It's the Ancient On History Hit.

I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast, well first of all, Happy Boxing Day.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and I know you're now itching to get back to

Ancient's podcast so it's great that you're here because we got a good topic today.

We're talking all about race and identity, race and ethnicity in the Ancient Greek

novel and in particular we're focusing in on one particular novel and that is Heliodorus'

e Theopica.

Now this is a really remarkable piece of work especially when looking at race and identity

in the Ancient Greek novel in the Roman Empire, in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first

few centuries AD and joining me to explain why I was delighted to get on the podcast

Dr. May Muzier.

May is the public engagement officer at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford.

She's done a lot of work around the Ancient Greek novel, this is one of her great passions

of Ancient history but she also does work elsewhere in Ancient and Medieval history.

She's done work bringing to the fore ancient and medieval manuscripts from Ethiopia and

Eritrea bringing their more into the light particularly those at the Bodleian libraries

and she's also done a lot of work around the outreach of classics, classics in communities,

bringing subjects such as Latin, Ancient Greek and classical civilization to more schools

in the UK.

May was absolutely wonderful to get on the podcast, she's so lovely to talk to and without

further ado, here she is to talk all about race and identity in the Ancient Greek novel.

May, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the podcast today.

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