CW: kidnapping, rape, Stockholm syndrome. If that didn’t scare you off, join Sam and Sara for the legend of the Sabine women. Discussion includes: white people dancing, mystery pregnancies, the powerful effect of baby animals on your hosts, and a proposed alternate ending.

• Hephzibah: Wikipedia - Did you already know who Hephzibah was? You're way ahead of us!
• The Sobbin' Women, by Stephen Vincent Benét - Free text of the short story on which Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is based.
• A racist history shows why Oregon is still so white - Oregon Public Radio story on the black exclusion laws during the colonization and settlement of Oregon.
• Plutarch: Life of Romulus - The story of the Sabines begins in section 14.
• Livy: Ab urbe condita - The rape of the Sabine women is told in 1.9-13.