The Endless Knot

By Mark Sundaram & Aven McMaster

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Aven & Mark discuss etymology, history, literature, language, and cocktails, and the sometimes surprising connections between them all.

Episode Date
Episode 123: Words Christmas Gave Us, with Grace Tierney
Dec 17, 2024
Episode 122: Says Who, with Anne Curzan
May 01, 2024
Episode 121: The Vesuvius Challenge, with Stephen Parsons
Mar 31, 2024
Episode 120: Swimming in History, with Karen Carr
Feb 29, 2024
Episode 119: An Ecological Chain
Jan 31, 2024
Episode 118: A Crisis of Masculinity, with Melanie Racette-Campbell
Aug 31, 2023
Episode 117: A Brief History of Misogyny
Jul 04, 2023
Episode 116: A Quiverful of Time Arrows
May 30, 2023
Episode 115: Like, Literally, Dude! with Valerie Fridland
Apr 25, 2023
Episode 114a: The XYZ’s of Spelling
Apr 04, 2023
Episode 114: The ABC’s of Spelling
Mar 28, 2023
Bonus: Livestream Q&A from LingFest23
Feb 28, 2023
Announcement: LingFest23 Q&A Livestream
Feb 09, 2023
Episode 113: Ovid's Metamorphoses in the 21st Century
Jan 31, 2023
Episode 112: The Bellini, Art, and Patronage
Dec 29, 2022
Episode 111: Haggard Hawks, back again!
Nov 29, 2022
Episode 110: Music and Language
Oct 29, 2022
Episode 109: Endangered Alphabets, with Tim Brookes
Sep 13, 2022
Episode 108: Widows, Indian Independence, and Partition
Aug 10, 2022
Episode 107: Polar Regions, Comics, and Classics, with Natalie Swain
Jul 12, 2022
Episode 106: Future in the Past?
Jun 07, 2022
Episode 105: Dionysus, Translation, & Queering Greek Drama with Emma Pauly
May 03, 2022
Episode 104: Words the Vikings Gave Us, with Grace Tierney
Apr 12, 2022
Bonus: Karaoke April Fools!
Apr 01, 2022
Episode 103: Potatoes for Saint Patrick
Mar 15, 2022
Episode 102: Baking Greek Bread, with Josh Nudell
Feb 22, 2022
Episode 101: Not Your Average Podcast
Jan 31, 2022
Episode 100: Celebrating Connections
Dec 09, 2021
Episode 99: Heavy Metal Music and Antiquity, with Jeremy Swist
Nov 15, 2021
Episode 98: The Monster Episode of Monsters
Oct 27, 2021
Episode 97: Aegyptiaca Romana, with Bet Hucks
Sep 28, 2021
Episode 96: What's the Earliest English Word?
Sep 06, 2021
Episode 95: Reckonings, with Stephen Chrisomalis
Aug 17, 2021
Episode 94: Catullus & Shibari, with Isobel Williams
Jul 27, 2021
Episode 93: The Americano, the Negroni, America, and Rome
Jul 05, 2021
Episode 92: Canuck, and Re-Thinking Canada's Story
Jun 28, 2021
Episode 91: Roman Gardens, with Victoria Austen
May 25, 2021
Episode 90: Unrolling Books and Evolving Words
Apr 26, 2021
Switcheroo 2021!
Apr 01, 2021
Episode 89: Horses in Antiquity, with Carolyn Willekes
Mar 17, 2021
Announcement: Online Course
Feb 27, 2021
Episode 88: Meta-Etymology
Feb 15, 2021
Episode 87: Alexander the Great, with Meg Finlayson
Jan 25, 2021
Episode 86: Who's on Your Calendar?
Dec 26, 2020
Episode 85: Election Talk to Take Your Mind off the Election
Nov 03, 2020
Episode 84: Linoleum: It's Not As Boring As You Think!
Oct 11, 2020
Episode 83: Recipes and Authority, from Intelligent Speech
Aug 06, 2020
Episode 82: Plagues, with Moxie from Your Brain on Facts
Jul 06, 2020
Episode 81: The Rise (and Fall) of Skywalker
Jun 05, 2020
Episode 80: Runes and Early Writing Systems
Apr 10, 2020
Episode 79: Sex & Gender
Feb 11, 2020
Episode 78: An Etymological Holiday Feast
Dec 17, 2019
Bonus Episode: Thorneloe Race Forum
Dec 10, 2019
Episode 77: SoundEdu19, with Scott Lepisto
Nov 19, 2019
Episode 76: Do You Believe in Magic?
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 75: Tracking Monsters, with Liz Gloyn
Oct 08, 2019
Episode 74: Medieval Fact & Fiction, with Winston Black
Sep 10, 2019
Episode 73: Things Get Weird
Aug 13, 2019
Episode 72: Dispatches from VidCon 2019
Jul 16, 2019
Episode 71: Enlisting Imagination under the Banner of Science
Jun 18, 2019
Episode 70: Carly Silver
May 17, 2019
Episode 69: The Spirit of the Age
Apr 01, 2019
Episode 68: Glossed in Translation
Mar 15, 2019
Episode 67: Mortal Republic, by Edward Watts
Feb 18, 2019
Episode 66: Writing Myth with Amalia Dillin
Jan 18, 2019
Episode 65: Reindeer Games
Dec 11, 2018
Episode 64: The History of the English Language with Kevin Stroud
Nov 16, 2018
Episode 62: Etymological Ghosts
Oct 22, 2018
Episode 61: Classing up our Languages?
Sep 30, 2018
Episode 60: What We Did on Our Summer Vacation
Aug 24, 2018
Quick Announcement
Jun 28, 2018
Episode 59: From the Sublime to the Romantic
Jun 08, 2018
Episode 58: Symposium!
May 18, 2018
Episode 57: Freebooting, Piracy, & Copyright
Apr 26, 2018
Episode 56: Linguistic Discrimination, with The Vocal Fries
Apr 11, 2018
Episode 55: Our Pet Topic (part two, with cats)
Mar 21, 2018
Episode 54: Our Pet Topic (part one)
Feb 28, 2018
Episode 53: Tiki or Not Tiki?
Feb 15, 2018
Episode 52: Race & Racism in Ancient & Medieval Studies, Part Two: Responses
Jan 31, 2018
Episode 51: Race & Racism in Ancient & Medieval Studies, Part One: the Problem
Jan 17, 2018
Episode 50: Translating the Odyssey, with Emily Wilson
Jan 03, 2018
Episode 49: Stocking Stuffers & Christmas Treats
Dec 20, 2017
Episode 48: Talking Teaching with Mythtake!
Dec 06, 2017
Episode 47: Why Bob Dylan Matters, with Richard Thomas
Nov 22, 2017
Episode 46: Mike Duncan & The Storm before the Storm
Nov 08, 2017
Episode 45: Costumes & the Language of Fashion
Oct 27, 2017
Episode 44: "Us" & "Them" in the Ancient & Early English Worlds
Oct 13, 2017
Episode 43: Hercules the Much-Filmed
Sep 27, 2017
Episode 42: Bugging Out!
Sep 13, 2017
Episode 41: Arrival, Linguistics, & Time
Aug 30, 2017
Episode 40: The Cottage, Language, & Poetry
Aug 17, 2017
Episode 39: From Fossil Hunters to Mammoth Cheese
Jul 19, 2017
Episode 38: Wonder Woman & the Amazons
Jul 05, 2017
Episode 37: What is a Recipe? with Laura Carlson
Jun 20, 2017
Episode 36: Looking for the Legend in Guy Ritchie's King Arthur
Jun 07, 2017
Episode 35: Season to Taste
May 26, 2017
Episode 34: The Gimlet & the Diseases of Colonialism
May 10, 2017
Episode 33: Purple, Pink, & Brown
Apr 28, 2017
Episode 32: Ariadne's Clue
Apr 13, 2017
Episode 31: #CreateICG
Mar 22, 2017
Episode 30: Baba Brinkman & Peer-Reviewed Rap
Mar 10, 2017
Episode 29: Evolution, with Ray Belli
Feb 27, 2017
Episode 28: Coach, or The History (& Future?) of Education
Feb 17, 2017
Episode 27: Yellow & Orange
Jan 31, 2017
Episode 26: Rogue One
Jan 14, 2017
Episode 25: Twelve Days
Dec 06, 2016
Episode 24: Talking Turkey
Nov 21, 2016
Episode 23: Dirk Gently
Nov 14, 2016
Episode 22: Jack o'Lantern
Oct 26, 2016
Episode 21: Haggard Hawks
Oct 10, 2016
Episode 20: Blue & Green
Sep 12, 2016
Episode 19: Beef
Aug 02, 2016
Episode 18: Beer
Jul 13, 2016
Episode 17: Loaf
Jun 15, 2016
Episode 16: Red
May 18, 2016
Episode 15: Stephen Le
Apr 25, 2016
Episode 14: Cocktail
Apr 08, 2016
Bonus: #WhanThatAprilleDay
Apr 01, 2016
Episode 13: Album
Mar 03, 2016
Episode 12: David Hein & Irene Sankoff
Feb 18, 2016
Episode 11: Cuckold
Feb 07, 2016
Patreon Announcement
Jan 26, 2016
Episode 10: James Andean
Jan 25, 2016
Episode 9: The Force Awakens
Jan 15, 2016
Episode 8: Yule
Dec 17, 2015
Episode 7: The Story of Narrative
Nov 09, 2015
Brief Announcement
Oct 31, 2015
Episode 6: Paddle Your Own Canoe
Sep 28, 2015
Episode 5: Janice Liedl
Sep 14, 2015
Episode 4: Carpe Diem!
Aug 31, 2015
Episode 3: From Plato to Pluto
Aug 07, 2015
Episode 2: A Detective Story
Jul 28, 2015
Episode 1: Introduction to The Endless Knot
Jul 06, 2015