Daniel Ogden
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Oct 28, 2026
Nate WrightHOST
We equip current and emerging cultural leaders with Christian worldview, apologetics, and philosophy in order to... bring the claims of Jesus into every sphere of life.
Nate WrightHOST
Today on the podcast, I'm joined by our founder and president, Dr. Joe Boot, and we are joined by one of our fellows, Daniel Ogden, who is our fellow for international law and international relations.
Nate WrightHOST
How are you today, Daniel?
Daniel OgdenGUEST
Good.
Nate WrightHOST
We equip current and emerging cultural leaders with Christian worldview, apologetics, and philosophy in order to... bring the claims of Jesus into every sphere of life.
Nate WrightHOST
Today on the podcast, I'm joined by our founder and president, Dr. Joe Boot, and we are joined by one of our fellows, Daniel Ogden, who is our fellow for international law and international relations.
Nate WrightHOST
How are you today, Daniel?
Daniel OgdenGUEST
Good.
Nate WrightHOST
We equip current and emerging cultural leaders with Christian worldview, apologetics, and philosophy in order to... bring the claims of Jesus into every sphere of life.
Nate WrightHOST
Today on the podcast, I'm joined by our founder and president, Dr. Joe Boot, and we are joined by one of our fellows, Daniel Ogden, who is our fellow for international law and international relations.
Nate WrightHOST
How are you today, Daniel?
Daniel OgdenGUEST
Good.
Tanandra KallenbergerHOST
And just as a quick little spark note addition to bring you all back up to who Erechthro was back in the ancient day and time, well, she was a terrifying sorceress and witch that was said to have lived in tombs and collected human body parts to use in her dark magic.
Tanandra KallenbergerHOST
And we have a description of her from Daniel Ogden's Greco-Roman necromancy book.
Tanandra KallenbergerHOST
Quote, "...the smoking ashes and burning bones of the young she snatches from the center of the pyre." This is a funerary pyre that she's in reference to.
Tanandra KallenbergerHOST
"...and the very torch from the hands of the parents she gathers up the pieces of the beer fluttering in the black smoke and the grave clothes as they crumble into ashes and the cinders that reek of the corpse." but when the dead are confined in stone which drains off the internal moisture absorbs the corruption of the marrow and makes the corpse rigid then the witch eagerly vents her rage on all the limbs thrusting her fingers into the eyes, scooping out gleefully the stiffened eyeballs and gnawing the yellow nails on the withered hand.
Nate WrightHOST
We equip current and emerging cultural leaders with Christian worldview, apologetics, and philosophy in order to... bring the claims of Jesus into every sphere of life.
Nate WrightHOST
Today on the podcast, I'm joined by our founder and president, Dr. Joe Boot, and we are joined by one of our fellows, Daniel Ogden, who is our fellow for international law and international relations.
Nate WrightHOST
How are you today, Daniel?
Daniel OgdenGUEST
Good.
Brian GodawaPANELIST
There's a book that I found, which is kind of interesting.
Brian GodawaPANELIST
It's called The Werewolf in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden.
Brian GodawaPANELIST
And he takes a more academic approach, and he says, like, in terms of literature, the first, you know, story of the werewolf is in Petronius, Satyricon, which is, like, AD 66 or so that he could find, I guess.
Brian GodawaPANELIST
And maybe he's focusing more on classical literature, but...
Jen McMenemyHOST
Absolutely.
Jen McMenemyHOST
And again, we're gonna talk about this in one of our episodes, I don't know if it'll drop before or after this, with Daniel Ogden.
Jen McMenemyHOST
We have also talked about this in both of our vampires episodes.
Jen McMenemyHOST
Like, in the ancient world, when you don't know what's going on, and you have someone who seems really healthy and then falls dead, putting a supernatural explanation on it is kind of A way to help your brain process what's just happened, because otherwise it's kind of unthinkable, right? It's just, it's difficult to process the grief and that sudden shock.
Robert LambHOST
Now, uh, I, I wanna mention again a couple of sources that I'm gonna refer to.
Robert LambHOST
One is Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity by D. Felton, and then the other is Magic, Witch- Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden.
Robert LambHOST
Um, both of these are great authors.
Robert LambHOST
These are both really fun books.
Robert LambHOST
Uh, one is by D. Felton, a professor of classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, published in 1999, titled Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity.
Robert LambHOST
And the other is Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman World by Daniel Ogden, professor of ancient history at the University of Exeter.
Robert LambHOST
Uh, this is the second edition from 2009.
Robert LambHOST
Uh, both r- uh, authors have published numerous works that are right in the Stuff to Blow Your Mind zone of classical studies, including Ogden's The Werewolf in the Ancient World, uh, or Werewolves of the Ancient World.
Robert LambHOST
Um, I, I'm blanking on which title it actually is, but I referenced this work in my Monster Fact werewolf series last year, a- and it's a great read.
Joe McCormickHOST
I just had to look it up to remember which episode it was, but we talked about an article by Daniel Ogden in our series on necromancy from-
Robert LambHOST
Yes
Joe McCormickHOST
... one or two years ago, 'cause he had some stuff about this, too.
Ryan DensonGUEST
This is why I'm in on social media and stuff and other appearances.
Ryan DensonGUEST
I'm And I was supervised by Daniel Ogden, who is another classicist, and he does similar types of stuff on dragons and werewolves and the supernatural and that sort of thing.
Ryan DensonGUEST
And that's kind of where my interest lies, too, of doing work on ancient conceptions of the supernatural and magic and folklore, mythical beasts, that sort of thing, imaginary animals, etc.
Ryan DensonGUEST
At the moment, I'm working on a research project for the NCN, which is the Polish Research Council.
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Ryan DensonGUEST
Yes.
Ryan DensonGUEST
I mean, this is something, I mean, some people don't associate this sort of thing with the ancient world, but it's, I mean, necromancy and things like that are a big thing in antiquity.
Ryan DensonGUEST
I mean, Daniel Ogden has written a whole book on Ancient Greek and Roman necromancy.
Ryan DensonGUEST
And in the Odyssey narrative, I mean, it's Odysseus is basically told to go perform this ceremony to speak to the dead prophet Tiresias, who will then tell him the proper way.