Posts tagged Dionysus
Ep 100 - Bacchus to the Future

It’s our 100th episode! Join us one last time in 2021 for our centennial celebration of bawdy Bacchanalia as we take a closer look at Bacchus, the Roman equivalent of my OC don’t steal for Dionysus. It’s our big Roman party, there’ll be drinking, singing, myths, and us absolutely dragging Livy for being the ultimate party pooper.

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Ep 99 - Dionysus, God of Wine and Big Dick Energy

It’s our 99th episode! A special deep dive look at our patron god, Dionysus. Dionysus and his cohort of Satyrs and MAE NADS are getting into shenanigans involving a teetotaler king, King Goldfinger, and the best bard this side of a Dionysia Festival. It’s no Dionysian Mysteries as to why this god may be the last to join the pantheon but is number 1 in our hearts.

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Ep 70 - Alchemy, Immortality and Celtic Myths with Barbara Barnett, Author of Alchemy of Glass

Join us for a conversation with gaslamp fantasy author, Barbara Barnett, as we talk mythological inspirations in her recent novel, Alchemy of Glass, her latest follow up to The Apothecary’s Curse. Barbara shares the Greek and Celtic myths that inspired her work, like the Tuatha Dé Danann. We get to hear firsthand how she blends elements of magic, science, history, and myth together to tell wonderfully compelling stories. Also featuring great anecdotes from Barbara’s days going to Comic-Con press parties and more!

Both Alchemy of Glass and The Apothecary’s Curse are available anywhere books are sold! Go check them out!

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Ep 47 - Myth Love: Orpheus and Eurydice

To Hell and Back Again, a Bards tale by Orpheus of Thrace. Orpheus would do anything for love, and he would do that. Go to hell with Orpheus in pursuit of his lost love, Eurydice. He’ll prove that true love and love songs conquer almost all, even death as he plays his lyre and sways the crowds including Pluto, Proserpina, Charon and Cerberus. And if that don’t touch your heart, then you might be a murder-lusting Maenad Bacchus groupie.

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Ep 2 - All My Zeus's Children

Put on your earbuds, we gonna talk our way through the many god and goddess children of that no-good, philandering scoundrel king of Mt. Olympus, Zeus. Thanks to the infidelity that rascal Zeus, we have Hermes, Athena, Artemis, Ares, Apollo, Dionysus, Hephaestus, and Persephone. Somebody better tell Hera, she's got some revenging to do.

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