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 Dec 202157min
Krampus: The Goat Knows What You Did
This year, we decided that the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a mythological foray into one of the most famous characters of the season: The Krampus. And some of you might be saying: wait...
23 Dec 202145min
Bathroom Business (With Kate the Exploress)
How did sex workers in ancient Greece and Rome manage their periods? What were the most popular fashions for pubic hair? What underwear was everyone wearing? And how did sex workers handle contracepti...
2 Dec 20211h 8min
