Cleopatra, Part 2: Make It So
Season 2, Episode 22. Last time, we saw Cleopatra grow up in the city of Alexandria, amid both luxury, excess, and the constant threat of death by family member. When her pharaoh father fled Egypt, sh...
19 Touko 202030min
Cleopatra, Part 1: Growing Up Ptolemy
Season 2, Episode 21. Cleopatra, the last great queen of Egypt, doesn't really need an introduction. You can see her in your mind already, can't you? Pretty and sultry with her cat-eye makeup, covered...
1 Touko 202045min
A History of Women & Poison
Season 2, Episode 20. Throughout the ages, women have used poison - but their worlds also found ways to poison them. Doctors who didn't know better, giving them medicine that hurt instead of cured; to...
3 Huhti 202039min
The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome, Part 3: Fulvia
Season 2, Episode 19. It's 47 or 46 BCE, and we've stepped into a private chamber, where a woman is pulling down her saffron-colored veil. Today she's getting married, but she's no blushing virgin. In...
20 Maalis 20201h
The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome, Part 2: Servilia
Season 2, Episode 18. In ancient Rome, a woman was defined in relation to her family. Any fame she won was supposed to be confined to the private, domestic sphere. She wove such fine wool; she kept su...
27 Helmi 202043min
The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome, Part 1: Cornelia
Season 2, Episode 17. In ancient Rome, a woman was defined in relation to her family. Any fame she won was supposed to be confined to the private, domestic sphere. She wove such fine wool; she kept su...
14 Helmi 202045min
A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire, Part 3
Season 2, Episode 16. Welcome to a day in the life of an ancient Roman matrona. In Part 3 of our exploration of a Roman woman's day, we go out into the streets, taking in the Coliseum, the Forum, and ...
29 Marras 20191h 6min
A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire, Part 2
Season 2, Episode 15. Welcome to a day in the life of an ancient Roman matrona. Now that we've learned a bit about Rome's overarching history, woken up, visited the bathroom, and gotten dressed and re...
21 Marras 20191h 2min
