Arve, and welcome to Emperor of Rome, a podcast looking at the rulers of the ancient Roman Empire.

I'm your host Matt Smith, with me as always is Dr. R. Rianna Evans, a lecturer in ancient Mediterranean studies at Lottrobe University.

And now, for something completely different, questions from you, answered by us.

Hello, Rianen.

Hi Matt.

So we're going to do a quick Q&A podcast today.

Yes, this is all a bit up close and personal.

Yeah, yeah.

Quotation fingers around the quick, most likely.

So we put a call out on the podcast and on Facebook as well, asking for questions from our listeners and some of you

replied so thank you very much and our first question today is from Morgan Bergstrom

in Juneau Alaska and I looked it you know do do know do know they go like the goddess like the goddess I looked

it's like a little sliver of land just a little bit of the coast that is right

next to Canada so it's like Alaska's gone I want

that bit extra of the coast. So anyway Morgan asks where we're from. I haven't figured out yet if you are Australian or English.

And I can see why people might have a bit of a question mark over that because we've both got different accents, but we're from we're living in Melbourne, Australia.

I'm from the northern New South Wales part of Australia, but now live in Melbourne and Rianen.

I'm definitely not English, but I'm not Australian either. I'm from Wales and I have travelled around a bit so my accent's a bit confused. I've lived in the US and I've lived in Australia for 15 years.

You don't want to rant about not being English?

Asking someone who's Welsh if they're English is a huge insult, I'm afraid.

But I have to admit, I haven't got a Welsh accent anymore so it's understandable.

The next question comes from Kalista Johnson in Seattle, Washington. How did Dr Evans first become interested in classical studies?

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