Jonathan Migliori is an archaeologist and classicist from Providence, RI. He has an A.B. in Archaeology, Medieval Cultures, and Classics from Brown University and an M.A. in Archaeology from Durham University. He has participated in field excavations in Rhode Island and Ostia Antica and worked as part of the Ancient Art department at the RISD Museum. A Guest Speaker and Resident Historian with Viking Cruises since 2017, he has cruised all over Scandinavia, the Baltic, the British Isles, and Mediterranean. When he’s not speaking at sea he teaches Latin at a preparatory school in Providence.

Ancient Mediterranean
“The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus”
“Pompeii and Herculaneum: Cities Frozen in Ash”
“The Forum Romanum: Layers of History”
“The Religious Landscape of Ancient Rome”
“Bread and Circuses: Gladiators and Spectacle in Ancient Rome”
“Oracles and Olympics: The Religious Landscapes of Ancient Greece”
“The Persian Wars and the Rise of Athens”
“The Acropolis: The Heart of Athens”
“The Real Trojan War”
“The Palaces of Minoan Crete”
“Alexander’s Empire”
“The Life, Death, and Afterlife of King Tutankhamen”
“After the Pharaohs: Egypt in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods”
“The Pyramids of Giza"

Ancient and Medieval Northern Europe
“Old English Literature: Beowulf and Beyond”
“The Norman Conquest”
“Skalds and Sagas: The Literature of the Vikings”
“Silent Stones: Decoding Orkney’s Megaliths”
“The Jarls of Orkney and Shetland”
“Hadrian’s Wall: The End of an Empire”
“The Ancient Celts: Britain’s Not-So Mysterious Past’
“Norse Colonization of the North Atlantic”
“Viking Religion”
“Mysteries of the Bog Bodies”

Into the Midnight Sun - Summer 2017 (Guest Speaker): London-Bergen
Into the Midnight Sun - Summer 2018 (Resident Historian): London-Bergen
Viking Homelands - Summer 2018 (Resident Historian): Bergen-Stockholm
Viking Homelands - Summer 2019 (Resident Historian): Bergen-Stockholm
British Isles Explorer - Summer 2019 (Guest Speaker): London-Bergen
Viking Homelands x2 - Summer 2022 (Resident Historian): Stockholm-Bergen-Stockholm
Empires of the Mediterranean - Summer 2023 (Resident Historian): Athens-Venice
Mediterranean Odyssey -Summer 2023 (Resident Historian): Venice-Barcelona