To launch series 4 of Two Friends Talk History, I was very fortunate to interview Dr Alice König, for this special crossover episode. Alice’s is the dynamic host of the Visualising War and Peace Podcast, a project that researches ancient habits of visualising war and peace through discussions with multi-disciplinary creators, writers, researchers, soldiers, curators and many more. I spoke with Alice in 2023 about her project as it was then in-progress; in today’s discussion, she reflects on larger themes and the forthcoming publication about the Visualising War and Peace project that is being published by Routledge, titled, Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean: Interplay between Conflict Narratives in Different Genres and Media (Routledge 2025).
Podcast art by: Zofia Guertin
Special Episode: Ancient war stories and their real-world ramifications with Alice König – Two Friends Talk History
The upcoming volume covers a broad geographic range of topics from several ancient cultures including Jewish, Greek, Roman, Persian and Christian, to unpick how modes of visualising war can be found intertextually across space and time. This innovative series also presents readers with a way to consider pivoting from traditional means of visualising the past and warfare through a detailed methodology in the introduction. It encourages readers and researchers of the future to study conflict narratives with new interrogative methods.
In part two, I will be interviewing Alice about how we tackle the study of war’s aftermath, conflict resolution, peacebuilding and peace itself were understood and experienced in different cultures and communities across antiquity.
Please join us next time!
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