Beware the Wrath of the Furies, Screaming for Blood, Euripides’ Orestes (Part 1)

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Conversations: Even Women Had Names, Athenian Women (Without Husbands) w/ Katherine Backler

Liv speaks with expert Katherine Backler about all the lives and lore of the very REAL women of ancient Athens, from the the beautifully mundane to the righteously remembered. Katherine is the author of a new book on the lives of Athenian women, Athena's Sisters. This is the (inc ...  Show more

Hey Guys, There’s Mice in this One!! (Herodotus The Histories Book 2, Part 4)

We are finally at the end of book 2 of Herodotus' Histories!! Yaayy!! Go us, it took us a bit, but it was such a fun little journey full of insanity and hippos that are definitly not hippos and perhaps just a horse chillin in the lake but no I need to let this go. It's too much. ...  Show more

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