Articles by Jenny Williamson

Become a Patron! Check out Nikita Gill’s work! She publishes poetry on her Instagram and she has a number of published volumes. Ancient History Fangirl is a proud [...Read More...]

This week we thought we’d do something a little different–and bring you a sneak peek of our audiobook version of Women of Myth. This version is available for preorder, [...Read More...]

We’re joined today by Sara Richard—our Eisner and Ringo Award–nominated illustrator for the Women of Myth series. Sara worked with us to create the amazing [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Check out Sara Richard’s other work! She illustrated Liv Albert’s book Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook, as well as [...Read More...]

This episode originally appeared on our Patreon! We’re releasing it on our main feed because we also include Atargatis in Women of Myth. We hope you enjoy! The [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Check out Creepy Conversations podcast! Listen to their episodes or check out the extra content on their Patreon–they also make videos! Ancient History [...Read More...]

This week, we explore monster mythology from countries all over southeast Asia—and we invited Nikki and Kalai from the Creepy Conversations podcast to come on our show and [...Read More...]

Imagine a desert stretching over 1,500 miles along the Peruvian coastline, between the high Andes to the east and the vast Pacific coastline to the west. A place of brilliant [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here is Jenny’s favorite Nazca geoglyph: Here’s that adorable lobster! Here is the Pampas cat. This is one of the Paracas glyphs! Here is a pic [...Read More...]

This year, we’ve found one of the most metal and wild Yuletide goddesses yet – Frau Holle. Human sacrifices, spindles in yer vag, plague, starvation, caves of offerings [...Read More...]