Religion

One voice, in order, from the Stone Age forward, and long enough to stop for a fifty-minute episode on the symposium when the story reaches one. A hundred and twelve numbered episodes so far and still running.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey discuss Hesiod's Theogony, covering the role of the Muses, the primordial god Chaos, Eros as a binding force, and Zeus as bringer of civilization.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Frank Grabowski open Euripides' The Bacchae, tracing Dionysus' transformation from Homer's jovial wine god into a cruel and diabolical figure, in a tragedy exploring the fragility of societal order.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

A roundtable of friends wraps up Ascend's exploration of the Greek plays, from the Oresteia and Prometheus Bound to the Theban plays and the Bacchae, tracing themes of divinity, fate, and justice.

Part of Literature and History

Nonnus' fifth-century Dionysiaca, the last epic from Greco-Roman antiquity to survive in full, tells of the wine god Dionysus' journey eastward, to India.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With David Niles

Dcn. Harrison Garlick, David Niles of the Catholic Man Show, and Dr. Frank Grabowski open Sophocles' Antigone, called the dark sign from the gods, as a meditation on piety.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Dr. Frank Grabowski and Thomas Lackey join Dcn. Garlick to discuss Book 11 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus fills a trench with blood to summon the prophet Tiresias in the underworld.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Gregory McBrayer

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Gregory McBrayer discuss Books 9 and 10 of the Odyssey, the first half of Odysseus' own story, covering the lotus eaters, the cyclops, and Circe.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With David Niles

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Adam Minihan, David Niles, Thomas Lackey, and Frank Grabowski close the Odyssey with Hermes leading the suitors' souls to Hades and Athena brokering peace in Ithaca.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Grayson Quay

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan are joined by Grayson Quay to discuss Book 5 of the Iliad, where Athena tells Diomedes to fight the Trojans and to fight no immortal save Aphrodite.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Critias tells of Atlantis, a wealthy society descended from the god Poseidon that lost its harmony to material wealth and brought upon itself the punishment of Zeus, disappearing in a great earthquake 9,000 years earlier.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Critias asks whether Atlantis's cataclysmic fall nine millennia earlier was real or a model civilization warning against the lust for possessions, drawing parallels to the Meno, Timaeus and Phaedrus.

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato

Plato's Euthyphro, about to prosecute his own father for impiety, prompts Socrates to mention his accuser Meletus, raising the Euthyphro dilemma: is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or pious because it is loved.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

The podcast concludes Euripides' The Bacchae with the tragic descent of King Pentheus and the Bacchae as a parasite upon society and the question of piety under an evil god.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Luke Heintschel

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Luke Heintschel, the Academic Headmaster of Coeur du Christ Academy, discuss Books 11 and 12 of the Odyssey, following Odysseus' katabasis into the underworld.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Glenn Arbery

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Glenn Arbery, and Dr. Frank Grabowski discuss Book 5 of the Odyssey and why Odysseus rejects Calypso's offer to make him a god.

Part of Literature and History

The violent and spellbinding middle books of Homer's Iliad, Books 9 through 16, leave the listener with questions about Homer's theology, in this episode of Literature and History.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Joey Spencer

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, Thomas Lackey, and Dr. Joey Spencer open Plato's Euthyphro, a dialogue on piety, discussing piety as a political problem.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

This is the Dionysus of Thrace, of Mithradates, of Spartacus and of revolutionaries across the classical world, the story of a wandering god who inspired people to rise against injustice.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Evan Amato

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan welcome Evan Amato to discuss Book 5 of the Odyssey, where Zeus, at Athena's pleading, agrees that Calypso must let Odysseus leave her island.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With David Niles

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Adam Minihan, Thomas Lackey, and David Niles discuss Book 12 of the Iliad, the gods' dispute over the wall of the Achaeans, and Hector disregarding a bird-sign.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski discusses Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, showing how the Greeks conflated magic, myth, religion and history in ancient Greek mythology.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Orpheus and his Mysteries, the Orphic Hymns and Theogony, omens, divination and itinerant seers such as Teiresias, Mopsos and Kalchas, and the oracles at Delphi, in Boiotia, and at Didyma and Klaros.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was built of priceless hippopotamus ivory, tall as a three-storey building, and had to be oiled daily in the heat so it would not crack.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey open the Odyssey with Book One, discussing the invocation to the Muses, Zeus' comment on fate, and what happened to Agamemnon.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Joey Spencer

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Joey Spencer finish Plato's Euthyphro, exploring piety, morality, and the divine through the famous Euthyphro Dilemma.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Pavlos Papadopoulos

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos, and Dr. Frank Grabowski open a new twelve-week study of the Odyssey with Book One, calling it one of the greatest texts in the Western canon.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Eli Stone

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Eli Stone discuss Book 8 of the Odyssey, where a bard's song of Troy makes Odysseus weep and the bard returns to sing of Aphrodite's adultery against Hephaestus.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

The third episode traces how the temple of Artemis at Ephesus was built, who burned it down, who rebuilt it, and what happened there beyond worship.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski discusses the underworld and afterlife myth in Plato's Phaedo, exploring how myth relates to philosophy and how Plato uses myth throughout his dialogues.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Sixty-five minutes of story open on Homer's invocation of the Muse before Achilles learns of Patroclus' death at Hector's hands, then twenty-five minutes of commentary follow the psyche's journey to the gates of Hades.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

A giant statue supposed to depict the god Helios was once pictured straddling the harbor at Rhodes, holding aloft a torch, though some said it looked more like Alexander the Great, on an island full of pirates and smugglers.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam discuss Theseus, styled here as Heracles 2.0, weighing Greek geography, myth soup movies, and the film Immortals starring Henry Cavill.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Pavlos Papadopoulos

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan welcome Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos to discuss Book 13 of the Odyssey, where the Phaeacians bring Odysseus home to Ithaca and Poseidon punishes them for it.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski contextualizes Homer's Iliad through the Trojan War narrative in the Library of Apollodorus, tracing the major gods, goddesses and characters in that mythic tradition.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

The episode explores the mythology of a genderqueer Achilles and the man who loved him, Patroclus, among the queer myths that break the binary as the ancient Greeks saw it.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes, author of Stone Blind, argues ancient depictions do not always show Perseus as the hero of the Medusa myth, and that there is evidence that gorgons originally had a protective role in Greek iconography.

Part of Ancient History Hound

With Carla Ionescu

Guest expert Dr Carla Ionescu joins to discuss the goddess Artemis, uncovering aspects and associations often left in the background, from bloody rituals to a cake-based rescue.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Adam Minihan, Thomas Lackey, and Dr. Frank Grabowski finish Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, where Clytemnestra dominates her husband through murder, manipulation, and denial.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Aphrodite, one of the most powerful goddesses of the Olympian pantheon, was a free and unattached woman whose sexual agency directly threatened the patriarchy, and the stories about her show how the Greeks felt about love and lust.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski discusses Hesiod's Theogony, introducing the first generation of gods and goddesses in the Greek Pantheon.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam break down the myths behind the Netflix series Kaos, weighing Prometheus against Zeus, trans people in myth, prophecy interpretation, and Hera's creepy tongue room.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

The labors continue for the famous hero Heracles as the episode asks whether he will be granted his place among the gods, whether Hebe will serve him wine from her godly chalice, and whether Eurystheus will finish his petting zoo.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The myths, iconography and worship of Hekate, goddess of magic, crossroads, ghosts and necromancy, her links with Artemis, Selene, the Erinyes, Kirke and Medeia, and the monstrous craft of curse tablets, binding spells, potions and amulets.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sam and Sara explore the Amazons behind Wonder Woman, weighing misogynistic geographers, Artemis's rage, Scythian warrior women, and the myth of Actaeon from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Part of Greeced Lightning

In the series premiere, Sara Hales-Brittain teaches Luke and Sam the legend of the Trojan War, the epic cycle, and Paris's past, weighing the film Troy against the Iliad.

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

With Korshi Dosoo

Papyrologist Korshi Dosoo discusses the history, interpretation and makeup of the Greek Magical Papyri, starting in ancient Egypt and reaching all the way to Aleister Crowley and the Mormons.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

This final Wonder on the list of Seven Wonders stood where seawater meets freshwater, and in that primal land the legend grew of a divine huntress: Artemis of Ephesus, fierce protectress of women and children.

Part of Ad Navseam

The episode wraps up Lucian's account of Alexander the False Prophet in Abonoteichus, where the shyster teams up with apprentice Cocconas to go a-bilking with fake eggs, rumors of Asclepius and puppet snakes.

Part of Ad Navseam

Demeter gives the infant Demophoon nightly fire purgations for his mortality, is caught in the act, and decides to set up a cult at Eleusis, while Persphone must beware the pomegranate.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam trace Homer's Odyssey through the loose adaptation O Brother, Where Art Thou?, covering tricksy heroes, the Underworld, and Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey and Edith Hamilton's Mythology.

Part of Our Fake History

The so-called Olympic Spirit of fair play is said to descend from the ancient Greeks, yet ancient Olympia ran on a conquer-or-die mentality that celebrated athletes who sacrificed their lives for victory.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The myths, iconography and cultic worship of Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, love, sexual pleasure and procreation.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Nikita Gill

Award-winning poet Nikita Gill, whose work is haunting and fiercely feminist, joins to compare the goddesses, heroines and monsters of Greek and Hindu mythology.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Atalanta, created in the image of an ancient Artemis who had a strong association with bears, is discussed as a gender rebel and sexually liberated heroine, perhaps an older image of that goddess.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam chase the Golden Fleece through 1963's Jason and the Argonauts, tracing Hecate worship, stop-motion magic, the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, and Phineus and the Harpies.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

A queen's terrifying nightmare, priests who discern what it means and a king faced with a soul-wrenching dilemma, then sixteen minutes of commentary on the role of Fate in the Trojan War epic.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

In the Letter to Menoeceus, Epicurus argues that the gods are real and immortal and blessed, and that the impious man is he who attaches to the gods the beliefs of the many.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, sex and passion, was also the patron goddess of sex workers in the Classical world, and the Romans transformed her into Venus.

Part of Ad Navseam

Socrates describes an inner daimon that only seeks to drive him away from something, a voice the guys compare to the apostle Paul's conscience in Romans, within Plato's Apology.

Part of Greeced Lightning

With Jackie Banigan

Guest Jackie Banigan joins Sara and Sam to explore the myth of Orpheus as the rock star of ancient Greece, with Eurydice's loss, the Argonauts saved by his song, and the Parisian demimonde of Moulin Rouge.

Part of Ad Navseam

At Epidauros, invalids sought healing from Asclepius in the abaton, near a theater, stadium and the tholos where his remains were said to be buried.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam dish up the myth soup that is Percy Jackson, with Phidias's Athena Parthenos, Chiron's anatomy, Athena and Poseidon competing to be patron of Athens, and Aeschylus's Eumenides.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam tour Disney's Hercules as Sara teaches everything about this himbo hero, with Sophocles' Women of Trachis on his death and Euripides' Alcestis, where he saves the heroine.

Part of Our Fake History

The original members of the International Olympic Committee believed the ancient Greek games at Olympia were noble expressions of sporting virtue, but the real ancient Olympics were rough, unhygienic, often corrupt and frequently violent.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Emily Wilson

Homer's Odyssey continues with translator Emily Wilson, examining the oikos or estate built on violence, its link to xenia or hospitality that forges military alliances, plus status distinctions and the role of the gods.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Book 12 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus survives the Sirens and Scylla only to lose his last ship after his men eat the sun god's cattle.

Part of Ad Navseam

Consulting the oracle of Apollo at Delphi meant climbing Mount Parnassus, making purifications and offering sacrifices first, and an answer no more straight-forward than poor old Croesus got.

Part of Greeced Lightning

The hosts end their time with the Titans on 2012's Wrath of the Titans, taking in Pandora, Hephaestus and Rip Torn's Greek God kudos, with Pseudo-Apollodorus's Library and the Gigantomachy frieze of the Pergamon Altar.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam open the Titans saga with 1981's Clash of the Titans, tracing Perseus and Andromeda through Ovid and Ray Harryhausen, plus ancient art, special effects, and Laurence Olivier.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The myths, iconography and cultic worship of Hera, queen of the heavens and wife of Zeus, and guardian of women, marriage, childbirth and the family unit.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Heracles, son of Zeus and the strong man of Greek myth, lived for a time as a woman, submissive to a powerful female who took up his lionskin and club.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Ten years after their first episode, the hosts revisit Persephone and Hades, looking at the same myth again through a decade of new experiences and life changes.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey discuss Book 3 of the Odyssey, where old King Nestor from the Iliad helps Telemachus and recalls the Achaeans' wrath from Athena.

Part of Ad Navseam

In 415 BC, as Nicias opposes it, Alcibiades persuades Athens to invade Sicily, then faces accusations after the herms are mutilated and maybe even a drunken satire of sacred mysteries performed.

Part of Ad Navseam

Ancient Greek parents frightened children with the blood-thirsty Mormo, the seductive Lamia and the dung-footed Empousa, and the guys also wander into Athens' most-haunted house, watching for dead relatives.

Part of Young Heretics

Odysseus meets the shadows of the dead in Book 11 of the Odyssey, forcing him and Homer to confront the possibility that life ends in nothing but worm food.

Part of Ad Navseam

Aeschylus has Io, tormented by a gadfly, show pity for the chained Prometheus, testing Stephen White's thesis that the play reinforces ancient Greek gender roles.

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

With Dylan Burns

Dylan Burns, Copticist and scholar of Platonistic esotericism, discusses the Platonistic Sethian tractates and the movements behind them, covering ancient texts, methodological distinctions, cosmic catastrophe and salvation.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic reach the conclusion of Homer's Odyssey, tracing the second half of Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca and asking what the epic's account of the Olympian gods indicates about Ancient Greek religion.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Artemis of Ephesus was older than her Classical Greek counterpart, rooted in the ancient Near East and cousin to deities such as Kybele and Egyptian Bastet.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With David Lunt

David Lunt's Crown Games of Ancient Greece (U Arkansas Press, 2022) covers nine centuries of Panhellenic festivals for Zeus at Olympia, Apollo at Delphi, and Poseidon at the Isthmian Games.

Part of Ad Navseam

Lucian of Samosata, a second-century satirist born in the further reaches of Asia Minor, wrote A True Story and took on the fraudulent shyster Alexander, with Erasmus and Thomas More somehow involved.

Part of Ad Navseam

With Deborah Roberts

Deborah Roberts of Haverford College helps open Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, with the dialogue between smith god Hephaestus and the personifications Power and Violence, and how this telling differs from Hesiod.

Part of Ad Navseam

Aristophanes' Frogs imagines Dionysus, god of tragedy, descending into Hades in 405 BC to bring the recently dead Euripides back, since there are now no good poets left.

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

With Christian Hervik Bull

Christian Hervik Bull discusses the way of Hermes in antiquity in the final Hermetica-series episode, covering renunciation, immortalisation, hypercosmic ascent and animated statues.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic explore Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstasy, revelry and madness, and the tragedy of the Bacchae, examining why female cults built around him were believed to be integral to the survival of Athens.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Ken Brown

Ken Brown returns to discuss more Aesop fables and determine their morals with the host, an episode said to contain animals, gods, murder and gore.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Liv Albert

Liv Albert from Let's Talk About Myths Baby joins to explore how Dionysus subverted Roman patriarchy, plus theatre practices of the ancient Greeks, alongside retellings of Medea, Medusa and the playwright Euripides.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan welcome Thomas Lackey to discuss Book 14 of the Iliad, where Love and Sleep conquer Zeus in what Adam calls one of the funniest books so far.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic conclude their journey into Greek mythology with the quest of Jason and the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece, asking whether the Greeks still worshipped the Olympian gods in the more skeptical Hellenistic age.

Part of Ad Navseam

Relying on David Konstan, the guys take up Ocean and the chorus of Oceanids in Prometheus Bound and compare it with Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Euripides' Hippolytus, through Deborah Roberts' translation.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This part of the Diogenes of Oinoanda inscription argues for the superiority of the Epicurean view of divinity over the supernatural religious beliefs of much of the rest of the world.

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

With Bink Hallum

Bink Hallum, whose doctoral research centred on the Arabic Zosimean corpus, explores astral influences, daimones and demons, talismans and Enochic ideas in Zosimus of Panopolis.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Herakles, also known as Hercules: his iconography, early myths, twelve labors and later life, his worship as a pan-Hellenic divine hero, some of his cults, and his role as a founder of many Greek cities.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Forty-six minutes of story cover a priest of Apollo whose request Agamemnon refuses, then sixteen minutes of commentary set out the unitarian and separatist arguments over whether one Homer composed the Iliad around 700 BCE.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Lindsey Mazurek

Lindsey Mazurek, assistant professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University, traces how Isis worship under the Roman Empire intersected with constructions of Greek identity, the subject of her book Isis in a Global Empire.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick explores Book 10 of the Odyssey alone, where King Aeolus gives Odysseus a bag of winds and the goddess Circe turns his men into pigs.

Part of Ad Navseam

This archaic hymn to Demeter, running four hundred ninety-five lines, may serve mystery-cult ritual, and gets compared here to the cults of Mithras and Dionysus.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke and Sam break down the myth of Pygmalion, the original incel, with ancient pickup artists, blurred lines between sculpture and real life, the movie Lars and the Real Girl, and Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Part of Young Heretics

Three women, Calypso, Nausicaa and Athena, walk beside Odysseus on his way back to Ithaca, each loving him without holding on as he recovers who he is after war and wandering.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Hades, Lord of the Underworld, the Greek perception of the afterlife, necromancy, how one makes a katabasis, and Homer's underworld in Book Eleven of the Odyssey compared with Book Six of Virgil's Aeneid.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Forty-five minutes of story confront Agamemnon with the sacrifice of his daughter at Aulis, then sixteen minutes of commentary compare how Aeschylus in 458 BCE and Euripides in 405 BCE reshaped the same sacrifice into their own plays.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic trace how Hesiod first recorded the story of Zeus and the war between the gods and the Titans, and ask whether people in ancient Greece really believed these stories of gods, heroes and great wars.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Achilles driving half the Trojan army back toward Troy over the plains and the other half into the Xanthus river and his fight with the river god in Book 21.

Part of Ad Navseam

In the underworld Odysseus meets Epicaste, Antiope and Alcmene, then hears Agamemnon's grim homecoming tale, finds a silent Ajax Telamon, and sees Sisyphus, the original rock-n-roller, eternally doomed.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

In Book X of Plato's Republic, the discussion covers his attack on imitative poetry, his argument for the soul's immortality, and the strange myth of a man named Er.

Part of A Temple Wild: Greek Mythology and the Mediterranean Landscape

Mira Karakitsou tours the plants of the Greek Underworld, the rivers and entrances to Hades, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and Persephone's connection to the changing seasons.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The Attic agricultural year month by month from sowing to sowing, with particular attention to the Thesmophoria and the Eleusinian Mysteries and a walking tour of Eleusis, plus a dozen or so other festivals, the Dionysian ones excluded.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Jennifer Saint

Bestselling author Jennifer Saint discusses Hera, trapped in a toxic marriage with the King of the Gods, and asks whether her story is more than misplaced vengeance.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Aphrodite, goddess of Sex, Love, and Not Exactly Rock and Roll, gets her turn, with talk of why parents warned about sea foam and a tour of the Poetry Corner.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Jennifer Frey

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Dr. Jennifer Frey to discuss Book 20 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus prays to Zeus for an omen and the prophet Theoclymenus sees the house drenched in blood.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

Bees walks through the story of Oedipus, an ancient Greek figure who refuses to listen to the oracles, with the hosts repeating the same advice: listen to the prophets.

Part of Our Fake History

Attacked by female warriors in South America, conquistador Francisco Orellana thought of the Amazons of Greek mythology, ferocious female warriors at the edge of the known world, and the encounter inspired the name of the Amazon river.

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

With Frederico Fidler

Frederico Fidler on Sallustius' On the Gods and the World, a short manual of a popular nature outlining how Platonist metaphysics work and how traditional Hellenistic religion is thought to mirror those metaphysical realities.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This part opens chapter thirteen on the true piety, from knowledge, existence and form of the gods to prophecy and prayer.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam bring hot takes on the Broadway musical Hadestown, recapping the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice before wedding night ceremonies, opera adaptations, unionizing, and the perfect song.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Possible encounters between Buddhists and Greeks: the Milindapañha portrays Menander I as a Buddhist convert, Ashoka has his beliefs inscribed in Greek near Kandahar, and Gandharan sculptors turn Heracles into Heracles-Vajrapani.

Part of The Ancients

More than 2,000 years old, the Parthenon has served as temple, treasury, residence, church, mosque, gunpowder store and tourist site; Tristan Hughes joins Matt Lewis on the Echoes of History podcast to trace its long and fascinating story.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

If the listener thought Circe and Odysseus got steamy, Calypso raises the bar further, and the hosts also investigate what has been happening with Odysseus's family, Penelope and Telemachus.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Elyse John

In this gender-bent retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice, author Elyse John crafts warrior-poet Orphia's love for the shieldmaker Eurydicius, and the lasting power of women's voices, in a story of love, loss, grief and poetry.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton

Dr Mercedes Aguirre and Dr Richard Buxton explore the role of the Cyclopes in Greek mythology, asking whether they are malevolent, benign, or something else.

Part of Young Heretics

On the island of Aeaea, Odysseus must share the bed of the witch Circe, a trial that helps him find his way back into civilization after losing comrades to war.

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

Porphyry's Letter to Anebo and Iamblichus' responses to it are surveyed alongside the theological and practical approach of the De mysteriis, antiquity's greatest philosophic manifesto for addressative ritual practice.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The Phrygian goddess Kybele, her cult's arrival in Greece in the 6th century BC and influence on Dionysos, Agdistis and Attis, Dionysos and his companions, Euripides' The Bakkhai, and Dionysiac worship, particularly in Delphi, Boiotia and the Peloponnesos.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic trace the dazzling career of Alexander the Great, from Macedonia to his mysterious journey to the oracle at Siwa, asking whether he was man or god, visionary or blood-stained tyrant.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Katie Foster

The hosts discuss Hecate, goddess of witchcraft, and Nemesis, goddess of revenge, joined by special guest Katie Foster, an actress and comedian.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

The final Odyssey episode covers Book 24, asking why Athena intervenes so much and what the Odyssey is trying to say about justice, closing out the series.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Debbie Felton, Carolina López-Ruiz

Debbie Felton, Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Carolina López-Ruiz, Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, discuss monsters in classical myth, including López-Ruiz's chapter on the Sphinx.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

The goddess of compost finally makes an appearance: Demeter, in an episode that explains what the hosts mean when they whisper An ear of grain, cut in silence.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Book 8 of the Iliad, the turning tide of battle, whether the Achaeans truly need Achilles, and the relationship between Athena and Zeus.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Tristan Hughes, Sarah Iles Johnston

Professor Sarah Iles Johnson joins Tristan Hughes to unearth the origin of Hades, king of the Underworld in Ancient Greek mythology, and its myths of Orpheus, Eurydice and the Labours of Heracles.

Part of Young Heretics

The Judgment of Paris, the story that started it all in the Homeric universe, is revisited to ask whether Paris could have navigated the situation any better than he did.

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

Julian's esoteric religious and political formulation of Hellenism is discussed, reflecting on what happens when esoteric religions like Iamblichean theurgy and Christianity move from a small conclave into the corridors of power.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The myths, iconography and cultic worship of Hephaistos, god of fire, metallurgy and craftsmen, and Hermes, messenger god of cunning and deceit and protector of thieves, travelers, merchants, athletes and boundaries.

Part of Tides of History

With Fred Naiden

The episode presents Professor Fred Naiden's view of Alexander the Great as a deeply religious figure, arguing that his beliefs about religion were at the core of understanding his actions, unlike the warrior king so often seen in modern treatments.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

The olympian gods get a final push as Hermes, Aphrodite and Dionysus are on the docket, described as drinking wine while taking down names of people to escort to the underworld.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Ayana Gray

Bestselling author Ayana Gray, author of Beasts of Prey, joins to discuss her adult debut I Medusa, exploring the Gorgon as monster, mortal, sister and daughter.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Jennifer Saint

Bestselling author Jennifer Saint guides a discussion of Atalanta's heroine's journey, her connection to Artemis and an older concept of the feminine, plus what it was like being stuck on the Argo among so many men.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Tatiana Bur

Tatiana Bur's Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion (Cambridge UP, 2025) traces mechanical strategies in Greek religion, from the tragic deus ex machina to Hellenistic epigrams.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

While Socrates waits in line for his own trial, he meets Euthyphro, who plans to denounce his own father, and the two debate the definition of piety until Euthyphro excuses himself.

Part of The Ancients

With Sarah Iles Johnston

Hades is king of the dead and the underworld in ancient Greek mythology; Tristan Hughes and Prof Sarah Iles Johnson unearth his origin, define the underworld, and delve into myths like Orpheus and Eurydice, Achilles, and the Labours of Heracles.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Tristan Hughes, Michael Scott

Professor Michael Scott joins Tristan Hughes to trace Zeus, chief deity in Greek mythology, back to his grandparents Uranus and Gaia, and the prophecy that overthrew Uranus and was fated for Cronus.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This review of a key Epicurean doctrine holds that the universe is infinite and eternal and has no gods over it, in the episode that marks five full years of podcasting.

Part of Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

With Matteo Martelli

Matteo Martelli discusses the life, work and thought of Zosimus of Panopolis, the greatest alchemist of late antiquity.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Zeus in myth, iconography and cult: Indo-European sky god, keeper of order and justice, rain-making agricultural deity, his Arkadian worship tied to werewolf transformation and human sacrifice, the oracles at Dodona and Siwa, and the philosophical Zeus.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Joseph Scales on how the Jewish literary tradition, from the prophecies of Daniel to Josephus, viewed Antiochus IV Epiphanes as both incompetent ruler and great persecutor, and as the prototype of the Antichrist.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Thirty-eight minutes of story on a miraculous child who survives an angry demi-god, an icy immersion in a magic river and a deadly snake, then sixteen minutes of commentary on the popularity of Achilles stories.

Part of The Ancients

With Sarah Iles Johnston

Dionysus, known as the party god of ancient Greece associated with theatre and mysterious cults, is explored by Tristan Hughes and Dr Sarah Iles Johnston, starting with the horrific fate of King Pentheus after he banned the god's worship.

Part of The Ancients

With Michael Scott

Zeus, king of gods and men, has a tale of overthrowing fathers and seducing women both mortal and divine; Tristan Hughes and Michael Scott trace his origins, his grandparents Uranus and Gaia, and the family tree of the Olympians.

Part of The Ancients

With Owen Rees

Man's best friend was at people's sides in Ancient Greece too; Tristan and Dr Owen Rees discuss dog names, their function in Greek religion, and their possible deployment on the battlefield.

Part of HistoryExtra podcast

With Michael Scott, Hugh Thomas

Classical historian Michael Scott delves into the history of Delphi, the site of a renowned oracle in ancient Greece visited by many leading figures of the Greek and Roman worlds.

Part of Echoes of History

With Garrett Ryan

Assassin's Creed Odyssey recreates the sanctuary of Delphi, located high on the remote slopes of Mount Parnassus, in beautiful detail, letting players meet the Oracle herself, the most important soothsayer for the Ancient Greeks.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

With Shilo Brooks

Cyrus' empire ends badly in the final book, so the hosts ask whether Cyrus was happy, whether it is possible to rule human beings like a god and stay happy, and why such a cold king had two sons.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Michael Scott

Professor Michael Scott of Warwick University discusses ancient Delphi, sought for its oracle, host to games held every four years, and a hub for culture and information.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

The fifty-three-minute opener has an uninvited guest crash a wedding hosted by Zeus and hand over an unwelcome gift, setting the whole Trojan War epic in motion.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl · Two Millennial women on emperors, assassins and mythological mayhem; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Jennifer T. Roberts

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures · University lectures on philosophy and the humanities; only the Greek lectures are indexed

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures · University lectures on philosophy and the humanities; only the Greek lectures are indexed

Part of Ancient History Fangirl · Two Millennial women on emperors, assassins and mythological mayhem; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST · The Trojan War told in order, with commentary after each story

Part of Greeced Lightning · Myths and movies with a doctor of classics; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Our Fake History · Myths that pass for history; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Melinda Tracy Boyce

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Natalie D'Alacio

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore · A boozy dive into world mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Jake Lloyd

Part of The Ancients · History Hit's interview show; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Michael Scott

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast · Paul Bianchi teaches Sarah Oliver Greek mythology; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Noelle Ann Mabry

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas · Johanna Hanink talks with fellow Hellenists about their latest work

With Charlie Covell