Articles by Jenny Williamson

Become a Patron! Here’s a video that does a great job of summing up the Second Servile War: Our ancient sources include: Diodorus Siculus’ Library of History (G. [...Read More...]

The First Servile War started in 135 BC—about 62 years before Spartacus led his rebellion. It lasted about twice as long as the Spartacus war, and involved hundreds of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here’s a neat video of the events of the First Servile War: Our ancient sources include: Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Roman Antiquities (Earnest Cary [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! If you haven’t checked out Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby!: yet, you’ve got some serious bingeing in front of you! Here are some great places [...Read More...]

This week, Ancient History Fangirl teams up with Liv Albert from Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! to drink wine, drop some f-bombs, and dish about everyone’s favorite god of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! So, our past few episodes were recorded before the coronavirus hit us where we lived. We wanted to talk to our audience about what we’re up to, how [...Read More...]

In our last episode we talked about the journey Dionysus took to become a god. We followed his travels across the Mediterranean as he went on an epic quest to spread the [...Read More...]

Forget what you thought you knew about Dionysus and his cozy wine-drinking image. This is the Dionysus of Thrace. The Dionysus of Mithradates. Of Spartacus. Of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! It’s the end of Season 4! And once again, we’ve over-promised on this season. (Or, perhaps more accurately, completely misjudged how many [...Read More...]

Our only explanation for this episode is that it was Jenny’s birthday–and she wanted to have some friends over. So we invited Katy and Nathan from Queens Podcast [...Read More...]