38: Luke Lavan (University of Kent)

Luke joins David to discuss his forthcoming book on public space in Late Antiquity, reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall at the age of 12, how a birthday trip to Hadrian's Wall had to be postponed so he could have an emergency operation, why Constantine I is one his favourite emperors but he doesn't have much time for Justinian anymore, studying in Germany, France, Belgium, Turkey and Italy, his thoughts on the current state of late antique studies, and why Scythopolis in the AD500 was a much better place to live than Athens or Pompeii...Luke Lavan is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent.You can find out more about the Late Antique Archaeology Series here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.