You're going to be. So, The Hello I'm Ryan Stitt and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece. We are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming for another special guest

episode today.

This is the sixth episode in a series where I converse with classicists about either books or

articles that they have published, their current research interests,

or just unique classes and topics that they are teaching and exploring further.

In today's special guest episode, I am joined by Dr. Liz Goyne, Senior Lecture at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the United Kingdom.

Her primary teaching and research areas focus on the intersections between Roman social history, Latin literature, and ancient philosophy,

particularly Seneca the Younger and his approach to Stoicism and the family unit.

This research led her to publish her book, The Ethics of the Family in Seneca.

But Dr. Goyne also has a strong interest in classical reception,

particularly the history of women as professional academic classicists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

as well as the classics and popular media, such as film, television, and young adult fiction.

It's that last bit that will be the focus of today's episode as Dr

Goyne and I discuss her forthcoming book titled Tracking Classical Monsters and Popular Culture.

This work is the first in-depth study on classical reception

and monsters in Anglo-American popular culture from the 1950s to the present day.

Throughout the book she reveals the trends behind how we have used

the monsters and develops a broad theory of the ancient monster and its life after

antiquity, investigating its relation to gender, genre, and space, to explore what it is that keeps

drawing us back to these mythical beasts and why they have remained such a powerful

presence in our shared cultural imagination. Specifically, her book takes us through a

comprehensive tour of monsters on film and television, from the much-loved

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