It’s Halloween and another in the #NightofTheLivyDead miniseries. I hope you enjoyed the episode, here are some notes and bits I mentioned. The episode. Just in case you wanted to listen again (or have stumbled on it here). Hermes and the drinking spirits. I mentioned this is the episode towards the end. The lekythos (type …
As you might know for some time I have been carving a pumpkin each year at Halloween inspired by a Greek design or Roman mosaic. To start with here’s a video on the one I did last year. Previous designs. As you saw in the video, this was last year’s design. A mosaic from Fishbourne …
With Halloween approaching you may well notice a few references to werewolves within the context of ancient Greece. But what are they referring to? Allow me to give a brief overview, I’ve also included a recent minisode I did on exactly this and included some general resources on it all at the bottom. Lykaon. The …
Long time listeners to the Ancient History Hound podcast may recall that each year I do a Halloween episode. Finding scary content from antiquity isn’t initially difficult, though once you’ve got past a couple of spooky stories and the whole werewolves in Arcadia bit then it does become a bit more challenging. I thought I’d …
The #NightofTheLivyDead podcast series. Halloween and horror in antiquity. Read More »
For the last 9 years (with one exception due to Covid) I have visited a school in Brighton to help with their topic on the Romans. The Year 3s (8 year olds) are the group I work with and initially it’s an overview of what a Roman soldier would wear and hold with an hour …
Dr Ionescu. You can find Dr Ionescu’s podcast ‘The Goddess Project‘ on Spotify, Youtube and most platforms (or just use the link). Insta here – artemisexpert Twitter – also @artemisexpert Her book is ‘She Who Hunts’ – go find it and get reading! Here’s the episode: Statue of Artemis at Ephesus. I’m all about the …
The below image is a bit of a curious one. Halloween fancy dress or lycanthrope in casual attire? The answer is less fun but much more revealing, it’s a priest of official wearing a mask of Anubis. This jackal-headed deity belonged to the Egyptian pantheon, but this fresco was found far from the shores of …
As I’ve created a few podcasts and an article on Pompeii I thought I’d put these on one page along with the sources I have used. Podcasts. The original podcast I did focuses on the history of Pompeii, how it developed and what it was when disaster struck. Pompeii wasn’t a city Rome founded or …
Hi and thanks for listening, if you haven’t well, here’s a way to do so below: I’ve got his work cited in the reading list below but Phil De Souza’s ‘Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World’ made this episode possible. If you’ve the faintest interest in piracy in antiquity you’ll need it! Don’t forget to check …
On my recent trip to the British Museum I saw a great many objects and these were certainly novel. They are baby feeders which date to 300-320 BCE from Sicily. Perhaps not something unusual until you consider the design. Rats. In fairness there wasn’t much of a difference made between mice and rats at this …
Rat style baby feeders from Ancient Sicily. Niche! Read More »
