Year: 2016
'This is Greece with Michael Scott' aired on SBS for Australia in Winter 2016. This series of programmes takes viewers across mainland Greece and the Aegean islands to explore its fascinating history from antiquity to today.
Ancient Worlds Linking East and West Time: 5pm Location: Kevinhall Lecture Theatre I will be speaking as part of the Humanities Lecture Series in Glasgow this January, discussing themes from my latest publication
“Sicily is an incredible melting pot of ideas beliefs and peoples – which is why it is such a key focus for thought in 2016”
“Olympia, site of the ancient Olympic games, competes with the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi for the accolade of being Greece’s most famous sacred space”
‘Think of Archimedes (c287–212/211 BC), and I bet the image you have is that of a man jumping naked out of his bath, running down the street shouting “Eureka!” (ancient Greek for “I have found it”).’
‘Even 2,500 years later, the tensions that were clear in Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek society show up in democratic governance
"M. I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and his Impact." Cambridge Classical Studies, October 2016.
In 2016-8, supported by Strategic and Departmental Warwick Impact Fund grants, working with Warwick Academic Technologist Steve Ranford, a team of Warwick Classics PG and UG students, and the development team at Computerminds
This two-part series examined the history of Sicily as a cultural melting pot from the Neolithic period to the modern day and ask what it means to be Sicilian. From treading grapes in an ancient wine press, scrambling across a 20ft Lava wall on mount Etna, reciting Shakespeare in an ancient Greek theatre, excavating child bones from a possible human sacrifice, salt mining old-fashioned style, having a cut throat shave from an 80 year local barber, trying my hand at Sicilian martial art of stick-fighting, making puppets and chocolate and exploring the underground Arab aqueducts of Palermo, we travel across the length and breadth of this extraordinary island.
‘History is so often studied in isolated chunks, but that is not how it was experienced. Instead I want to offer an ancient global history, one that helps us understand how much we have always owed interaction with one another.’
“Globalisation is nothing new – it began with Confucius 2,500 years ago”
My new book Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West is published this week Fr… Read More 
Annual Presidential Lecture: “More Invisible Cities” Time: 7pm Doors open at 6.15pm Location: AKS Main Hall, Clifton Drive South, Lytham St Annes, FY8 1DT I will be speaking again on 5th January for the Lytham St Annes Classical Association to give my annual presidential lecture
Annual JP Postgate Lecture Guest Speaker Location: Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egytology, Liverpool University Time: tba I will be giving the annual John Percival Postgate Lecture at Liverpool University this December
"Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West" Time: 9-10pm On the 7th October I will be giving a talk at BBC History Magazine's Festival at Winchester discussing my most recent publication, "Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West"
Following the success of “Rome’s Invisible City”, in summer 2… Read More
"Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West" Location: Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TY Time: 18:30 to 20:00 On the 6th of October I will be giving a talk and holding a book signing for my latest publication
A conversation with Bettany Hughes about my new publication "Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West" Location: Royal Institution of Great Britain On the 5th July, I was part of an event with Bettany Hughes about my new book Ancient Worlds at an event organized by Intelligence Squared
"Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West" Location: tba Time: 12.15 On the 17th of August I will be giving a talk and book signing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, discussing my newest publication, "Ancient Worlds"
"Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West" Location: Historical Trips Tent Time: 20.45 On the 1st of the July I gave a talk and book signing at the Chalke Valley History festival, discussing my newest publication, "Ancient Worlds"
Annual Guest lecture for Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Location: Ashmolean, Oxford Time: TBA On the 8th of June I will be giving the Annual Guest lecture for the Friends of the Ashmolean in Oxford
Sicily: a force to be reckoned with in the ancient world' Location: BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum Time: 18.30-19.30 The cities and rulers of ancient Sicily were well known for often building big at home, but how did they articulate their presence and importance abroad?
A talk, book signing & wine reception for 'Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World' Location: Blackwell's Bookshop, Broad Street, Oxford Time: 7pm-8pm On the 4th of February I will be giving a talk about my newest publication, 'Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World'
