A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire, Part 1
Season 2, Episode 14. Let's travel back to ancient Rome and meet the women who lived amid this ancient-world juggernaut. Many are Roman citizens: the wives and daughters and sisters of influential men...
14 Nov 20191h 1min
A History of Female Hair Removal
Season 2, Episode 13. Our grooming habits are a contested issue, no more so than the question of what we do with our hair down below. This is especially true for women, for whom the question of whethe...
10 Okt 201937min
Queen Olympias & Alexander the Great's Women, Part 2
Season 2, Episode 12. In Part 1 we met Olympias, Alexander the Great's mother, and saw her navigate some savage drama to get her and her son to the top. Now let's see what she does when he goes off co...
22 Aug 201942min
Queen Olympias & Alexander the Great's Women, Part 1
Season 2, Episode 11. Ancient Greek queen Olympias went to epic lengths to ensure her son Alex ended up on the throne. In doing so, she helped make him worthy of his title: Alexander the Great. Alexan...
15 Aug 201949min
Amazons & the Real Warrior Women of Antiquity, Part 2
Episode 2, Season 10. The ancient Greeks told lots of stories about the Amazons: the mythic bands of warrior women that Hellanikos of Lesbos described as "golden-shielded, silver-axed, man-loving, boy...
8 Aug 201932min
Amazons & the Real Warrior Women of Antiquity, Part 1
Season 2, Episode 9. The ancient Greeks told lots of stories about the Amazons: the mythic bands of warrior women that Hellanikos of Lesbos described as "a host of golden-shielded, silver-axed, man-lo...
1 Aug 201946min
Sappho & Sexuality in Ancient Greece
Episode 2, Episode 8. When it comes to the words that made it through time to us, ancient Greece is particularly loud with men's voices. But if you listen, you can hear one woman through the crowd—we ...
24 Jul 201936min
A Lady's Life in Ancient Greece, Part 2
Season 2, Episode 7. Ancient Greece is notorious for keeping women silent, veiled, and firmly fixed at the loom. But was life for women in places like Athens really so restrictive? What did they get u...
10 Jul 201941min
