This bonus episode the Fantasy/Animation podcast marks a very special instalment with Chris asked to moderate a roundtable celebrating the launch of the new book Music as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2025), edited by Dr Emily Pillinger (Reader in Classics and Interdisciplinary Humanities at King’s College london) and Dr Miranda Stanyon (Senior Lecturer, English Literary Studies at the University of Melbourne). The book conceptualises the emerging field of classical reception in music, and looks at the convergence between musicality and classical antiquity across a number of ancient and modern case studies. Joining Chris, Emily, and Miranda to discuss the book is Dr Joanna Paul (Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University), who reflects on her chapter from the collection titled “Amplification, Reverberation, and Distortion: The Curious Story of Pompeii and Popular Music” that looks at the 1972 part-concert film part-documentary Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (Adrian Maben, 1972).
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