Julius Caesar

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today's episode is on Julius Caesar! Join us for a discussion of Caesar's dress sense, old men yelling at clouds, and our theories on what did happen in that bedroom in Bithynia two thousand years ago. You can also check out our introduction to male sexuality in ancient Rome. Sources

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:04.8	I'm Alice.
0:05.6	I'm Irene.
0:06.6	I'm Eli.
0:07.4	And today we're talking about Julius Caesar.
0:18.4	We have some content warnings for this episode.
0:20.4	There will be mentions of rape, sex between adults and minors and relationships with large age gaps,
0:26.6	discussions of sex, slavery, war, political violence and riots and murder.
0:30.8	If you've listened to our previous episode, you would have noticed that we said we would be talking about Caesar and Nero today.
0:37.9	But in the process of researching and planning this episode,
0:41.5	we realized that we messed up and that we couldn't possibly fit Caesar and narrow into one episode
0:46.9	and keep it a reasonable length.
0:50.6	Basically, we were just fools who forgot that we can't ever shut up long enough to get a reasonable
0:56.3	length podcast episode out of the best of times we are fools we are fools hubristic fools which is
1:04.7	fitting for an episode of the ancient world so we will just be talking about julius here today and
1:09.5	we will be bringing you an episode on Nero
1:11.1	sometime in the future.
1:13.0	We're not sure exactly when we'll be fitting what was supposed to be the second half of this episode into our schedule.
1:17.9	This episode will hopefully be part of a series on queer Roman emperors and Julia Cesar, who's not queer and not an emperor.
1:26.1	Why is he here?
1:29.5	We'll talk about him.
1:30.6	We'll talk about him.
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