 71: In which a headless statue in Cleveland throws the gods and mortals for a loop, and a killer of Christians takes all the credit. This episode of Real Housewives of Mt. Olympus brought to you by the latest archaeological news on CNN.com – and by CLAS-C 414 Art and Archaeology of the Roman …
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This episode of Julius Caesar Explains brought to you by CLAS-C 102 Roman Culture, coming up next in Spring 2024, online asynchronous. Welcome back to Julius Caesar Explains, our series where we summon Julius Caesar’s spirit from Mt. Olympus to answer our questions about Ancient Rome. Caesar, it’s good to have you with us. DIVINE …
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Recently Dr. Thill was working in her dark cave of academia, having brilliant thoughts about people who have been dead for 1800 years, when she received an email from IU-Indianapolis Social Media. This email informed her that there was a huge hot trend on social media about the Roman Empire, and the IU-Indianapolis Social Media …
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Episode 70: In which Roma learns she’s the hottest thing on TikTok (but not what TikTok is), and Minerva, Mars, and Britannia are jealous. This episode of Real Housewives of Mt. Olympus brought to you by the latest archaeological news on CNN.com – and by CLAS-C 102 Roman Culture. MINERVA, ROMAN GODDESS OF STRATEGY: Roma! …
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Want to enhance your growth as a citizen of the world? Ask timeless big-picture questions while learning marketable skills? Expand and unlearn what you thought you knew about Ancient Greece and Rome? Draw connections to the past in your field of study? Whether you are minoring in Classical Studies, or taking courses to expand your view …
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Want to enhance your growth as a citizen of the world? Ask timeless big-picture questions while learning marketable skills? Expand and unlearn what you thought you knew about Ancient Greece and Rome? Draw connections to the past in your field of study? Whether you are minoring in Classical Studies, or taking courses to expand your view …
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Episode 69: In which the architects of the Parthenon and Stonehenge discuss new shapes and new chauvinistic cultural assumptions. This episode of Real Housewives of Hades (a Mt. Olympus spin-off) brought to you by the latest archaeological news on CNN.com and SmithsonianMagazine.com – and by our upcoming archaeological lecture on September 25. [SETTING: Underworld Club …
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When you think of “kites,” do you think of Mary Poppins, because you spent way too much time on Disney+ during COVID? Did you know “kites” can also refer to large-scale architectural constructions, engineered by hunters 8,000 years ago to funnel animals together for the slaughter? These sort of structures, found from the Middle East …
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