Friend of the podcast Dr. Rhiannon Garth Jones returns to discuss the time period that some scholars refer to as “The First Millennium”. This period covers … And now I’m using a word to define itself, so instead of that, let me just say that it’s the period from 1 CE to 1000 CE. During the episode, we discuss what the time period is, what historians who study it look at and the common threads that exist between societies that we think of as separate and distinct.
The episode touches on a lot of topics including English Premier League football, the narrow focus of Antiquity on Greece and Rome at the exclusion of the rest of the Mediterranean, Late Antiquity, Islamic kingdoms and empires and their connections to both Antiquity and to Late Antiquity. As you should know by now from listening to the podcast, there are a lot more similarities between “different” peoples and civilizations than we might think. We explore those similarities in this episode including how many societies expressed power by channelling the Roman state.
Your reading assignments include the graphic novel Squire, Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration and The White Pedestal.
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