Meet your teachers

Professor Chris Mackie

"I am delighted to be involved in our iTunes U initiatives. The study of ancient Rome is both fascinating and rewarding, and the fact that we can bring it to people all over the world via iTunes U is a matter for celebration. I hope that everyone enjoys the course and goes on to do more study in academically related areas."

Dr Rhiannon Evans

"I'm very proud that the Ancient Roman World is going to be the first iTunes U for assessment and credit subject. We are really looking forward to finding out how students from all around the world respond to this fascinating ancient culture."

  

Dr Gillian Shepherd

"This is 'Essential Rome' - everything in Roman culture from emperors (both sane and mad) to slaves, from grand epic poetry to ribald comedies, from the Colosseum to latrines in Pompeii." 

Sarah Midford

“I am really excited to be teaching The Ancient Roman World. In my opinion this subject covers all the most interesting parts of Roman history and culture. Students will learn about Roman myth, slavery, civil war, despotic emperors and political turmoil and come to understand the important legacy Rome has left to the modern world.”

 Dr Sonya Wurster

"It is exciting to be teaching a course that is available to students from anywhere in the world. Such a wide range of students opens up so many new interpretations of the Roman world and the people who lived in it, but it is also reminds us of the connections we all share with the past."