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Sea journeys in classical times

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Edith Hall and Sir Barry Cunliffe consider the role of the sea in Greek myth and legend.

Edith Hall and Sir Barry Cunliffe consider epic sea journeys in history and the role of the sea in Greek myth and legend and in Viking tales. Rana Mitter hosts.

Classicists Edith Hall and Barry Cunliffe explore the importance of the sea in the classical world in a discussion hosted by Rana Mitter.   

The Ancient Greeks often preferred to take sea journeys rather than risk encounters with brigands and travelling through mountain passes inland and colonised all round the Black Sea and Mediterranean. In the writings of Xenophon and Homer, Greek heroes show skills at navigating and fighting on sea and the sea shore is a place people go to think. 

Sir Barry Cunliffe is Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford and the author of books including Facing the Ocean - the Atlantic  and its peoples; Europe Between the Oceans; By Steppe, Desert and Ocean - the Birth of Eurasia. 
Edith Hall is Professor in the Department of Classics and Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College, London.  Her books include Introducing The Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind; Aristotle's Way - How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Mind; A People's History of Classics.   
You can find her discussing her campaign for schools across the UK to teach classics in a Free Thinking discussion called Rethinking the Curriculum https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08hq0ht

 
Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Proms on 28 July 2017.

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