Articles by Jenny Williamson

Become a Patron! Our modern sources for this episode included: The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe The Celts: Search for a Civilization by Alice Roberts Adrian [...Read More...]

This episode is a whole divided into three parts. In Part 1, we send Julius Caesar and his army on a collision course toward the people of Gaul. This is an unstoppable force [...Read More...]

What can a story from ancient Ireland tell us about the Gauls before Caesar? Maybe a lot. The Hound of Ulster is synonymous with Irish history. But it also draws back the [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Thanks for joining us on that wild chariot ride! We will seriously never stop hearing Genn’s Warp Spasm Voice in our heads. It narrates our every [...Read More...]

In 58 BC, Julius Caesar set his sights on conquering the Gauls. But who were the Gauls? They didn’t write things down—and much of what we know about them comes from [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! First things first. Before we get into our sources, listen to a pro musician playing a modern reconstruction of an ancient carnyx:And here are some images of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here are some of the important people in this story. Crassus: You’ve been Crassus rolled. Pompey: Always with the widow’s peak. Caesar: Cicero: [...Read More...]

After an epic quarter-life crisis, Julius Caesar returned to Rome and started to kick things up a notch—winning honors, elections, and the love of the public. But as his [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! First off, here’s the Baby Shark song. BOOM, now it’s in your head. You’re welcome. Also, here’s Mountain to Move: So here are some [...Read More...]

Julius Caesar came of age in a Rome where severed heads hung in the Rostra, bodies choked the Tiber, and murderous mobs stalked the streets. Even at 16, this was [...Read More...]