Wolfmen and amazons: why did the Greeks and Romans demonise their neighbours?

History Extra podcast

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4.3 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Fearsome Amazons. Men who turned into wolves. Tribes who never grew old. Ancient Greek and Roman sources are packed with extraordinary descriptions of the peoples living beyond their borders. Speaking to Spencer Mizen, Dr Owen Rees explores these classical superpowers' sense of cultural superiority and reveals what we can learn about the ancient world by exploring life on the frontiers of empires. (Ad) Owen Rees is the author of The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past (Bloomsbury, 2025). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Far-Edges-Known-World-History/dp/1526653788/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:23.4	Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you.
1:25.9	Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.
1:35.4	Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.
1:45.2	Fearsome Amazons, men who turned into wolves, and tribes who never grew old.
1:53.0	Ancient Greek and Roman texts are packed with extraordinary descriptions of the people living
1:59.1	beyond their borders. Here in conversation with Spencer
2:02.9	Misen, Dr Owen Reese, who's written a new book on the subject, explores these classical
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