The way Natalie Haynes presents the information is clever and fun! I especially enjoy her snide humor and how she relates the past to the present.

Love Natalie and her delivery and scholarship! Good stuff

The laugh track and clapping is just weird. If it wasn’t for that I’d probably follow and listen to more than just 1 but it’s distracting and weird.

My wife & I have been hooked on this podcast & listen every opportunity we have. We were concerned as we approached the last episode only to just see a new episode. Oh joy (or whatever a Greek or Roman would say)!

I’ve just discovered you(through History Extra podcast), so I’ll have a few days’ worth of listening. But it seems this one has ended last April. I think you’re terrific. I’m about to buy your latest books. Thank you from an ex-classicist and retired professor of Italian studies. Edited to say, however, that Tomis was not on the moon. The city was founded by Greek merchants from Miletus in the 6th century BCE (so not that far from the founding of Rome in 753BCE) and was an important port on the Black Sea. It was conquered by the Romans in 71 BC and renamed Constantiana by Roman Emperor Constantine in honor of his half-sister. It was destroyed by the Avars in 597. Finally one more point: your guest, so ungracious towards Tomis, spoke the most dreadful Latin I had the misfortune to hear.

Our whole family loves listening to this podcast, Natalie is brilliant and hilarious, the perfect combination!!

Hoping for more episodes. Natalie Haynes has got me excited about the classics!

I love to listen while gardening or working in our lavender farm shop. Natalie is always informative and entertaining. I’m binge re-listening while awaiting more episodes.

Bingeworthy!

Funny, engaging, intelligent, but riddled with politics and an inability to read ancient literature without superimposing a modern, moralistic, worldview. Do better.

Natalie Haynes makes the ancient world relevant for modern listeners.

Love laughing and learning all at the same time.

Fun, entertaining presentation of interesting topics!

This podcast is my favorite. It’s the one I rationed out episodes and didn’t let myself binge so I could make them last! Natalie and guests take a topic that is full of life but has been sold through most of our educational experiences as fusty, old, arcana and entirely revives it. Every episode is funny, engaging, and enlightening. They are not-to-be-missed entertainment, the first, second, or even third time you listen to them.

I almost never write reviews but I felt compelled to for Natalie because although I feel this pod is a bit niche, it is so great for those of us who love classics, the Greeks, and mythology generally. I have been interested in these topics since I was a child but still learn something new each episode, and am always entertained by Natalie’s charming, witty, and funny personality. Her passion for the subject shines through this podcast!

This is my favorite podcast. Natalie Haynes is witty, lively, and supremely clear in her presentation of Greek tales and different scholarly takes. I’ve learned and laughed a lot. Thank you!

Really liked these, but there not enough of them. Please continue!

I love these shows and would love many, many more episodes PLEASE. P.S. A Thousand Ships is an amazing book, thank you for that also Natalie!

I cannot overstate how amazing this is - makes the classics accessible and relevant and funny and as brilliant and complex as they are.