Noble Blood - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I’ve listened for years, but as a serial lurker I’ve never left a review. The excellent inclusion of horse puns in the most recent episode finally corralled me into leaving a review. I’ve always enjoyed history, Dana’s storytelling makes it a pure joy to listen.

I love this podcast! It’s well written, narrated, and produced. Highly entertaining, this is one of my favorites to listen to while I’m cleaning, cooking, and running errands. I also really enjoy the wide variety of content that is covered!

I’ve listened to this podcast since its inception several years ago and always really enjoyed it. I’ve also bought, read, and recommended Dana’s books. She does an incredible job of examining sources, presenting multiple perspectives of historical stories, and narrating them as entertaining anecdotes- no easy task, for sure. However, this most recent episode regarding Elagabalus is just ludicrous. Acknowledging the issue with the sources surrounding Elagabalus’ “gender identity” and then still choosing to refer to him with feminine pronouns is just wild. Shall we call Caligula a deity then? And Incitatus a consul? Since that is how identified themselves, according to Suetonius. Also, the mispronunciation of Macrinus (mack-REE-nuhs) is so distracting and exposes a surface level depth of research into the topic. Dana’s done such a lovely job with medieval and Renaissance histories, and many other time periods and places, but please consult a Classicist before another venture into antiquity.

Really impressed with this podcast! I’ve never been a history person, but I had a teacher recommend it to me, and I binged the first 50 episodes in a month and a half! Please don’t let the negativity stop you from continuing Noble Blood! I love it!