Articles by Jenny Williamson

This episode is part of our abortion rights takeover series. It was originally dropped on our Patreon. It deals with the miracle plant of ancient Greece and Rome: Silphium. [...Read More...]

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What happened to people in ancient Rome who were freed from slavery? Turns out there were still invisible threads–economic pressures, imbalances of status, and debts [...Read More...]

This is our show notes page for all the episodes in our Abortion Rights Takeover series. In those episodes, we talked about methods for performing an abortion in the ancient [...Read More...]

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This week, we’re taking a break from the story of Achilles to discuss the Illiad from an angle that’s not as often covered: the story of the women of the House of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron!   This episode wouldn’t have been possible without these sources. Ancient Literature.com: Briseis Poetry in Translation: The Iliad  Iphigenia at [...Read More...]

In this episode, we explore what happened to gender in the pressure-cooker of ancient war. To do that, we skip ahead ten years to a different beach: the war-blasted, [...Read More...]

In our last episode we looked at Achilles’ early life and his relationships with the women who crossed his path. In this episode, we follow him to the beach at [...Read More...]

Achilles is so often portrayed as the most masculine of heroes, but those portrayals generally leave out that he spent a few years of his life passing as a girl. Today, [...Read More...]