Male Sexuality in Ancient Rome

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Today's episode is on male sexuality in Ancient Rome! Listen on for ancient same sex marriages, dirty Latin poetry, and the wittiest retort you'll hear all week. Also: some weird facts about hyenas! (Note: the image above is an 1827 sculpture by French artist Jean-Baptiste Roman on the theme of Ancient Roman sexuality. It's not a genuine Roman work.) Transcript available here Sources

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact.
0:01.7	The podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:04.7	I'm Alice.
0:05.5	I'm Eli.
0:06.3	I'm Irene.
0:07.4	Today I'm going to be talking about male sexuality in ancient Rome.
0:18.8	We have some content warnings before we start this episode.
0:22.3	We're going to be talking about rape, sex between adults and minors and slavery.
0:26.0	There's also going to be explicit discussions of sex and swearing.
0:29.3	Before we get started properly, I'm going to be talking about the Roman Republic and then the Roman Empire
0:34.3	from around 200 BCE to around 200 CE.
0:39.0	We're planning some future episodes on specific Roman emperors.
0:42.0	So today I'm just going to talk more generally about Roman understandings of and Roman
0:46.4	attitudes to male-male sex.
0:48.9	I haven't included anything about women in here because I would like to cover that in a separate episode
0:56.8	rather than doing the thing that academics always do where they just give women a small
1:00.6	addendum to something that claims to be about homosexuality but it's really just about male
1:04.2	homosexuality. So when I say I'm going to be talking about men, specifically what I'm going to
1:10.2	be talking about mostly is male Roman citizens.
1:13.4	So that doesn't include slaves, it doesn't include foreigners living in Rome, and it sometimes
1:20.8	includes, but sometimes doesn't include freedmen, so people who were slaves but have now
1:24.9	become citizens. They are in a bit of a kind of grey zone between the two.
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