Articles by Jenny Williamson

Become a Patron! Our ancient sources include: Cassius Dio’s Roman History (Earnest Cary translation) The Historia Augusta (David Magie translation) Catullus: Cybele and [...Read More...]

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 [...Read More...]

We’re calling this series gender rebels of the ancient world—because how could we do a season about sex and sex magic without talking about the magical provenance of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our ancient sources include: Plato’s Symposium (Benjamin Jowett translation) Ovid’s Metamorphosis (A.S. Kline translation) The Republic of Plato [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Check out Sweetbitter’s upcoming season on pirates! More relevant links: @alyseknorr seriously though it’s true. #pirateshanty #pirateshantytiktok [...Read More...]

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 [...Read More...]

What can we learn about the lives of women in the ancient world–both religious and secular–when we delve into mythology? In this episode, we talk to Jennifer [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Check out Jennifer Saint’s author website and important links to places where you can find her online and purchase Ariadne in [...Read More...]

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 [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Thank you so much for joining us on this end-of-the-year journey! Here are our sources for this episode: Livy: The History of Rome (Benjamin Oliver Foster [...Read More...]