Articles by Jenny Williamson

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She’s the Tenth Muse, Western literature’s first lyric poet, and a woman who openly, unabashedly loved women and wrote about it–in an extremely patriarchal [...Read More...]

What can we learn about the lives of women in the ancient world–both religious and secular–when we delve into mythology? In this episode, we talk to Jennifer [...Read More...]

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Janus is the two-faced god of the Roman pantheon. He was the god of beginnings and endings, of dual natures, of passageways and passage through time. He’s the god of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Thank you so much for joining us on this end-of-the-year journey! Here are our sources for this episode: Livy: The History of Rome (Benjamin Oliver Foster [...Read More...]

This year, we decided that the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a mythological foray into one of the most famous characters of the season: The Krampus. And some [...Read More...]

How did sex workers in ancient Greece and Rome manage their periods? What were the most popular fashions for pubic hair? What underwear was everyone wearing? And how did sex [...Read More...]

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Despite inspiring desire in people of all genders, Aphrodite is often depicted as a cisgender woman. But not always. Ancient writers tell us of mystery cults that worshipped [...Read More...]