With sail came trade—and with trade came connection between cultures. When did that begin in the West? In this episode we go to ancient Mesopotamia, the Levant, Egypt, and the islands of the Mediterranean; we learn about the Phoenicians (who didn’t call themselves Phoenicians); we set sail with Odysseus; and Carthage meets Rome. Josephine Quinn, the first woman to hold the distinguished Professorship of Ancient History at Cambridge University, joins host Jonathan Bate to talk about the mariti...
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With sail came trade—and with trade came connection between cultures. When did that begin in the West? In this episode we go to ancient Mesopotamia, the Levant, Egypt, and the islands of the Mediterranean; we learn about the Phoenicians (who didn’t call themselves Phoenicians); we set sail with Odysseus; and Carthage meets Rome. Josephine Quinn, the first woman to hold the distinguished Professorship of Ancient History at Cambridge University, joins host Jonathan Bate to talk about the mariti...
What are the Blue Humanities and who invented the term?
Blue Humanities
43 minutes
1 year ago
What are the Blue Humanities and who invented the term?
From Homer's Odyssey to Shakespeare's tempestuous late plays to Melville's Moby Dick to recent writings by authors immersed in the Indian and Pacific oceans, literature has again and again gone down to the sea, to - in the words of poet John Masefield - "the lonely sea and the sky." But what can this vast body of watery wisdom teach us in times of environmental crisis and fragile oceanic ecosystems? That's the question asked by the emerging field of Blue Humanities. In the inaugural episode o...
Blue Humanities
With sail came trade—and with trade came connection between cultures. When did that begin in the West? In this episode we go to ancient Mesopotamia, the Levant, Egypt, and the islands of the Mediterranean; we learn about the Phoenicians (who didn’t call themselves Phoenicians); we set sail with Odysseus; and Carthage meets Rome. Josephine Quinn, the first woman to hold the distinguished Professorship of Ancient History at Cambridge University, joins host Jonathan Bate to talk about the mariti...
