Ancient History Podcast

AH22 - What is Ancient History? With Walter Scheidel

October 1, 2025·1h 3m
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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.

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