Ancient Greek & Roman Medicine (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Kristi Upson-Saia and comedian Stu Goldsmith to explore the strange world of Ancient Greek and Roman medicine. Welcome to a world where health was fleeting and water could be dangerous. The team will take you through a variety of common ailments from tight atoms to wandering wombs and provide startling cures in the form of electric eels and beaver anuses. For the full-length version of this episode, please look further back in the feed. Produced by Cornelius Mendez Script by Greg Jenner and Emma Nagouse Research by Hannah MacKenzie A production by The Athletic for BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:05.8	Hello and welcome to Your Dead To Me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
0:09.9	My name is Greg Jenner.
0:10.9	I'm a public-storing author and broadcaster, and on this podcast we treat you with a soothing
0:15.2	sound of two parts book learning and one part chuckles, because laughter is the best medicine.
0:19.9	And today we are grabbing our scalpel and forcibly to journey back to Ancient Greece and Rome,
0:25.1	to learn all about medicine in the classical world.
0:28.0	And to help me diagnose fact from fiction, I'm joined by two very special guests.
0:32.7	In History Corner, she's professor of religious studies at Occidental College in LA, and
0:36.7	is an expert in religions of the late ancient Mediterranean world, but more importantly,
0:40.7	she's co-writing a fascinating new book on Ancient Medicine.
0:43.7	It's professor Christy Upsensaya.
0:44.7	Hello Christy, thank you for coming.
0:46.5	Hi, thanks for having me.
0:48.5	Lovely to be here.
0:49.5	I'm in Comedy Corner.
0:50.5	He's a stand-up comedian, a host of one of my all-time favourite podcasts, The Comedians
0:53.6	Comedian, as well as other podcasts.
0:55.6	And of course you remember him from other episodes of your Dead To Me, Black Beard the
0:58.3	Pirate, Jack Shepard and fandom.
1:00.3	It's Drew Galtmith.
1:01.3	Hi Stu, how are you?
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