Articles by Jenny Williamson

The First Servile War started in 135 BC—about 62 years before Spartacus led his rebellion. It lasted about twice as long as the Spartacus war, and involved hundreds of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here’s a neat video of the events of the First Servile War: Our ancient sources include: Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Roman Antiquities (Earnest Cary [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! If you haven’t checked out Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby!: yet, you’ve got some serious bingeing in front of you! Here are some great places [...Read More...]

This week, Ancient History Fangirl teams up with Liv Albert from Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! to drink wine, drop some f-bombs, and dish about everyone’s favorite god of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! So, our past few episodes were recorded before the coronavirus hit us where we lived. We wanted to talk to our audience about what we’re up to, how [...Read More...]

In our last episode we talked about the journey Dionysus took to become a god. We followed his travels across the Mediterranean as he went on an epic quest to spread the [...Read More...]

Forget what you thought you knew about Dionysus and his cozy wine-drinking image. This is the Dionysus of Thrace. The Dionysus of Mithradates. Of Spartacus. Of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! It’s the end of Season 4! And once again, we’ve over-promised on this season. (Or, perhaps more accurately, completely misjudged how many [...Read More...]

Our only explanation for this episode is that it was Jenny’s birthday–and she wanted to have some friends over. So we invited Katy and Nathan from Queens Podcast [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! So after all that, you DEFINITELY want to check out Queens Podcast, right? Yep. We thought so. Here’s the recipe for the cocktail we all made. Super [...Read More...]