Hi all! This episode is part II of Apollo's love life - but with the mortals! It gets messy with the women, and lovelorn with his men.

Sources:

Day, Malcolm. Barron’s 100 Characters from Classical Mythology : Discover the Fascinating Stories of the Greek and Roman Deities. Hauppauge, Ny, Barron’s Educational Series, Inc, 2007, p. 53.

Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. Vol. 1, Penguin Books, 1960.

GUERBER, H.A. Classical Mythology. Sterling Publishing Co, 2016.

Sears, Kathleen. Mythology 101: From Gods and Goddesses to Monsters and Mortals, Your Guide to Ancient Mythology. Adams Media, 2014.

Waterfield, Robin, and Kathryn Waterfield. The Greek Myths: Stories of the Greek Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold. Metro Books, 2011.

https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/cassandra.html

https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/ajax-the-lesser.html

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Helenus-Greek-mythology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecuba

https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/the-curse-of-cassandra?has_completed_unsubscribed_unlock=true

https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Clytemnestra/clytemnestra.html

https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Agamemnon/agamemnon.html

https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Iphigenia/iphigenia.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelops_(son_of_Agamemnon)

https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/wretched-cassandra/

Show art: Girl Eating Oysters, Jan Steen

Episode art: Apollo stepping on the python with Cassandra at his feet with the walls of Troy behind them - ChapGPT

Show music: Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522, performed by the Advent Orchestra via musopen.org.

Hi all!

Welcome, or welcome back to Sex, Scandals, & Shenanigans Podcast! This episode discusses the immortal love life of the "shine bright like the sun" god, Apollo! This is part 1 of his story - the immortal lovers. Part 2 will be forthcoming with his mortal lovers.

Sources:

Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. Vol. 1, Penguin Books, 1960.

GUERBER, H.A. Classical Mythology. Sterling Publishing Co, 2016.

Sears, Kathleen. Mythology 101: From Gods and Goddesses to Monsters and Mortals, Your Guide to Ancient Mythology. Adams Media, 2014.

Waterfield, Robin, and Kathryn Waterfield. The Greek Myths: Stories of the Greek Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold. Metro Books, 2011.

https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/ApollonLoves.html

https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/ApollonFamily.html

https://chs.harvard.edu/primary-source/hesiod-theogony-sb/

https://www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/Apollo/apollo.html

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Apollo-Greek-mythology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo

https://paleothea.com/gods-and-goddesses/apollo-hermes-mythic-friendship/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne_(Bernini)

Sources

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/extk8o/what_is_the_evidence_that_king_henry_the_second/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alys_of_France,_Countess_of_Vexin

https://www.creativehistorian.co.uk/blog/read_190791/almost-queens-alys-of-france.html

https://thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2016/10/03/alys-of-france-countess-of-ponthieu/

https://youtu.be/lrdueN7gTcg?si=nWjH_aPGR6mO0ef7

https://youtu.be/qvrNwGVCl2I?si=T5YRKFXsfRuAcj5H

https://searcycounty.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/alys-of-france-countess-of-vexin/#:~:text=Henry%20II%20arranged%20for%20the,heirs%20to%20inherit%20his%20lands.

Image link: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235637

Hickey, Julia A. Medieval Royal Mistresses: Mischievous Women Who Slept with Kings and Princes. PEN & SWORD HISTORY, 2022.

Chapter 11: “Rosamund Clifford, Ida de Tosny, Alys of France, Nesta and BelleBelle." Page 156-157.

The show is written, produced, and edited by me, Adrienne.

Show artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters

Episode artwork: medieval art of potentially Ida De Tosny

Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site

Show email: [email protected]

Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)

Hello all! Welcome back to S,S,&S! Today's episode will be focusing on Henry II of England's mistress, Ida De Tosny.

Sources below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_de_Tosny

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ela_of_Salisbury,_3rd_Countess_of_Salisbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Bigod,_3rd_Earl_of_Norfolk

https://thehistoryjar.com/tag/ida-de-tosny/

https://plantagenesta.livejournal.com/59788.html?es=1

https://plantagenesta.livejournal.com/33489.html

https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/william-longespee-3rd-earl-of-salisbury-illegitimate-son-of-king-henry-ii-of-england/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_de_Tosny#CITEREFMorris2005

https://www.medievalists.net/?s=ida+de+tosny&submit=Search

Wharton, Kimberly, https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1378&context=master201019

https://www.geni.com/people/Ida-de-Toëny-Countess-of-Norfolk/6000000006428477266

The show is written, produced, and edited by me, Adrienne.

Show artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters

Episode artwork: medieval art of potentially Ida De Tosny

Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site

Show email: [email protected]

Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)

Hello all! Today's episode features the first of many of Henry II's mistresses: Rosamund de Clifford (1140s-1176). According to some, she was the love of Henry's life, not his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosamund_Clifford
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Plantagenet,_Count_of_Anjou
• https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/King-Henry-II-of-England/
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/henry_ii_king.shtml
• https://www.royal.uk/henry-ii
• https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=harding&book=england&story=henry2
• https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/rosamund-de-clifford-mistress-of-henry-ii-king-of-england/
• https://royalcentral.co.uk/features/mysterious-death-rosamund-212380/
• https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/women-in-history/eleanor-aquitaine/
• https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/women-in-history/eleanor-aquitaine/

The show is written, produced, and edited by me, Adrienne.

Show artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters

Episode artwork: Fair Rosamund, John William Waterhouse, 1916-17.

Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site

Show email: [email protected]

Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)

Hi all! This episode I talk about the love story between Abelard and Heloise. They're lovers who philosophized on religion, love, sex, and also go into to some studious and sexy shenanigans!

Sources:

https://slantbooks.org/close-reading/essays/heloise-and-abelard/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heloise#:~:text=the%20passage%20troubling.-,Burial,Lachaise%2C%20Heloise%27s%20remains%20are%20elsewhere.

https://www.thoughtco.com/abelard-and-heloise-735128

https://notjustwivesandmothers.wordpress.com/2021/01/16/misteaching-church-history-the-case-of-heloise-and-abelard/

https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1126&context=graduatetheses

https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/heloise-and-abelards-tumultuous-affair

https://philosophersmag.com/heloise/

https://epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/letter/178.html

https://epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/letter/902.html

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astralabe

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/death-medieval-lover

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Love_Letters_of_Abelard_and_Heloise/Letter_3

https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/introphil/chapter/excerpts-from-the-letters-of-abelard-and-heloise/

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35977/35977-h/35977-h.htm#a_CHII

The show is written, produced, and edited by me, Adrienne.

Show artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters

Episode artwork: Henry I of England, National Gallery, London; unknown artist, 16th Century

Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site

Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)

Hi all! Back with another episode! This time, we discuss the Conqueror's youngest son, Henry I of England and his sexploits!

There's plenty of political intrigue, lots of sex, and children who are revered and another who tries to commit patricide!

Sources;

https://aroyalheraldry.weebly.com/blog/illegitimate-royal-offspring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_the_purple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_England

https://elizabethchadwick.com/adeliza-of-louvain-lady-of-the-english-the-forgotten-queen/

https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/death-and-anarchy-white-ship-disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Matilda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCo0S_ceTnU&t=293s

https://www.historyhit.com/1120-white-ship-sinks-english-channel/#:~:text=Having%20set%20sail%20for%20England,known%20as%20“the%20anarchy.”

Sound clips:

"He Started it!" - Mulan (1998), Disney.

Pronunciation of Porphyrogeniture

The show is written, produced, and edited by me, Adrienne.

Show artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters

Episode artwork: Henry I of England, National Gallery, London; unknown artist, 16th Century

Show website: https://rss.com/podcasts/sexscandalshenanigans/

Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)

Hello everyone! This episode discusses the relationship between William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and his mistress, Dangereuse. They are each a grandparent of the one and only, Aliénore of Aquitaine (she's her maternal grandmother, and William is her paternal grandfather). Please join me in discussing how they shaped the future of Europe - particularly England and France.

Sources:

https://www.geni.com/people/Guillaume-IX-le-Troubadour-duc-d-Aquitaine/6000000000656950354

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IX,_Duke_of_Aquitaine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangereuse_of_L%27Île-Bouchard

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LTC9-G9Y/dangereuse-de-l'isle-bouchard-1079-1151

https://www.geni.com/people/Amauberge-Dangereuse-de-L-Île-Bouchard/6000000006906614042

https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/the-royal-mistresses-series/dangereuse-de-lisle-bouchard-mistress-to-william-ix-duke-of-aquitaine/

https://www.midi-france.info/190202_aquitaine.htm

Sound clips:

"Tis a woman!" - Mulan (1998), Disney.

"Whateva! I do what I want!" - Eric Cartman, South Park, Season 6, Episode 3, 'Freak Strike." Viacom.

The show is written, produced, and edited by me, Adrienne.

Show artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters

Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)

Hi all! New episode on Bertrade de Montfort, Countess of Anjou, then off to the royal bedchamber in Île de France. Wife of Fulk IV and mistress to wife of Philip I of France.

Enjoy!

Bertrade de Montfort sources:

https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/bertrade-de-montfort/bertrade-de-montfort-whom-no-good-man-ever-praised-save-for-her-beauty/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_I_of_France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Montfort

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_of_Holland

https://anancestoradayblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/bertrade-de-montfort-queen-consort-of-the-franks/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrade_of_Montfort

https://www.melocki.org.uk/ordericus/Book9.html

https://olivialongueville.com/2020/07/29/king-philippe-i-of-the-franks-known-as-the-amorous/

Photo credit: https://olivialongueville.com/2020/07/29/king-philippe-i-of-the-franks-known-as-the-amorous/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/battle-royale-french-monarchs/id1574059048

This show is produced and edited by me, Adrienne.

Show artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters

Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)

Show email: [email protected]

Show website: Show website: https://sexscandalsandshenanigans.my.canva.site/

Hello all! This episode will discuss Edith Swanneck/Edith the Fair, the love of Harold Godwin's life.

Sources:

Morris, Marc, The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400-1066. 2021

https://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/saxon_36.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_of_Huntingdon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fulford

https://historytheinterestingbits.com/2023/10/14/matilda-and-edith-women-of-different-fates/

https://www.geni.com/people/Edith-the-Fair/6000000001391856400

This show is produced and edited by me, Adrienne.

Episode artwork is Edith Recovering Harold's Body after the Battle of Hastings - Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (1827).

Show artwork is Jan Steen's A Girl Eating Oysters

Music provided by: Advent Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in A Minor, RV 522 (provided by musopen.org)