Articles by Jenny Williamson

Genn and I visited Corfu this spring. It’s the northernmost and largest of the Ionian Greek islands, facing northwestern Greece and Albania to the east. It’s a gorgeous [...Read More...]

First the bad news: we’re taking a break. Genn and I are taking the rest of August off. We’re still new at this process, and figuring out how to fit podcasting in with [...Read More...]

This is yet another of those episodes where Genn and I are amazed that this stuff actually happened. That applies to most of our episodes, though–we’re basically [...Read More...]

In 450 AD, the Imperial Princess Honoria–daughter of Galla Placidia–was desperate to escape her arranged marriage. So she made an indecent proposal–to [...Read More...]

He was a fierce barbarian warlord—a man who had stood between his people and the Roman Empire since the sack of Rome. She was a Roman Imperial princess with a core of iron [...Read More...]

**SWOON** we just cannot get enough of ancient-history romance. Also, here is Alaric, rising out of the water to wreak havoc on the countryside after Wallia sells his people [...Read More...]

On August 24, 410 AD, Alaric and the Visigoths sacked the city of Rome. Before he sacked it, he starved it. Before that, he went toe to toe with the Roman Empire for fifteen [...Read More...]

OK. I wasn’t going to do this (this is Jenny writing), but Genn insisted that I include my ultra-secret Alaric theme song, “Meridian” by Zola [...Read More...]

We started off this episode discussing the Imperial Walkers in Star Wars and how they hearken back to war elephants on the ancient battlefield–the animators even [...Read More...]

In this episode, the epic story of the elephant of war continues. Join noted elephant adventurers King Pyrrhus of Epirus (he of the Pyrrhic victory), Julius Caesar, Hannibal [...Read More...]