Hi all! Welcome or welcome back to the show! In this episode, I discuss Homer's The Iliad. Yes, I talk about Paris, Odysseus, Helen, and the rest of them. It was fun discussing such an important epic poem.

Sources are below along with the snippets of pop culture references! Enjoy!

Sources:

https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerIliad1.html

https://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html

Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, 2004

The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan, 2025

Audio snippets:

• Sleeping Beauty, Disney, 1959
• The Last Kingdom

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

Show art: Girl Eating Oysters, Jan Steen

Episode art: Helen looking Upon Paris and Menelaus Fighting - Gemini AI (2026)

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

Hello all! The concluding episode on Alienor of Aquitaine! This does not mean, however, that her story ends - we're still in the thick of it with a movie review and her two sons, Richard and John. That said, thank you again for listening! Sources and podcast info are below.

Sources:

Weir, Allison, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life. 2001, Ballantine Books

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eleanor-of-Aquitaine

https://elizabethchadwick.com/blog/eleanor-of-aquitaines-scandalous-ancestors-or-blood-will-out/

https://elizabethchadwick.com/blog/eleanor-of-aquitaine-raymond-of-poitiers-and-the-incident-at-antioch/

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

https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/eleanor-aquitaine-myths-about-medieval-queen-facts-who-mother/

https://daily.jstor.org/eleanor-of-aquitaines-court-of-love/

https://www.fontevraud.fr/en/eleanor-of-aquitaine-fontevraud/

Audio excerpts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/betwixt-the-sheets-the-history-of-sex-scandal-society/id1612090432?i=1000753637917

Mulan (1998 - animated), "One Family Reunion Coming Up!" Disney.

Record scratch

Show art: Girl Eating Oysters, Jan Steen

Episode art: Eleanor of Aquitaine Effigy @ Fontevraud Abbey

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

Hello all! Welcome/welcome back to Sex, Scandals, and Shenanigans Podcast! Sorry about the long delay (life got ahead of me!) This is part deus (two) of Alíenore's life - after getting married, popping out royal brats, and fighting her husband for her autonomy. Enjoy! Sources are down below.

Sources:

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/King-Henry-II-of-England/

https://epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/woman/24.html

https://guides.loc.gov/feminism-french-women-history/famous/eleanor-aquitaine

https://www.electrummagazine.com/2018/07/eleanor-of-aquitaine-a-woman-beyond-her-time/

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Thomas-Becket/

https://www.fontevraud.fr/en/eleanor-of-aquitaine-fontevraud/

https://longreads.com/2018/04/04/queens-of-infamy-eleanor-of-aquitaine/

WEIR, ALISON, QUEENS OF THE CRUSADES: ENGLAND'S MEDIEVAL QUEENS (BOOK 2). 2021

https://www.thecollector.com/eleanor-of-aquitaine-most-powerful-woman-middle-ages/

https://elizabethchadwick.com/blog/finding-petronella/

https://historylearning.com/medieval-england/the-crusades/second-crusade/

https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/resource/transcript-for-eleanor-4/

https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/resource/transcript-for-eleanor-12/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-1-1-queen-on-the-run/id1641568639?i=1000584587895

https://olivialongueville.com/2020/07/25/eleanor-of-aquitaine-and-louis-vii-of-france-an-ill-fated-royal-match/

Show art: Girl Eating Oysters, Jan Steen

Episode art: Medieval drawing of Eleanor of Aquitaine

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