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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
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastThe Third Gender in Antiquity
Today's episode discusses the concept of a Third Gender in Antiquity. First we introduce the concept of a Third Gender. Despite the name, Third Gender models…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastTransgender Parents Day Special
Today is Transgender Parent's Day, a chance to reflect on Transgender and Nonbinary folx who raise children. We celebrate Trans parents’ strength, resilience…
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Halloween Special: The Oschophoria
The Oschophoria is an Athenian festival celebrating Dionysos' arrival. The celebration includes citizens dressing up in costumes and eating sweet treats. The…
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International Pronouns Day Special
On this International Pronouns Day Special, we are exploring some of the terms Romans used to describe their own loves. Many of these terms originated to…
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Spirit Day Special: Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus
In 186BC, Queer people in Rome and Italy faced discrimination and violence from the Senate in the form of the Senate's Great Decree on Bacchanals. The decree…
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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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastWhat 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…
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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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastPhanes 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastIakkhos 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastEnyo 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastHestia 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…
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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.
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastDionysos 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastInternational 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastZeus 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastAthena 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastAthena the Nonbinary
This week we are going to interpret Athena as a nonbinary manifestation. Whether pursuing masculine-coded activities like conflict and competition or…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastKybele 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastDionysos 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastAttis 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastLesbian 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastAttis 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastAttis 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastApollo 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastTransgender 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastGanymedes 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…
Lambda: the LGBT in Antiquity PodcastArtemis 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…
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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…
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Unstable Categories
Episode focuses on stability in the way we construct the ancient world. We seek a continuity when what we are discussing has undergone seismic changes across…
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What are we Talking About?
This episode explores what the lives of the poet Sappho and Roman Emperor Hadrian show about the way Classicists and historians construct and deconstruct…
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Et in Arcadia Ego
Episode one explores the diverse ways we can study the LGBT+ experience in antiquity.
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Lambda Trailer
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