On teaching race and ethnicity in high school and college classrooms and the challenges.

Discussion of the racist backlash against the casting of a Black actor as Achilles in BBC’s Troy: Fall of a City.

Discussion of reception of ancient Hippocratic environmental theory by Smithsonian anthropologist Otis Mason in his technogeography theory of human cultural development.

This chapter provides a series of case studies that explore different ways Archaic and Classical Greeks conceptualized human diversity (modern race and/or ethnicity) in relation to environment, in particular, the land. It explores three inter-related approaches the Greeks took towards understanding this relationship: myths of metals, autochthony,…[Read more]

Explores the connections between imperialism, language about the courts, and geographic references within Aeschylus Eumenides, the third play of the Oresteia trilogy.

A re-assessment of what we know about women known as hetairai in Classical Greece within the context of the elite women from the 6th and early 5th centuries BCE.