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
RE-RELEASE: Hustlers, Harlots, Heroines: The Elite Courtesans Who Ruled Classical Athens
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last few episodes on sex workers in ancient Greece, we tried to paint a picture of a group of women, in some cases, with more freedo...
25 Jan 20241h 31min
RE-RELEASE: Dangers of the Symposium
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! The symposia--all-male drinking parties--were the playground and hunting ground of Athens' elite courtesans. But they had their dangers, to...
18 Jan 202456min
RE-RELEASE: Rules of the Game: Sex Workers of Ancient Greece
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! The conventional wisdom is that sex workers in ancient Greece were divided into two main categories: pornai who were enslaved in brothels, ...
11 Jan 20241h 3min
