Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

Johanna Hanink

In Greek antiquity a lesche (λέσχη) was a spot to hang out and chat. Here Brown University professor Johanna Hanink hosts conversations with fellow Hellenists about their latest work in the field.

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Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

Episodes (43)

Mar 25th Seal-Impressions (typoi) and Ancient Image Making
Mar 11th Time and Ancient Textiles
Feb 25th The Doloneia (Iliad Book 10)

Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

Mar 25, 2026
51 minutes
35 MB

Art historian Verity Platt joins me in the Lesche to discuss her much-anticipated new book Epistemic Impressions: Making and Mediating Classical Art and Text (Oxford 2026). On May 11, the Queen Mary University of London Imagination Research Network will be hosting a "launch symposium" to celebrate the book's publication. Information and tickets are available here. The novel that Verity recommends at the end of the podcast is When the Museum is Closed, by Emi Yagi. Read an excerpt here, in Yuki Tejima's translation. Ancient sources Dionysius of Halicarnassus, various treatises (see Verity's...

Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

Seal-Impressions (typoi) and Ancient Image Making

Johanna Hanink

00:00 -50:52