roman history

Become a Patron! Go here to order Barry Strauss’s latest book: The War that Made the Roman Empire: Marc Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium. And check out his [...Read More...]

This week, we’re taking a bit of a detour into a previous, much-loved topic: Marc Antony, Cleopatra, and How it All Went Wrong. In this episode, we return to the beach at [...Read More...]

Not only was abortion broadly legal in ancient Greece and Rome, but some of the methods used were surprisingly similar to today. And the Bible doesn’t mention it at [...Read More...]

This episode is part of our abortion rights takeover series. It was originally dropped on our Patreon. It deals with the miracle plant of ancient Greece and Rome: Silphium. [...Read More...]

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What happened to people in ancient Rome who were freed from slavery? Turns out there were still invisible threads–economic pressures, imbalances of status, and debts [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our ancient sources include: The Historia Augusta (David Magie translation) Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History (C.H. Oldfather translation) Julius [...Read More...]

Janus is the two-faced god of the Roman pantheon. He was the god of beginnings and endings, of dual natures, of passageways and passage through time. He’s the god of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Thank you so much for joining us on this end-of-the-year journey! Here are our sources for this episode: Livy: The History of Rome (Benjamin Oliver Foster [...Read More...]

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