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In this episode, I discuss Zeus and his mortal amours and the children he begat with them. Swan, heifers, and satyrs, beware!
Sources:
Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. Vol. 1, Penguin Books, 1960.
GUERBER, H.A. Classical Mythology. Sterling Publishing Co, 2016.
Sears, Kathleen. Mythology 101: From Gods and Goddesses to Monsters and Mortals, Your Guide to Ancient Mythology. Adams Media, 2014.
Waterfield, Robin, and Kathryn Waterfield. The Greek Myths: Stories of the Greek Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold. Metro Books, 2011.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2025%3A19-34&version=NIV
Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site/
Show email: [email protected]
This show is produced and edited by me, Adrienne.
Artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters
Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)
Note: Image on episode was used with ChatGPT - statue of Zeus with his disguises (I will only be doing this for non-historical figures. All person that existed in history will have their associated artwork used - thank you!)
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Hi all! Sorry for the long wait to upload Zeus' sexcapades. In this episode, I discuss Zeus and his immortal amours and the children he begat with them. Part II to come soon with his mortal lovers!
Sources:
Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. Vol. 1, Penguin Books, 1960.
GUERBER, H.A. Classical Mythology. Sterling Publishing Co, 2016.
Sears, Kathleen. Mythology 101: From Gods and Goddesses to Monsters and Mortals, Your Guide to Ancient Mythology. Adams Media, 2014.
Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site/
Show email: [email protected]
This show is produced by me, Adrienne. Artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters
Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)
Note: Image on episode was used with ChatGPT - marble statue of Zeus in classical form with an eagle and lightning bolt (I will only be doing this for non-historical figures. All person that existed in history will have their associated artwork used - thank you!)
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Today's episode features the third wife of Emperor Claudius, Valeria Messalina, commonly referred to Messalina.
Sources:
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1158&context=constructing
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=10:chapter=83&highlight=messalina
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/JuvenalSatires6.php
Farquhar, Michael, A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors, 2001.
Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site/
Show email: [email protected]
This show is produced by me, Adrienne. Artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters
Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)
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Hi all! This episode features both Tiberius and Caligula and their salacious sexcapades and how one may have influenced the other!
Sources used:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Caligula*.html
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/caligula-facts-life-biography-horse-consul-incitatus-little-boots-how-die/#
Farquhar, Michael, A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors, 2001.
Show information:
This show is produced by me, Adrienne. Artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters
Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)
Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site/
Show email: [email protected]
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Today's episode looks into the chaotic life and relationships of Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
Sources:
https://arthive.com/publications/4336~the_life_and_death_of_cleopatra_in_15_paintings#google_vignette
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html
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This episode explores the fast paced life of Servilia of Rome. She was the most favored mistress of Julius Caesar, mother to Brutus, and mother in law to Gaius Cassius Longinus.
Sources:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servilia_(mother_of_Brutus)
Flower, Harriet (2021-01-22). "Servilia". Oxford Classical Dictionary.
Tempest, Kathryn (2017). Brutus: The Noble Conspirator. London: Yale University Press.
Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)
Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site/
Show email: [email protected]
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Welcome to this week's episode - which features Hephaestion, the favorite of Alexander the Great.
Sources used:
Plutarch, Parallel Lives - https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/10.html
Arrian of Nicomedia, Anabasis of Alexander
Cantarella, Eva
Cartledge, Paul - Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (Macmillan, 2004)
Artwork: Sisygambis, Mother of Darius III, Francesco de Mura (18th Century)
Email Contact: [email protected]
Website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site
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Today's episode focuses on Phryne of Ancient Greece (from Thespian, Boeotia) and one of the most prominent courtesans/hetaira of Ancient Greece during the 4th Century BCE.
Sources:
Natalie Haynes, "The It Girl of Ancient Greece"
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20171108-the-it-girl-of-ancient-greece
Plutarch, Parallel Lives, https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0248%3Asection%3D15
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phryne
This show is written, recorded, and produced by me, Adrienne.
Podcast show artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters. Episode artwork - Bathsheba at her Bath by Rembrandt (1654)
Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)
Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site/
Podcast contact: [email protected]
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This episode focuses on Aspasia of Miletus. She was the lover and mistress of the Ancient Athenian soldier and politician, Pericles.
Sources:
Plutarch, Lives - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/674/674-h/674-h.htm#2H_4_0012
Henry, Madeline, Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition (1995)
The Periclean Citizenship Law of 451/0 B.C. - June 2007 - https://www.ancienthistory.org.uk/downloads/ma/demes-and-democracy-essay.pdf
Self-Portrait as Aspasia" by Marie Gineviève Bouliar (1794)
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Episode on Bathsheba, lover/mistress of David, then his wife.
Is she to be considered a mistress? Listen and you shall find out!
Sources used: Bereshit (Book of Nevi'm - Prophets):
https://www.chabad.org/
New International Version (NIV)
https://www.biblegateway.com/
This show is produced by me, Adrienne. Podcast show artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters. Episode artwork - Bathsheba at her Bath by Rembrandt (1654)
Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)
Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site/
Podcast contact: [email protected]
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First episode! This episode discusses Hagar from the Old Testament's Book of Genesis (Chapters 16 and 21) - as to whether or not she's really a mistress.
Sources used: Bereshit (Book of Genesis):
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8216https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8211/jewish/Chapter-16.htm
New International Version (NIV)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+16&version=NIV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+21&version=NIV
This show is produced by me, Adrienne. Artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters
Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)
Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site/
