
Neville Morley
Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter
3 episodes
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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
Also featuring: Katharine Earnshaw, Diana Spencer
Thucydides
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Greek historian Thucydides and his work entitled The History of the Peloponnesian War.
29 January 2015
Also featuring: Paul Cartledge, Katherine Harloe