Abortion in the Ancient World (With Princess O'Nika Auguste)
Not only was abortion broadly legal in ancient Greece and Rome, but some of the methods used were surprisingly similar to today. And the Bible doesn’t mention it at all—except in one obscure passage, ...
26 Touko 202246min
Abortion Rights Takeover: Silphium
This episode is part of our abortion rights takeover series. It was originally dropped on our Patreon. It deals with the miracle plant of ancient Greece and Rome: Silphium. The people of Cyrene printe...
19 Touko 202228min
Abortion Rights Takeover: Bathroom Business (With Kate the Exploress)
This episode is part of our abortion rights takeover. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled series on gender rebels on June 2. In this re-release, Kate from the Exploress podcast joined us to discu...
17 Touko 20221h 8min
The Invisible Thread: Life after Slavery in Pompeii (With Elodie Harper)
What happened to people in ancient Rome who were freed from slavery? Turns out there were still invisible threads--economic pressures, imbalances of status, and debts owed to wealthy patrons--that kep...
12 Touko 20221h 2min
Podcast Takeover for Abortion Rights
As most of you probably already know, abortion rights in the US are under attack. Somebody leaked a Supreme Court initial majority draft that was a full throated, loud and proud revocation of pregnant...
10 Touko 20224min
Elektra, Clytemnestra, Cassandra, and the Curse of Atreus (With Jennifer Saint)
This week, we're taking a break from the story of Achilles to discuss the Illiad from an angle that's not as often covered: the story of the women of the House of Atreus, the family of Agamemnon. In t...
5 Touko 202251min
Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Achilles at War
In this episode, we explore what happened to gender in the pressure-cooker of ancient war. To do that, we skip ahead ten years to a different beach: the war-blasted, corpse-strewn sands below the wall...
28 Huhti 20221h 1min
Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Achilles' Beach Vacation
In our last episode we looked at Achilles’ early life and his relationships with the women who crossed his path. In this episode, we follow him to the beach at Aulis—where all the Greek kings and hero...
21 Huhti 202257min
