Episode Twelve: A Thousand Ships

Classically Trained

In this episode we discuss Natalie Haynes's 2019 novel A Thousand Ships. Digressions include identity theft, ancient clothing, and ecofascism. We also spend a while simping for basically every ancient woman mentioned.

Content warnings:

• Profanity
• Discussion of violence and death
• Discussion of rape and sexual assault
• Mentions of slavery
• Mentions of sex and sexuality

Notes: The French story about a man replacing his dead comrade that Julia referenced was the story of Martin Guerre, which was indeed historical.

And a small correction: the word for Penelope and Odysseus's likemindedness is "homophrosyne" not "symphrosyne".

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