Women Who Went Before
Rebekah Haigh & Emily Chesley
Women Who Went Before is on a gynocentric quest into the ancient world. Join hosts Rebekah Haigh and Emily Chesley as they interview the world’s top scholars and unearth the lives of women from the past. It’s a history podcast and detective journey in one, sifting through texts and tropes to find the women who lived beneath.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Women Who Went Before podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The three musketeers
Alexandre Dumas père
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The origin of Satan
Elaine Pagels
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Gender and Immortality
Dr. Deborah Lyons
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Reproduction, Antiquity to the Present Day
Rebecca Flemming
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Beyond Belief
Elaine Pagels
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Olympias of Thebes' Works
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Olympias of Thebes
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Baby-Sitters Club
Ann M. Martin
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mishnah
The First Written Collection of Jewish Oral Traditions
Judah ha-Nasi
Various Tannaim
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Medicine and Markets in the Greco-Roman World and Beyond
Rebecca Flemming
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Book of Jubilees
Fr. Stephen DeYoung
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Plato's Works
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Plato
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome
Thomas A. J. McGinn
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Female sexual slavery
Kathleen Barry
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Scenting Salvation, Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Saranis' gynecology
Saranis
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult
Dr. Deborah Lyons
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Penelope's Renown
Marilyn Katz
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Cleopatras, The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Prison Diary of Perpetua
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Perpetua
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The virgin and the bride
Kate Cooper
