ancient Athens

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Venus and Aphrodite: History of a Goddess by Bettany Hughes Hesiod’s Theogony (Hugh G. Evelyn-White translation) [...Read More...]

If you know anything about Aphrodite, then you know she is the ancient Greek goddess primarily associated with love, beauty, sex, reproduction, and passion. She was also the [...Read More...]

Liv Albert from Let’s Talk About Myths Baby! has an obsession, and the name of that obsession is Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. This game immerses you immediately in [...Read More...]

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Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Plutarch’s Life of Pericles (Bernadotte Perrin translation) Plato’s Menexenus (Benjamin Jowett translation) [...Read More...]

Last week, we told you about the lives of five elite courtesans in Classical Athens. But we left someone out–perhaps the most elite hetaera of them all. Long-term [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World, Essays elited by Christopher A. Faraone & Laura K. McClure [...Read More...]

In our last few episodes on sex workers in ancient Greece, we tried to paint a picture of a group of women, in some cases, with more freedom and independence than most in the [...Read More...]

The symposia–all-male drinking parties–were the playground and hunting ground of Athens’ elite courtesans. But they had their dangers, too. Join us as we [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World, Essays elited by Christopher A. Faraone & Laura K. McClure [...Read More...]