Podcasts

In the last episode of our season, we’re taking an in-depth look at the life and writing of Ovid: pickup artist, poet extraordinaire, and all-around good-time guy who knew [...Read More...]

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this brilliant crossover episode! Our very own Genn McMenemy made a guest appearance on Liv Albert’s [...Read More...]

What can we believe about the Odyssey? This is the question posed by bestselling author Liv Albert, host of the Let’s Talk About Myth’s Baby! podcast, and author of three [...Read More...]

Among the poets of early Augustan Rome, Virgil had a niche: nostalgia. He wrote poems about the Roman countryside, farmers, and a mourned, simpler past that may have never [...Read More...]

Short answer: no. Long answer: no, and they didn’t function that well in pluralistic Roman society, either. Many of the qualities of high-control [...Read More...]

We are thrilled to welcome USA Today bestselling author Eva Leigh to the podcast. Eva has had two recent releases that piqued our interest: The Sea Witch (about a lady pirate [...Read More...]

ne of the most famous quotes from Augustus’ reign was “I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.” And Augustus did that—he had a real thing for [...Read More...]

Have you noticed that our tech overlords cannot be normal about the Roman Empire? Elon Musk has approximately 14 known children, which he refers to as his “Legion.” Mark [...Read More...]

Slavery touched every part of life in ancient Rome. Depending on the time period and location, as many as one in ten or one in three people was enslaved. How does it warp a [...Read More...]

In our last episode, Livia and Octavia were at each other’s throats over which one of their sons would be chosen as Augustus’ heir. The unfortunate thing is that the [...Read More...]