39. The Amazons: Stoner Horse Girl Warriors of Antiquity
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode brings you not one, but two, wonderful guest hosts – Meghan Rose and S.C. Lucier, (known collectively as Lucier&Rose), the creators of Xena: Warrior Musical - The Lost Scroll, joining Leigh to talk about everyone's favorite badass warrior women of antiquity, Amazons! In this first part of a two-part episode examining warrior women throughout history, we'll dive full-tilt into the myths, legends, and misconceptions about the all-female militant society that struck fear into the hearts of ancient Greek men – powerful women, GASP! Where did these stories come from? How queer were they? And were they real, or just figments of mythology? Listen to this episode to hear us answer all these questions and talk even more, including jokes about penis bones, drinking horse-milk booze, and smoking pot with Herotodus.
Plus, Meg and Luce debut the very first song from their forthcoming musical, titled Atalanta: The Long Shot!
You can learn more about Meg and Luce, Xena: Warrior Musical, and more of their forthcoming projects at www.xenawarriormusical.com, @XenatheMusical on Twitter, and @XenaWarriorMusical on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube!
This episode was edited by Ellie Brigida of Lez Hang Out podcast and The Flame: A Podcast Musical.
Outline
0:00 – Introduction
10:37 – Socio-Historical Context
13:33 – The Amazons of Myth and Legend
31:10 – A tour through some Amazon queens
38:27-39:05 – Content warning: rape mention
40:34 – Atalanta, The Greek "Amazon"
59:55 – Real-Life Amazons: Warrior Women of Scythia
1:09:28 – Why do we think they're gay?
1:26:16 – Pop-Culture Tie-In
1:37:37 – How Gay were They?
1:46:09 – Closing and Where to Find us Online
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, Lee here in this intro, just wanting to wish you a happy new year and to just give you all a little bit of context about this episode. |
| 0:12.6 | This episode was originally recorded in the very beginning of November and meant to come out in the middle of November. |
| 0:19.8 | But I found out that same weekend that |
| 0:22.6 | we were recording that I needed to move. So I have spent the last month and a half going through |
| 0:28.7 | a big move to a new apartment. So I apologize for the lateness of this episode. And that's also |
| 0:34.9 | while you'll hear us in the beginning talking about day-length |
| 0:38.1 | savings time and a lot of things that no longer super are relevant to the time that this episode |
| 0:45.4 | is coming out. |
| 0:46.6 | A few things to look forward to in the new year. |
| 0:49.6 | We are finally going forward with our revamp of the Patreon. So keep an eye out for that. We will be |
| 0:56.2 | having a whole bunch of really wonderful new perks and new tiers. We're going to have a |
| 1:01.0 | Discord server that folks can join and talk about fun stuff all the time. So please keep an eye |
| 1:07.1 | out for that. If you haven't already become a Patreon supporter, I really encourage you to do so. |
| 1:13.3 | One of the things that I put out online before this episode came out was that I moved into, |
| 1:20.7 | or I was trying to move into a new apartment that is much more expensive, unfortunately, than where I was living before. |
| 1:28.3 | And so I am really grateful to every single person who is contributing, |
| 1:33.3 | whether by individual donations or by Patreon or by buying things in the store, |
| 1:39.3 | you really are making it just a little bit more possible for me to treat this show and essentially |
| 1:46.7 | second job as a source of some extra income. And I have never in the past paid myself for |
| 1:56.0 | this show. So I'm going to start actually doing that. All of the money previously had been just |
| 2:00.7 | saved towards things like going to start actually doing that. All of the money previously had been just saved towards things like going to conventions |
| 2:03.7 | and doing speaking engagements. |
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