Ancient Office Hours

Join Lexie Henning as she chats with thought leaders in academia and the entertainment industry about how they got into their field, their current work, and how they connect with the past. Together they strive to connect modern societies to ancient worlds, explore antiquity via contemporary storytelling, and introduce a wider audience to the various ways history and mythology influences popular culture around the world.



Tune in for intimate conversations with established top scholars, current postgrads, early career academics, and professionals in their respective fields as their wisdom and advice has never been more accessible!

Lexie Henning

Lexie earned her BA in Classics from the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in 2018. She is passionate about exploring Classical reception through the lens of contemporary storytelling in media and advocating for greater access to resources about the ancient world. In January 2023, she completed an MSc in Southeast European Politics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She wrote her thesis on the effects of Islamic iconoclasm on the Hagia Sophia and its impact on cultural heritage policy in Erdoğan’s Turkey.