The Truth About the Roman Orgy (And More!)
Oct 31, 2021•37 min•Ep. 147
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Episode description
Was Ancient Rome truly as sexually liberated as we think? How did the Greeks feel about nude statues? And how did these ideas vary across the Ancient Mediterranean? In this episode, Alastair Blanshard is back on The Ancients to compare our misconceptions of ancient sexual fantasies with the truth. Having taught at the universities of Oxford and Reading, Alastair is currently Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland, Australia.
His book on this topic is ‘Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity’.
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