Guests

Athena Kirk received her PhD at University of California, Berkeley. She came to Cornell in 2014 after having held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the intersections between literature and epigraphy and the mater...

Melissanthi Mahut is a Greek-Canadian actress. She attended the National Theatre of Greece Drama School and later went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She is known for playing Kassandra in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (2018), Calliope in The Sandman (2022), and Mita Xenakis in ...

Michael Antonakos has been performing since the age of seven. He is a professional actor in film, television, theatre, voice work and video games. He began his career focusing on film and television, but his career path shifted when he landed his first video game audition with Lord Of the Rings: The...

Astrid Van Oyen is Professor in Archaeology at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Roman Italy and the Western provinces, with a particular interest in the socio-economic history of non-elites, rural economies, and human-thing relations. She is author of How Thing...

Darby McDevitt is a game developer and writer, best known for his work on the Assassin’s Creed series. With a diverse professional profile spanning more than a decade, he has worked as a writer, film maker, musician, and game designer. McDevitt has been the narrative director or script writer for bo...

Alex Dressler is committed to the Greek and Roman classics as an evolving canon of texts and methods rooted in the European tradition but aimed at redefining the modern reader’s practical sense of art and life, past and present, and politics and personal flourishing. Focusing on the Roman world, pub...

Amanda is a podcaster, business builder, and devoted plant parent. She runs Multitude, an independent podcast collective and consultancy based in New York City. Multitude produces original shows, publishes free resources for podcasters, and helps clients of all sizes create, market, and grow great s...

Jake Nabel is the Tombros Early Career Professor of Classical Studies and an Assistant Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Jake is a historian of pre-Islamic Iran, ancient Rome, and the interaction between the two. His book, The Arsacids of Rome: M...

Daniel T. Potts received his AB (1975) and PhD (1980) in Anthropology from Harvard, specializing in Near Eastern archaeology. He taught previously at the Freie Universität Berlin (1981-86), the University of Copenhagen (1980-81, 1986-1991) and the University of Sydney (1991-2012) where he held the E...

Michael Hoffen is the youngest-ever recipient of the annual Emerson Prize, awarded by the Concord Review for outstanding promise in history. While still in middle school he was introduced to the joys of translating ancient texts and never looked back. During the pandemic, Michael decided to embark o...

Sabrina C. Higgins is an Assistant Professor cross-appointed between the Departments of Global Humanities and Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. She completed her Ph.D. in Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, with a focus on the material evidence for the cult of the Virgin Mary in Lat...

Chelsea Gardner is a Classical Archaeologist and Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research is centered around archaeological exploration in southern Greece, and her fieldwork is in the Mani peninsula, just south of ancient...