AH22 - What is Ancient History? With Walter Scheidel

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Walter Scheidel discussing the evolution and future of ancient history studies.

In this episode of the podcast, we speak to Walter Scheidel, the most cited Roman historian in an active faculty position, about the history of the study of ancient Greece and Rome, how this area of study came to mean 'ancient history', and what the future of the subject looks like.

People in this episode

Host: Owain Williams

Guest: Walter Scheidel

Topics covered

• ancient history
• Roman history
• study of ancient Greece
• future of history
• historical methodology

Keywords

• ancient history
• Walter Scheidel
• Roman historian
• Greece
• Rome
• historical study
• future of history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient history

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