Psyche x Eros: A New Look at an Ancient Love Story (With Luna McNamara)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Psyche and Eros is an ancient love story that has always had the power to compel. It’s the story of a god of passion who falls in love with...
7 Des 20231h 7min
RE-RELEASE: Krampus: The Goat Knows What You Did
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! This year, we decided that the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a mythological foray into one of the most famous characters of t...
5 Des 202345min
Warrior Queens of Nubia
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! When we think of pyramids, hieroglyphs, and Pharaohs, most people think about Egypt. But there was a civilization to the south that was jus...
30 Nov 202352min
Lady Poisoners: Dangerous Women of History (With Lisa Perrin)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Throughout history, there have been a number of women who had—shall we say—a penchant for poison. Women who poisoned for power and influenc...
23 Nov 202359min
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...
16 Nov 202353min
Greek Fire: Mystery Weapon of the Byzantines
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Greek fire was an incendiary weapon of the ancient world—and perhaps the sole reason that the Byzantine Empire stood long after the rest of...
9 Nov 20231h 7min
Vikings: Fact and Fiction (With Kelsey Fuller-Shafer)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! When we talk about the Vikings, who are we talking about, exactly? What can we learn about Viking culture by looking at their myths? And wh...
2 Nov 20231h 1min
RE-RELEASE: Ancient Vampires: They Only Knock Once
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Communities all over the ancient world had a problem: their dead wouldn't stay in the ground. They rose up as shambolic corpses, gusts of w...
31 Okt 20231h 28min
