Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share The Legacy of the Trojan War
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
The Legacy of the Trojan War
Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city in Asia still cast such a long shadow? Novelist and classics expert Natalie Haynes, Alev Scott author of Ottoman Odyssey, archaeologist Naoíse Mac Sweeney and medievalist Hetta Howes join Rana Mitter to share new perspectives on the conflict immortalised in Homer's Iliad as the British Museum opens an exhibition dedicated to Troy.
Troy: Myth and Reality runs at the British Museum in London from November 21st to 8th March 2020.
Natalie Haynes is the author of novels which retell Greek myths including The Amber Fury, the Children of Jocasta and A Thousand Ships: This is the Woman's War.
Hetta Howes teaches medieval literature at City University and is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to put research on radio.
Alev Scott is the author of Ottoman Odyssey and Turkish Awakening.
Naoíse Mac Sweeney is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 4
4.3
286286 ratings
Why do the legendary walls of a Bronze Age city in Asia still cast such a long shadow? Novelist and classics expert Natalie Haynes, Alev Scott author of Ottoman Odyssey, archaeologist Naoíse Mac Sweeney and medievalist Hetta Howes join Rana Mitter to share new perspectives on the conflict immortalised in Homer's Iliad as the British Museum opens an exhibition dedicated to Troy.
Troy: Myth and Reality runs at the British Museum in London from November 21st to 8th March 2020.
Natalie Haynes is the author of novels which retell Greek myths including The Amber Fury, the Children of Jocasta and A Thousand Ships: This is the Woman's War.
Hetta Howes teaches medieval literature at City University and is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to put research on radio.
Alev Scott is the author of Ottoman Odyssey and Turkish Awakening.
Naoíse Mac Sweeney is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
More shows like Free Thinking
View all
Global News Podcast
7,639 Listeners
The LRB Podcast
301 Listeners
The Archers
1,080 Listeners
Newshour
1,046 Listeners
In Our Time
5,520 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,799 Listeners
In Our Time: Culture
604 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,763 Listeners
Learning English Conversations
1,049 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
1,920 Listeners
Great Lives
488 Listeners
Backlisted
582 Listeners
London Review Bookshop Podcast
135 Listeners
Front Row
128 Listeners
Start the Week
164 Listeners
Bookclub
244 Listeners
The TLS Podcast
182 Listeners
The Week in Art
210 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,177 Listeners
The Bomb
1,002 Listeners
A brush with...
146 Listeners
This Cultural Life
119 Listeners
Close Readings
86 Listeners
Past Present Future
328 Listeners