Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity Podcast
Your home for all things LGBT in Ancient Greece and Rome.
Historical Figures, Mythical Representations, Poetry, Legal Cases, Mysticism, Heroic Exploits, and all Queer things from Antiquity!
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Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity Podcast
Latest Episodes
Why do we use Our Words to Study Antiquity?
This episode explores the significance of using our own words to describe sexuality and gender in the past. First we are able to describe a much wider range of gender and sexuality when we use our own words to describe them!
What is Sapphic Love?
Today is International Lesbian Day!We are going to try to answer a seemingly simple question: What is Sapphic Love?The question is surprisingly difficult to answer. Sappho's love for other women is the stuff of legend, but it is n...
LGBT History Month Introduction
October is LGBT History Month, and this is an LGBT History Podcast!Join us all month long for specials covering Queer events and people from Antiquity. Our tentative schedule:October 1 - IntroductionOctober 8 - ...
Phanes the Agender
Phanes was the first born of all the Gods. This was a chaotic period, where nothing had been established or delineated from anything else. Chimeric creatures represented multiple bodies and forms in the same body. This is true of Phanes. Phanes...
Iakkhos and Mise the Genderfluid
This week we are discussing Iakkhos and Mise, the mysterious chorus leader in the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries. Iakkhos and Mise are an extremely intimate deity. They literally lead processions such as the one from Athens to Ele...
