Alexander The Great Sex's Life

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Was he as great in bed as he was at conquering the Persian empire?

Whether he even had time for it, is another question. In today's episode, we're revisiting a conversation Kate had with History Hit's Tristan Hughes, host of our sister podcast The Ancients.

What did young Alexander learn from his dad's charming ways? Did he take both male and female lovers? Let's go Betwixt the ancient sheets, to find out.

This episode was edited by Tom Delargy. The producer was Stuart Beckwith and Sophie Gee. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	Hello my lovely betwixters how are you?
0:04.3	Oh I'm so pleased that you have dropped by yet again.
0:08.3	I have so much fun talking to you know the
0:13.5	know what's coming your way you know what we have to do you know the drill that's
0:17.6	right it is your fair do's warning this is an adult podcast spoken by adults
0:22.1	to other adults about adulty things in an adult
0:24.0	way covering a range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too.
0:28.6	Wha, I don't know about you, but I feel safer.
0:32.0	Right, on with the show.
0:34.0	Hello but Twixters, fancy joining me for a bit of wedding crashing in the ancient world?
0:47.0	Well of course you do.
0:49.0	The year is approximately 338 BC and Philip the second of Macedon is marrying his seventh wife
0:59.3	Cleopatra not that Cleopatra clear patra,
1:03.0	honestly it causes no end of confusion.
1:06.0	Oh!
1:07.0	And it's toast time.
1:09.0	Everybody, listen,
1:10.0	upstands a potential successor to him, Attilus, who is Cleopatra's uncle and a general to Philip.
1:20.0	Hmm, big mover and shaker. Controversially, he says to Philip,
1:25.0	may the gods give you legitimate children to succeed you to the throne of Macedon.
1:31.0	That sounds quite nice on the surface but that is some serious shade being thrown at the
1:38.0	teenage Alexander who is also in attendance because his mother, Olympia, is not a Macedonian.
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