Articles by Jenny Williamson

What do you know about Yule? Maybe a lot. The holiday is widely celebrated in Scandinavian countries, and it’s an important part of Wiccan and Pagan tradition. But for [...Read More...]

After four years of marriage with Octavia, Marc Antony followed Cleopatra to Alexandria—and settled into life there. He oversaw festivals and athletic contests, cheered [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! We begin this week’s Show Notes once again with a rendition of “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”–this time a cover by Frazey Ford: Our [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Once again, we begin this week’s Show Notes with the obligatory playing of “Lovers in a Dangerous Time.” This time it’s the excellent [...Read More...]

When Cleopatra and Marc Antony met by the River Tarsus, Antony was smitten. And when Cleopatra went back to Alexandria, he forgot about invading Parthia and followed her [...Read More...]

Last time we covered vampires, we were struck by the haunting connection between vampire myths and real disease. Between that and the many vampire myths from around the world [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here’s the previous episode we ran on vampires. And check out Tiny Vampires with Raven Forrest Fruscalzo! Here’s her Halloween episode on what [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! We begin this week’s Show Notes with an obligatory playing of “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” by Bruce Cockburn: And, ladies and gentlepeople, [...Read More...]

Shakespeare wrote about them. Hollywood glamorized them. For thousands of years, they’ve come down to us as the ultimate star-crossed lovers: the Ptolemaic queen [...Read More...]

The romance between Marc Antony and Cleopatra has beguiled us for centuries. What most people don’t realize is that when Marc Antony met Cleopatra, he was already [...Read More...]