The Pompeii Refugee Crisis (With Elodie Harper)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We’ve covered the deadly day in 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii in a suffocating layer of ash and pumice. But we haven’t c...
16 Nov 202353min
Greek Fire: Mystery Weapon of the Byzantines
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Greek fire was an incendiary weapon of the ancient world—and perhaps the sole reason that the Byzantine Empire stood long after the rest of...
9 Nov 20231h 7min
Vikings: Fact and Fiction (With Kelsey Fuller-Shafer)
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! When we talk about the Vikings, who are we talking about, exactly? What can we learn about Viking culture by looking at their myths? And wh...
2 Nov 20231h 1min
RE-RELEASE: Ancient Vampires: They Only Knock Once
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Communities all over the ancient world had a problem: their dead wouldn't stay in the ground. They rose up as shambolic corpses, gusts of w...
31 Okt 20231h 28min
History Daily: Great Fire of Rome
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Introducing History Daily, a podcast that tells the fascinating stories of what happened “on this day” in history, with host Lindsay Graham...
28 Okt 202323min
Cult of the Severed Head
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! The Celts of the Iron age—roughly 600s BC to 43 AD—had a real preoccupation with severed heads. They took heads in battle. They displayed t...
26 Okt 20231h 28min
RE-RELEASE: Werewolves of Wolf Mountain: Terrors of Ancient Greece
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! The werewolf myth as we know it today generally involves getting bitten by a werewolf, transforming during the full moon, and being very su...
24 Okt 20231h 20min
Catholic Werewolves
Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We’ve covered werewolves in the ancient world before—and their connection to the Berserker myth. But wait til you hear what happened to wer...
19 Okt 20231h 12min
