It's the ancients on History Hit and Tristan Hughes your host.

And in today's podcast, well it's where we'll have time, it's Strix Witch Time.

Strix Witch being a specific type of witch, very much created by the Romans, very much

a Roman phenomenon.

And in this podcast we're going to be talking you through a series of stories from antiquity

which mention either one or both of these creatures from ancient history.

And joining me to talk through these stories going from Cersei and Greek myths all the way

down to Imperial Roman Patronius' satiricon, I was delighted to get on the show, Professor

Daniel Ogden from the University of Exeter.

Daniel has recently written a new book all about the werewolf in antiquity.

He's also written books on the Strix Witch, I believe he's also written a book about

dragons in the ancient world.

This guy has picked an awesome area of ancient history to dedicate his academic life to.

Now we did have some issues with the audio whilst editing this podcast, but our heroic

editor Pete, he has edited this episode as best he can.

There are some really really interesting stories so I do hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

And without further ado, here's Daniel to talk all about the werewolf in the ancient world.

Daniel, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.

And delighted to be here.

Now move over medievalists, we see the werewolf in the ancient Mediterranean world.

That's right, yep.

And first of all Daniel, of all these mythical creatures, why the werewolf?

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