Season 4, Ep. 6: A Conversation with Elena Stolyarik and John Kleeberg
Elena Stolyarik and John Kleeberg join the Planchet podcast to talk about their new book to be published by the ANS in September, Scythians and Greeks on the Western Black Sea: The Coinage of the Kings of Scythia Minor in Dobruja, 218/212–110 BCE. Both guests have a long history with the ANS: Elena recently retired as its Collections Manager after joining the ANS in 1994, and John served for 10 years as the Curator of Modern Coins and Currency. In this episode, we talk about the Scythians, who they were, and how we know about them through literary, archaeological, and numismatic evidence. We also learn about the great friendship and collaboration shared by Stolyarik and Kleeberg, which resulted in a book destined to become a classic. Also, spies, a fatal car crash, and the essential value of reading scholarship in languages other than English.
Total Time: 77:00
Music: “Fugue Ostinato” by Ukrainian composer Roman Hrynkiv, played on the bandura by Tetiana Mazur.
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