Let's Dig Deeper

Classical archaeologist and etruscologist Hampus Olsson joins this special episode of Let's Dig Deeper, to do a deep-dive on the Etruscan civilisation and its origins.

Recorded at the Danish Institute in Rome, this episode takes a look at the early history of the Etruscans, their relationship with Rome and their civil structure. How did Etruscan society function, and how did the Etruscan people integrate into the Roman Empire?

These are some of the questions we seek to answer today!

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Welcome to the first episode of Let's Dig Deeper Season 3!

We're kicking off this season with a series of special episodes - The Rome Run. This is a miniseries of 5 episodes that I recorded this summer when I stayed at the Danish Institute in Rome.

This first episode covers the topic of the Roman baths and bathing culture within the empire. To enlighten me, I teamed up with Jens Koehler, classical archaeologist and adjunct assistant professor at John Cabot University. Jens is also part of the faculty at the American University in Rome.

If you're curious about the Roman Baths after listening to this episode, here are some useful links:

The Frontinus Society: https://www.frontinus.de/en/

Healing Spas in Antiquity: https://healingspasinantiquity.es/

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Let's Dig Deeper celebrates its very first birthday with a special anniversary episode!

In honor of the occasion, I'm sharing the story of how Let's Dig Deeper podcast came to be and what I've learned during this year of production. There's also a small q&a where I answer some of the things you guys were curious about over on Instagram.

I really hope you enjoy this episode, and thank you for tuning into this show - especially if you've been here the whole year! Next Saturday I'm launching the first episode of The Rome Run. A series of special episodes I got to record this summer when I stayed at the Danish Institute in Rome. More on that next week :)

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Dr. Joe Roe and Dr. Tobias Richter join Let's Dig Deeper for a talk about the ancient origins of farming.

How did humanity go from hunter-gatherers, to tilling the soil? And was that even a linear series of events?

And can we use patterns of ancient climate change to learn about future changes?

Find out in this episode!

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Christina Videbech, postdoc at the university of Bergen in Norway and co-author of the book Fire of The Mind, joins Let's Dig Deeper podcast.

In this episode, we take a closer look at mental illness and insanity in ancient Rome.

Did the Romans do therapy? Were Nero and Caligula really insane, or just insanely misunderstood? And could it be that Emperor Tiberius wasn't a monster, but just autistic?

These are some of the questions we tackle in this episode!

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Professor Eva Andersson Strand and associate professor Elsa Yvanez from the University of Copenhagen join Let's Dig Deeper this week to teach us about textile archaeology.

How much fabric do we have preserved from the past? How did ancient people produce, trade and use textiles? Tune in now for answers to these questions and many more.

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Zoo-archaeologists Luise Ørsted Brandt and Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen star on this episode of Let's Dig Deeper to answer crucial questions such as:

Do archaeologists lick bones?

What can we learn from studying animal remains of the past?

And can we predict the future by looking at earlier climate and migration patterns?

Together, we take a closer look at what zooarchaeology can teach us and how working with faunal remains can paint a new picture of the past.

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Annette Rathje, lector emerita at the University of Copenhagen joins this episode of Let's Dig Deeper to tell us all about the Etruscans - who were they, what was their history and what did they leave behind for us?

Tune in to the full episode now and hear more about:

• Who lived in Italy before the Romans
• Why the Etruscans built intricate tomb networks
• What Etruscan customs and traditions survived after the fall of their cities

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Kristine Bülow Clausen, ph.D and scholar of classical archaeology guests Let's Dig Deeper to talk about the ancient superpowers of Rome and Egypt.

After the Battle of Actium, Egypt became a Roman province - but what was the relationship between the two ancient empires like before that?

And how did that dynamic evolve over time?

Kristine Bülow Clausen is a scholar and expert, with a special focus on Egypt outside of Egypt, and the way Rome and Egypt interacted around the fall of the Roman Republic and during the Flavian dynasty.

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Thomas Heine Nielsen and Marcel Lysgaard Lech, classical philologists, join this episode of Let's Dig Deeper to talk about sport in antiquity. We'll learn:

What were the original sports at the ancient Olympics?

Why did the ancient Greeks hold funeral games, and what can we learn about these games from ancient texts?

So tune in to the full episode now.

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