Articles by Jenny Williamson

Become a Patron!   Here are the sources that enabled us to put together ths episode. First, just a reminder that you should all pick up Daniel Ogden’s The Werewolf [...Read More...]

The werewolf myth as we know it today generally involves getting bitten by a werewolf, transforming during the full moon, and being very susceptible to silver bullets. But [...Read More...]

Dads who devour their children. Disembodied baby heads. Corpses that stand up on the battlefield to prophesy doom. Women who return from the grave to carry on steamy affairs. [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Check out Liv on Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Our main source for all three stories is Phlegon of Tralles’ Book of Marvels (William Hansen [...Read More...]

The Lupanar, or “Wolf Den,” is the infamous brothel of Pompeii. Elodie Harper’s bestselling novel follows the lives of the sex workers who lived and worked [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here’s a picture of the Lupanar in Pompeii! Check out Elodie’s website, where you can find links to buy The Wolf Den in paperback or pre-order [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Plutarch’s Life of Pericles (Bernadotte Perrin translation) Plato’s Menexenus (Benjamin Jowett translation) [...Read More...]

Last week, we told you about the lives of five elite courtesans in Classical Athens. But we left someone out–perhaps the most elite hetaera of them all. Long-term [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World, Essays elited by Christopher A. Faraone & Laura K. McClure [...Read More...]

In our last few episodes on sex workers in ancient Greece, we tried to paint a picture of a group of women, in some cases, with more freedom and independence than most in the [...Read More...]