071 Love, Sex, and Prostitution
The History of Ancient Greece
Ryan Stitt
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss Greek love and sexuality by examining the formal social institution known as pederasty; the various theories of love as described by Plato (through various speakers) in his treatise, the Symposion; the various methods in which Athenian males (and non-citizen women) were able to have sex; the depiction of nudity and genitalia in art and masturbation; the various types of female and male prostitutes; pictorial and medical evidence for the daily life of prostitutes and philosophical and comedic representation of prostitution; and the lives of several famous hetairai (Rhodopis, Thargelia, Aspasia, Phryne, and Neaira)
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2018/03/071-love-sex-and-prostitution.html
Intro by Neil of the Ancient Blogger Podcast
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the history of ancient Greece podcast and more specifically to an episode titled |
| 0:05.6 | Love Sex and Prostitution and in the spirit of this Ryan has kindly allowed me to flaunt my metaphorical |
| 0:11.1 | wares. I'm ancient blogger and on my website ancient |
| 0:14.6 | blogger.com you can find a variety of ancient history themed content. Just to |
| 0:19.4 | give you a taste I've written articles about bees and beekeeping in antiquity, a singing mountain from Greek myth, |
| 0:26.3 | PTSD and Greek tragedy and even a tombstone dedicated to a pig. |
| 0:31.2 | On my website there's a link to my ancient blogger YouTube channel. |
| 0:34.5 | You can watch vlogs of yours truly guiding you around my Roman, Legionary armour and weaponry. |
| 0:39.5 | There's also other topics such as Greek vases and even how to carve a pumpkin to look like |
| 0:44.1 | Greek vase. Quite literally cutting edge stuff. More recently and somewhat |
| 0:48.3 | inspired by Ryan I've started podcasting. I've got a few podcasts up, the most recent being a two-parter all about STIs in Antiquity, |
| 0:56.2 | and this seems particularly apt to give in the episode you're about to listen to. |
| 0:59.8 | So why not download it after listening to Ryan's excellent upcoming episode. |
| 1:03.9 | You can find the ancient blogger podcast on iTunes, Libsin and Sound Cloud, but again the links are |
| 1:09.7 | all on my website. |
| 1:11.2 | Of course failing all of this, you can just tweet me. I've started all |
| 1:14.8 | of this on Twitter where I am you guessed at ancient blogger. I'm always putting |
| 1:19.4 | links of my content up on there and all the great ancient history tweets from people such as Ryan. |
| 1:24.0 | Feel free to follow me or just say hi. I really hope you enjoy the following episode. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm certainly looking forward to it. Take care and keep safe. So, The Hello and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece. |
| 2:16.0 | Episode 71, love, sex and prostitution. |
| 2:22.0 | Looking at Greek sexuality tells us quite a bit about our own conceptions of sexuality and love, |
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