Cleopatra, Part 4: Exploring Her Legacy
Season 2, Episode 24. Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago. And yet stop any person on the street today and ask them who she was, and they'll know – at least her name. That name has been attached ...
22 Juni 202046min
Cleopatra, Part 3: It Is Indeed Most Fine
Season 2, Episode 23. When we last left Cleopatra, she was creeping out the back door of a chaotic Rome in the wake of Julius Caesar's death. As she sails the waves back to Alexandria, she broods over...
13 Juni 20201h
Cleopatra, Part 2: Make It So
Season 2, Episode 22. Last time, we saw Cleopatra grow up in the city of Alexandria, amid both luxury, excess, and the constant threat of death by family member. When her pharaoh father fled Egypt, sh...
19 Maj 202030min
Cleopatra, Part 1: Growing Up Ptolemy
Season 2, Episode 21. Cleopatra, the last great queen of Egypt, doesn't really need an introduction. You can see her in your mind already, can't you? Pretty and sultry with her cat-eye makeup, covered...
1 Maj 202045min
A History of Women & Poison
Season 2, Episode 20. Throughout the ages, women have used poison - but their worlds also found ways to poison them. Doctors who didn't know better, giving them medicine that hurt instead of cured; to...
3 Apr 202039min
The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome, Part 3: Fulvia
Season 2, Episode 19. It's 47 or 46 BCE, and we've stepped into a private chamber, where a woman is pulling down her saffron-colored veil. Today she's getting married, but she's no blushing virgin. In...
20 Mars 20201h
The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome, Part 2: Servilia
Season 2, Episode 18. In ancient Rome, a woman was defined in relation to her family. Any fame she won was supposed to be confined to the private, domestic sphere. She wove such fine wool; she kept su...
27 Feb 202043min
The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome, Part 1: Cornelia
Season 2, Episode 17. In ancient Rome, a woman was defined in relation to her family. Any fame she won was supposed to be confined to the private, domestic sphere. She wove such fine wool; she kept su...
14 Feb 202045min
