Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Neville Morley

Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter

3 episodes

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  1. Virgil's Georgics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life composed in 29BC after a civil war, when questions of land ownership were contested.

    18 May 2023

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    Also featuring: Katharine Earnshaw, Diana Spencer

     
  2. Thucydides

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Greek historian Thucydides and his work entitled The History of the Peloponnesian War.

    29 January 2015

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    Also featuring: Paul Cartledge, Katherine Harloe