Articles by Jenny Williamson

High in the mountains of eastern Crete, there’s a secret that has been kept since the 1200s BC. It’s the secret of the strange and still-unexplained 80+ ancient villages [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! First, here it is in all its glory: “The Mystery of the Sphinx,” the documentary with Robert Schoch, John Anthony West and Charleton Heston (for [...Read More...]

Carved from the very living bedrock of the Giza plateau, the Sphinx is shrouded in mystery. Archaeologists believe it’s about 4,500 years old. But there’s a fringe [...Read More...]

It’s the last episode in our Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology series—and perhaps you’ll agree we saved the best for last. Atalanta was an avatar of an older, wilder [...Read More...]

When you think of Artemis, what springs to mind? Perhaps it’s a fierce huntress with a bow and arrow, a sort of female Peter Pan—wild and untamed, haunting forests [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Go here to order Barry Strauss’s latest book: The War that Made the Roman Empire: Marc Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium. And check out his [...Read More...]

This week, we’re taking a bit of a detour into a previous, much-loved topic: Marc Antony, Cleopatra, and How it All Went Wrong. In this episode, we return to the beach at [...Read More...]

Most myths say that Athena sprung from Zeus’ head fully formed, totally brilliant, and just a badass war goddess. We don’t get a lot of stories about her youth, the way [...Read More...]

This week, we’re going to talk about that time Heracles, the strong man, son of Zeus and noted impenetrable penetrator, lived as a woman. Yes, you read that right. And not [...Read More...]

Who’s the queerest of the gods? It’s hard to say…but there’s a strong case to be made that it’s Dionysus. The god of wine and revolutionaries [...Read More...]