Articles by Jenny Williamson

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...]

After the disaster at Actium, Marc Antony’s entire army–100,000 strong–surrendered to Octavian. Marc Antony and Cleopatra fled to Alexandria to negotiate [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! This time, we begin the Show Notes with something a little more upbeat (which we could all use after that ending): Marc Antony’s romantic theme song. [...Read More...]

As Marc Antony and Cleopatra settled into life in Alexandria, Octavian whipped up a toxic garbage fire of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia in Rome–and then declared [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! We begin this week’s Show Notes with an obligatory playing of “Lovers in a Dangerous Time:” this time a live version by Bruce Cockburn at [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! We hope you enjoyed that as much as we did. This is a great time to check out The Exploress! Here’s a VERY amusing subreddit and also a Twitter account [...Read More...]

Why were Civil War-era female spies so successful in smuggling guns across enemy lines? What secret superpower gave Scythian women an edge in battle? In heavily patriarchal [...Read More...]