The Murderous Magic of Medea (With Rosie Hewlett)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Perhaps the most infamous bad girl of ancient Greek mythology, Medea is also so much more complex than her end game makes her appear. She’s...
28 Mar 202450min
History of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Perhaps the first list of Seven Wonders was written by Herodotus sometime in the 400s BC. But the list didn’t really get popularized until ...
14 Mar 20241h 8min
RE-RELEASE: Could You Survive Pompeii? A Choose Your Own Adventure Episode
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! You’ve been transported almost 2,000 years into the past, to the streets of Pompeii. It’s a brisk autumn morning, around, oh…10 AM…and all ...
7 Mar 20241h 22min
RE-RELEASE: The Pompeii Refugee Crisis (With Elodie Harper)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We’ve covered the deadly day in 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii in a suffocating layer of ash and pumice. But we haven’t c...
29 Feb 202453min
RE-RELEASE: The Invisible Thread: Life after Slavery in Pompeii (With Elodie Harper)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! What happened to people in ancient Rome who were freed from slavery? Turns out there were still invisible threads--economic pressures, imba...
22 Feb 20241h 2min
RE-RELEASE: Women of the Wolf Den: Sex Workers of Pompeii (With Elodie Harper)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! The Lupanar, or “Wolf Den,” is the infamous brothel of Pompeii. Elodie Harper’s bestselling novel follows the lives of the sex workers who ...
15 Feb 20241h 1min
RE-RELEASE: The Cult of Aphrodite
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! If you know anything about Aphrodite, then you know she is the ancient Greek goddess primarily associated with love, beauty, sex, reproduct...
8 Feb 20241h 10min
RE-RELEASE: Aspasia x Pericles: Love in the Time of Plague
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Last week, we told you about the lives of five courtesans in Classical Athens. But we left someone out--perhaps the most elite hetaera of t...
1 Feb 202448min
