Gender Rebels of Ancient Greece and Rome: Eunuchs (Part 1)
In ancient Rome, there were a lot of eunuchs. Some were enslaved, some were free; some were members of religious cults, some were not. No study of queer history in ancient Greece and Rome would be com...
24 Feb 202250min
Gender Rebels of Ancient Greece and Rome: Intersex People
Intersex people are sometimes featured in Greek mythology in a positive way—for instance, the beautiful child of Aphrodite who became an important part of her entourage. But the ancient Romans saw Int...
17 Feb 20221h 6min
BONUS: We Wrote a Book!
We are SO excited that we have a book coming out in August 2022! Our book, Women of Myth, will be available worldwide from Simon and Schuster. Listen in as we talk about our favorite Women of Myth fr...
15 Feb 202239min
Gender Rebels of Ancient Greece and Rome: Transgender People
Join us for a deep dive into queer history in ancient Greece and Rome. This week, we focus on transgender men and women. It's a common belief that being trans is somehow a "modern" invention and there...
10 Feb 20221h 3min
Gender Rebels of Ancient Greece and Rome: Queer Women
This mini-series-within-a-series will be a deep dive into queer history in ancient Greece and Rome--starting with queer women. Because how could we do a season about sex and sex magic without talking ...
3 Feb 20221h
Life of Sappho (With Leesa Charlotte from Sweetbitter)
She's the Tenth Muse, Western literature's first lyric poet, and a woman who openly, unabashedly loved women and wrote about it--in an extremely patriarchal society where queer women's experiences wer...
27 Jan 202244min
Ariadne, Dionysus, and the Theseus of it All (With Jennifer Saint)
In this episode, we talk to Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne, to discuss myth, storytelling, the lives of women in Minoan Crete--and the process of recreating mysterious, ancient religiou...
6 Jan 202252min
Janus: God of the New Year
Janus is the two-faced god of the Roman pantheon. He was the god of beginnings and endings, of dual natures, of passageways and passage through time. He’s the god of thresholds and doorways and gates,...
30 Des 202157min
