Hi, thanks for tuning in to ancient Greece, declassified.

Episode 48, time traveling to the ancient world.

If you could travel back in time and meet one ancient historical figure, who would you want to meet?

That is a completely non-serious and unscholarly question.

But it's a really fun one, and it's one I've often thought about.

Speaking of time travel, I can't believe that it's been over five years since I started

this podcast back when I was in grad school, still trying to finish my PhD while also completing

teaching requirements. And at the same time, seeing the almost non-existent job prospects in my

discipline and realizing I needed to forge a new path for myself, hence the podcast.

But yeah, five years, man, time travels fast.

And the show has evolved so much over that period.

At least that's how I feel about it.

But one thing I envisioned from the beginning for this podcast,

and one thing I planned out was that there were a few questions that I wanted

to ask all of my guests, which wouldn't be part of their individual interviews, but I would

then do compilations later of all the answers together, to see the kind of wide variety of

interests, opinions, and approaches that scholars have about the ancient world. And so one of those questions I asked all my guests, and there were a few that I forgot,

or we didn't have time, you know, but most of them I got, was,

if you could ride a time machine back to antiquity, who would you meet and why?

And so for this episode, I give you 33 scholars answering that question.

Now I think the answers are overall really interesting, some of them are hilarious, and

you know for those of you who have been following the show from the beginning, this could

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