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Gods of Prehistoric Britain - Ronald Hutton
"00:00 // Introduction: Britain's Pagan Heritage
00:44 // The Richness of Britain's Pre-Christian Religions
02:02 // Key Archaeological Finds: From the Paleolithic to the Iron Age
08:03 // The Influence of Roman and Anglo-Saxon Deities
15:17 // The Viking Pantheon and the Evolution of Religious Beliefs
20:35 // The Mystery of Stonehenge: Construction and Purpose
32:15 // Competing Theories on Stonehenge's Function
41:09 // The Enigma of Lindow Man: Ritual Sacrifice or Crime?
50:24 // The Debate on Human Sacrifice in Prehistoric Britain
55:10 // The Role of Experts in Understanding Prehistoric Religion
57:45 // Closing Thoughts: Embracing Multiple Perspectives
Britain has one of the richest of all pagan heritages in Europe, defined as the textual and material evidence for its pre-Christian religions. The island is possessed of monuments, burial sites and a range of other remains not only from several distinct ages of prehistory, but also from three different major historic cultures.
This lecture will look at what we know of prehistoric worship, focusing on Stonehenge and the bog body known as Lindow Man, to examine the difficulties of interpreting evidence for ritual behaviour for which no textual testimony survives."
00:44 // The Richness of Britain's Pre-Christian Religions
02:02 // Key Archaeological Finds: From the Paleolithic to the Iron Age
08:03 // The Influence of Roman and Anglo-Saxon Deities
15:17 // The Viking Pantheon and the Evolution of Religious Beliefs
20:35 // The Mystery of Stonehenge: Construction and Purpose
32:15 // Competing Theories on Stonehenge's Function
41:09 // The Enigma of Lindow Man: Ritual Sacrifice or Crime?
50:24 // The Debate on Human Sacrifice in Prehistoric Britain
55:10 // The Role of Experts in Understanding Prehistoric Religion
57:45 // Closing Thoughts: Embracing Multiple Perspectives
Britain has one of the richest of all pagan heritages in Europe, defined as the textual and material evidence for its pre-Christian religions. The island is possessed of monuments, burial sites and a range of other remains not only from several distinct ages of prehistory, but also from three different major historic cultures.
This lecture will look at what we know of prehistoric worship, focusing on Stonehenge and the bog body known as Lindow Man, to examine the difficulties of interpreting evidence for ritual behaviour for which no textual testimony survives."
Dionysus: Lord of Misrule - Ronald Hutton
"00:00 // Introduction: The "Dodgy Deities" Series
01:44 // Why Was Dionysus Always the Outsider?
02:42 // Dionysus & Wine: The God of the Morning After
03:11 // Focus of the Talk: The Cult, Not the Myth
04:16 // Dionysus as a Vegetation & Agricultural God
06:34 // The Athenian Festivals of Dionysus
08:32 // Dionysus the Great Leveller: Wine for All
11:28 // The Dark & Frightening Side of Dionysus
18:10 // Dionysus the Transgressor: Women, Madness & the Maenads
24:53 // The Bacchic Scandal in Rome (186 BCE)
26:48 // Dionysus, Patron of Drama & Athenian Theatre
33:45 // The Dionysian Mystery Religion
40:42 // Dionysus, Death & the Afterlife
44:22 // Conclusion: The Most Complex Greek God
[...]
The ancient Greeks themselves were never comfortable about their god Dionysus, or Bacchus, treating him as a foreign intruder. This is because he was patron of wine, with all its exciting, convivial and destructive effects. As such he was associated with community, sociability, reconciliation, inspiration and salvation, but also with madness, violence, transgression and fear. He was both the ultimate party animal and the leader of the hippies from hell. This lecture steers a course through his various different attributions, to see if a unity and logic can be found at the heart of them.
This lecture was recorded by Ronald Hutton on the 6th May 2026 at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London
Professor Hutton is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. He took degrees at Cambridge and then Oxford Universities, and was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is now a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries and the Learned Society of Wales, and has won awards for teaching and research.
He has lectured all over the world, authored twenty books and ninety-six essays, appeared in or presented scores of television and radio programmes, and sits on the editorial boards of six journals concerned with the history of religion and magic.
He is currently working on the third volume of his biography of Oliver Cromwell.
The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/god-dionysus"
Q&A: Dionysus: Lord of Misrule - Ronald Hutton
01:44 // Why Was Dionysus Always the Outsider?
02:42 // Dionysus & Wine: The God of the Morning After
03:11 // Focus of the Talk: The Cult, Not the Myth
04:16 // Dionysus as a Vegetation & Agricultural God
06:34 // The Athenian Festivals of Dionysus
08:32 // Dionysus the Great Leveller: Wine for All
11:28 // The Dark & Frightening Side of Dionysus
18:10 // Dionysus the Transgressor: Women, Madness & the Maenads
24:53 // The Bacchic Scandal in Rome (186 BCE)
26:48 // Dionysus, Patron of Drama & Athenian Theatre
33:45 // The Dionysian Mystery Religion
40:42 // Dionysus, Death & the Afterlife
44:22 // Conclusion: The Most Complex Greek God
[...]
The ancient Greeks themselves were never comfortable about their god Dionysus, or Bacchus, treating him as a foreign intruder. This is because he was patron of wine, with all its exciting, convivial and destructive effects. As such he was associated with community, sociability, reconciliation, inspiration and salvation, but also with madness, violence, transgression and fear. He was both the ultimate party animal and the leader of the hippies from hell. This lecture steers a course through his various different attributions, to see if a unity and logic can be found at the heart of them.
This lecture was recorded by Ronald Hutton on the 6th May 2026 at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London
Professor Hutton is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. He took degrees at Cambridge and then Oxford Universities, and was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is now a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries and the Learned Society of Wales, and has won awards for teaching and research.
He has lectured all over the world, authored twenty books and ninety-six essays, appeared in or presented scores of television and radio programmes, and sits on the editorial boards of six journals concerned with the history of religion and magic.
He is currently working on the third volume of his biography of Oliver Cromwell.
The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/god-dionysus"
Q&A: Dionysus: Lord of Misrule - Ronald Hutton
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