Heteras, las cortesanas de Grecia

La leyenda ha hecho de Margaretha Zelle, la famosa bailarina Mata Hari, un sinónimo de mujer fatal y espía traidora. Hoy en día, sin embargo, muchos piensan que su muerte ante un pelotón de fusilamiento fue resultado de un proceso injusto. 

El garum era una salsa usada como condimento, eso sí, tan del gusto de los paladares antiguos que se convirtió en un producto básico en la gastronomía romana. 

The ancient Greeks weren't all gods and monsters. Herodotus was the world's first historian, he travelled the region writing down stories of the recent past. We discuss how he accounts for some of the most famous myths of the Greek world, and some of the badass women he wrote abo ...  Show more

Uniquely in the ancient world, women from Sparta had extraordinary rights and freedom. Relatively speaking. They were educated: they learnt to dance, sing, recite poetry and to keep fit, in a regime where physical beauty and feminine strength were prized. They were not expected t ...  Show more

In this episode, we take a look at Creation, according to the Greeks; the Titanomachy, the Gigantomachy, and the ascendancy of the Olympian Gods; the creation of the first humans; the story of Prometheus and the first woman, Pandora; Deucalion and the great flood; and the progeni ...  Show more

This is often held up as one of history’s great love stories – Plutarch wrote that Pericles kissed Aspasia every single day. And that’s very sweet and romantic, but their high-profile relationship was central to a key period in Greek history. Learn more about your ad-choices at h ...  Show more