Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. She is the author of Venus & Aphrodite (2019), Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities (2017), Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore (2005) and The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life (2010) – all published to great critical acclaim and worldwide success. Bettany is a Research Fellow of King’s College London, a Tutor at Cambridge University’s Institute for Continuing Education and Visiting Professor of History at the New College of the Humanities. She’s been honored with numerous awards including the prestigious Norton Medlicott Medal for History and was Chair of the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction 2019.
Bettany’s made documentaries on history, culture and philosophy for BBC, Channel 4, PBS, National Geographic, Discovery and HISTORY, including Byzantium Unearthed and a BBC Radio 4 series where she tracked the old Roman Road, the Via Egnatia, from Albania to Istanbul.
Sessions in which Bettany Hughes participates
Saturday 4 April, 2020
The legacy of ancient Rome is all around you. It’s in your language, the buildings you see and the food you eat—almost 2,000 years after it fell. In this panel, we’ll explore the lasting legacy of Rome, and how they’ve influenced modern-day technology, society, laws, architecture and art.Archaeologist Darius Arya, director of the American Institute of Roman Culture, will host a wide-ranging conversation with author, historian and tv presente...
