A conversation with Beth Digeser about pedagogy, specifically about what we are hoping to accomplish by teaching Roman history. We talk about the limits of “influence” as a justification for it and the various ways that Rome is continually reinvented and made to speak to present concerns, from “Global Rome” to the special challenges posed by the world of late antiquity. Beth’s research focuses on the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine and so she looks in both directions of Roman history, forward and backwards, from there.

Elizabeth DePalma Digeser is a Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, where her research focuses on Late Roman Antiquity.

Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, a Professor at the University of Chicago. You can follow him on his personal website. You can listen to more episodes of Byzantium & Friends through Podbean, Spotify   or Apple Podcasts.