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Who would think time travel could mix with crime and Jane Austen... none other than this episodes guest Amelia Blackwell.

She and Lauren get into the ridiculousness of weaving these three ideas together. Why Austen is still important today and how hard it actually is to find a guy in finance who's 6' 5" with blue eyes. There's obligatory spoilers into the plot and Lauren brings back shag, marry, kill for some of Austens best or worst F Boys

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This episode Lauren delves into all things dragon with L R Lam. Building of magic systems, gender fluidity and making dragons sexy.

This episode rather than a spoiler section the episode splits to delve into book one and book two

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Lauren welcomes back Emily for the second part of deep diving into Mythica and this episode Lauren cherry picks women from The Odyssey. 

They talk about the importance of new translations. More on what the Linear B tablets can tell us and go into Lauren's favourite topic weaving. They agree on coming back as a sexually charged magic female goddess as being life goals and why certain women should be reconsidered with historical facts.

And thank god Lauren didn't make Emily do a shot every time she bad mouths Telemachus

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This episode is the first of a two-parter with Emily Hauser. Today we look into some of the women in the Illiad and dive into chapters in Emily's new book Mythica

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Way back last year Lauren caught wind that an author was finally doing a retelling about Ipheginia. Fastforward to now.... Lauren gets into sources, character choices and things that seem totally implausible with Jenny around this pivotal moment that leads up to the Trojan War. The Death and Life of Ipheginia also turns her story from a fullstop into a semi-colon.... what if her story didn't end at Aulis?
They also touch on Jennys short story about Aerope and learn where the curse of the House of Atreus came from.

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Todays book is written for all the people who need Dionysus in their life. Lauren gets full on bacchic frenzy with Natasha Pulley as they explore The Hymn to Dionysus. Natasha hops into the Greek Myth space for the first time to share a sort of retelling of The Bacchae. She shares her views on why the legacy of Dionysus is so widespread and why people are loving him now. We dive into plot points and of course get full on spoilery in the spoiler section.

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Happy Fantasy Friday. What happens if you take inspiration from a historical prince with an evil to good arc and flip it on it's head? Enter The Prince Without Sorrow. Lauren was so thilled to talk to Maithree about her debut novel which could be Lauren's book of the year. They delve in deep to the infusion of Buddist philosophy into the Mayakari (witches)... talk family infighting and Maithree shows much restraint in not giving book 2 and 3 spoilers.

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This conversation is what happens when 1000 years of mythology is condensed down into just over an hour. Kim Curran introduces Lauren to the Morrigan as she brings Irish Mythology mainstream. They get distracted talking about Saint Patrick getting rid of the snakes from Ireland as well as discussing translations, feminism and various big events in the Morrigans life

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Lauren NEEDED to talk to Grace Curtis again as she does a genre shift from Sci-Fi to full on fantasy.

Find out which historical periods influenced the novel and what Grace and Lauren both find sexy about the Roman Empire. Listen to them not get too political as they break down power and nostalgia in Idolfire and in our own reality and find out Lauren's favourite character as they deep dive into the plot with obligatory spoilers

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We all know the Greeks and Romans... but how many other Ancient Cultures and Civilisations are you unaware even existed?

This episode Lauren is joined by Raven Todd DaSilva aka @digitwithraven to scrape the surface of a few of the ones in her amazing book "The Other Ancient Civilisations - Decoding Archaeology's less celebrated cultures".

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