End of Season 7 Announcement
It's the end of Season 7! We can't believe we made it...something like 42 episodes later? It's been a wonderful, weird, challenging, and heartbreaking season, for many different reasons. Find out what...
2 Elo 202227min
Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Atalanta
It’s the last episode in our Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology series—and perhaps you’ll agree we saved the best for last. Atalanta was an avatar of an older, wilder time, created in the image of an an...
28 Heinä 20221h 13min
Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Artemis
When you think of Artemis, what springs to mind? Perhaps it’s a fierce huntress with a bow and arrow, a sort of female Peter Pan—wild and untamed, haunting forests drenched in moonlight—a goddess who...
21 Heinä 202249min
Actium, Baby! (With Barry Strauss)
This week, we’re taking a bit of a detour into a previous, much-loved topic: Marc Antony, Cleopatra, and How it All Went Wrong. In this episode, we return to the beach at Actium with author, historian...
7 Heinä 20221h 5min
Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Pallas x Athena
Most myths say that Athena sprung from Zeus’ head fully formed, totally brilliant, and just a badass war goddess. We don’t get a lot of stories about her youth, the way we have about Dionysus, or Arte...
30 Kesä 202250min
Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Heracles x Omphale
This week, we’re going to talk about that time Heracles, the strong man, son of Zeus and noted impenetrable penetrator, lived as a woman. Yes, you read that right. And not only did he live as a woman,...
23 Kesä 20221h 7min
Transgender Achilles and Found Family in the Illiad (With Maya Deane)
Many of us have preconceived notions about what the Illiad was like. Prepare to have those notions blown away. In this episode, debut author Maya Deane methodically strips away the lenses of the Victo...
9 Kesä 20221h 15min
Zeus x Ganymede: Not Gender Rebels
We’re taking a slight departure from our Gender Rebels series to tell you the story of Zeus and Ganymede. This is the story about the time Zeus kidnapped a teenage boy named Ganymede and brought him t...
2 Kesä 202248min
