Mythology of Aphrodite
Goddess of sex workers, Our Lady of the Castration Foam, the walking embodiment of orgasm herself—Aphrodite was one of the most powerful goddesses in the Olympian pantheon. And as a free, unattached w...
18 Nov 20211h 19min
The Cult of Aphrodite
If you know anything about Aphrodite, then you know she is the ancient Greek goddess primarily associated with love, beauty, sex, reproduction, and passion. She was also the patron goddess of sex work...
11 Nov 20211h 10min
Assassin's Creed Odyssey (With Liv Albert from Myths Baby!)
Liv Albert from Let's Talk About Myths Baby! has an obsession, and the name of that obsession is Assassin's Creed Odyssey. This game immerses you immediately in Ancient Greece--and provides loads of h...
4 Nov 20211h 14min
Werewolves of Wolf Mountain: Terrors of Ancient Greece
The werewolf myth as we know it today generally involves getting bitten by a werewolf, transforming during the full moon, and being very susceptible to silver bullets. But werewolves in ancient Greece...
28 Okt 20211h 20min
Three Ghost Stories from Ancient Greece (with Liv Albert from Myths Baby!)
Dads who devour their children. Disembodied baby heads. Corpses that stand up on the battlefield to prophesy doom. Women who return from the grave to carry on steamy affairs. The Ancient Greeks did gh...
14 Okt 20211h 15min
Women of the Wolf Den: Sex Workers of Pompeii (With Elodie Harper)
The Lupanar, or “Wolf Den,” is the infamous brothel of Pompeii. Elodie Harper’s bestselling novel follows the lives of the sex workers who lived and worked there—their passions, their heartbreaks, and...
30 Sep 20211h 1min
Aspasia x Pericles: Love in the Time of Plague
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 them all. Long-term partner of a leading Athenian statesman, d...
23 Sep 202148min
Hustlers, Harlots, Heroines: The Elite Courtesans Who Ruled Classical Athens
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 freedom and independence than most in the ancient Greek world could...
16 Sep 20211h 31min
