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We're back with Han for Part 2 where we chat ancient pets, travel tips for Nîmes, working with Jimmy Carr, more about Tyche and Han's advice for budding content creators. Stay tuned to find out who will be revealed as our Spring '24 Expert...!



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Katrina sits down for a chat with the winner of the CA's recent Creative Writing Competition, held in partnership with Bloomsbury Publishing, to discuss sixteen year old Cait's winning story 'In the Bad Times' and how she was inspired by Ovid, Seamus Heaney and her Irish heritage.



You can read all of the shortlisted entries here

Entries for the CA Poetry Competition are open until Friday 5 April

We welcome Hannah Parker, better known as @historical_han, a TikTokker with over 26m likes, to the podcast as our inaugural Expert in Residence. In Part 1 of our Q&A with Han we discuss her Masters' thesis, her cat's imperial connections, the many guises of the goddess Tyche, which books she'd recommend and why Sparta is such a magical place. Stay tuned for Part 2 and click here to ask Han your questions!

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In this special bonus episode, we're joined by Jennifer Saint, former English teacher turned bestselling novelist whose debut novel Ariadne took the world by storm and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year Award in 2021.



Since then, she's followed up with Elektra and, most recently, Atalanta, two vivid and unique reworkings of ancient stories and it was fascinating to chat to Jenny about her early interest in these characters, her transition from scholar to teacher to writer, her childhood love for Cyprus and how the ironing board can bring inspiration!



In this series, we meet guests from all walks of life, fascinating people with a connection to classics who lead fascinating lives and we discuss where studying the past can take you; what classicists bring to the workplace (and the world!); how to forge your own path; and the resonance of the ⁠⁠#ancientworld⁠⁠.



Share your own personal story about ⁠#classics⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠#careers⁠⁠ and find us at @theclassicalpod on Instagram or Threads.

Transcript of this episode⁠ available here⁠.



Show Notes

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Amanda Dylina Morse is a public health researcher, lecturer, and PhD student at Queen's University, Belfast. She studied her undergraduate degree in Classical Studies and Ancient History at the University of Washington before embarking upon a Master's in Public Health. She then became a surveillance epidemiologist leading and supporting investigations using emergency department, hospitalisation, and outpatient data in the United States.



In this episode, we discover how the ancient world has been a thread throughout her varied career, her take on the differences between life in the US, UK and Ireland, and why she'd dress like Livia, kill Theseus, and always make sure the meat at a Roman banquet was fully cooked!



In this series, we meet guests from all walks of life, fascinating people with a connection to classics who lead fascinating lives and we discuss where studying the past can take you; what classicists bring to the workplace (and the world!); how to forge your own path; and the resonance of the ⁠#ancientworld⁠.



Share your own personal story about #classics⁠ and ⁠#careers⁠ and find us at @theclassicalpod on Instagram or Threads.

Transcript of this episode available here.



Show Notes

Follow Amanda on LinkedIn or Instagram

Join the Classical Association to access discounts, events and more

More info and enter the CA's Young Speaker Competition here

Watch the CA's Anniversary Film feat. a host of famous faces!

Follow the CA on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

And find out more at classicalassociation.org

Dr George Maher, actuary, Roman economist and honorary treasurer of the Classical Association discuss his twofold career, what the Romans would have made of Bitcoin, life on a Roman frontier, and gives us a crash course in ancient economics 101 - this is such an interesting conversation and we hope you enjoy Episode 7 of Classics and Careers!



A former Partner at Tillinghast-Towers Perrin, the international firm of actuaries and risk management consultants, George is the author of Pugnare. Economic Success and Failure which uses the Roman Empire as a parable for our times and was listed by The Week magazine as one of the top ten business books of 2021. George studied in Dublin, at Birkbeck College London and King's College London for a number of degrees, as you will hear. He is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and joined the CA in 2023.



In this series, we meet guests from all walks of life, fascinating people with a connection to classics who lead fascinating lives and we discuss where studying the past can take you; what classicists bring to the workplace (and the world!); how to forge your own path; and the resonance of the ⁠#ancientworld⁠.



Share your own personal story about #classics⁠ and ⁠#careers⁠ and find us at @theclassicalpod on Instagram or Threads.

Transcript of this episode available here.



Show Notes

The map George talks about is here

More info and enter the CA's Young Speaker Competition here

Watch the CA's Anniversary Film feat. a host of famous faces!

Follow the CA on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

And find out more at classicalassociation.org