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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Episodes
27 episodes
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...
Enyo the Aromantic
This week we are discussing Enyo, the embodiment of Warfare, as a manifestation of aromantic identity from the Greek Pantheon. Across numerous conflicts, Enyo never actually is shown to have any particular loyalty to any faction. Du...
Hestia the Asexual
Hestia is the Goddess of the Hearth. She was the first born child of Kronos and Rheia, and the first to be eaten by the Crooked Kronos. Once Zeus claimed the celestial throne for himself, she and the other Kronian Gods were regurgit...
Review of Nolan's Odyssey
This is a special episode reviewing the new movie version of the Odyssey, produced by Christopher Nolan, published by Universal Pictures.
Dionysos the Demisexual
This week we are exploring Dionysos as a manifestation of demisexuality. While scholars have long discussed an asexuality represented in Dionysos, we can be a bit more specific when we detach from asexuality as an academic construct...
International Non-Binary People's Day
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!Today we have a very special episode interpreting Artemis as a demi-woman non-binary person. Artemis is the wild deity associated with forests, mountains, and other wild spaces. Yet...
Zeus the Pansexual
This week we are focusing on the abstraction known as Zeus whose sexual desires could best be described as pansexual. Zeus is the King of the Universe, and with that power comes a great amount of sexual experimentation with body and form.
Athena the Nonbinary Part 2
This week we are going to continue our discussion of Athena as a nonbinary manifestation. Whether pursuing masculine-coded activities like conflict and competition or feminine-coded activities like weaving and homemaking, Athena strove for exce...
Athena the Nonbinary
This week we are going to interpret Athena as a nonbinary manifestation. Whether pursuing masculine-coded activities like conflict and competition or feminine-coded activities like weaving and homemaking, Athena strove for excellence. ...
Kybele the Intersex
This week's episode covers the story of the Agdistis. They were created through an immaculate conception with an intersex condition resulting in the manifestation of male and female sexual characteristics. The other Gods were so terrified by Ag...
Dionysos the Queer
This week we are discussing Dionysos as a manifestation of all things Queer. They are constantly shown moving between gendered expressions, never really settling on any one for long. This creates a being able to manifest the raw cre...
Attis the Trans-Woman Part 3
Today's episode concludes our deep-dive into Attis, the Phrygian fertility deity assigned male at birth who underwent gender transition. After the emotional turmoil subsides, Attis settles into the house of Rheia. Though Attis had a few stumbli...
Lesbian Day of Visibility Special
Happy Lesbian Day of Visibility!Today we have a very special episode covering stories of Lesbian desire. There is a spell found in the Greek Magical Papyri which was intended to bind Serapias to Herais, two women whose desire to be...
Attis the Trans-Woman Part 2
This week we are continuing our deep-dive into Attis, a figure assigned male at birth who travelled to Asia and underwent a gender transition. Following the surgery itself, Attis experiences first the manic highs of gender euphoria before falli...
Attis the Trans-Woman Part 1
This week we are looking at Attis, a figure assigned male at birth who travelled to Phrygia and underwent a gender transition. The experience of Attis mirrors closely the experience of modern trans-women as we start with a figure who was never ...
Apollo the Bisexual
This week we are talking about the God of the Arts Apollo.Apollo was a deity whose amorous escapades are split between men and women. Some of the most widely known stories of love between Gods and Mortals involve Apollo in so...
Transgender Day of Visibility Special
Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!Today we have a very special episode covering the stories of Dionysos and Caeneus, two narratives from the ancient world where transgender characters transcend visibility and are able to ...
Ganymedes the Gay
Today's episode covers the story of Ganymedes, a young man so beautiful that the cosmic king Zeus snatches him away to be his immortal boyfriend. Though the story is among the oldest pieces of Greek Mythology which comes down to us,...
Artemis the Lesbian
This week we are talking about the Goddess of the hunt Artemis (Diana). Her world is a world of women, and none of them are terribly heteronormative.From her birth, Artemis desired to live a life surrounded by women, shunning...
In the Beginning
This episode covers the creation of humankind. After Prometheus created men and women, Dionysus showed up to make sure humans could never be a simple heteronormative binary. We dissect the resulting creation of Tribadas and mo...