***Special Guest Episode on Roman Women and Religion w/Peta Greenfield***
The History of Ancient Greece
Ryan Stitt
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this special guest episode, Peta and I discuss a few aspects in regards to the role of women in the religious sphere of Rome and compare/contrast it with ancient Greece
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2018/10/special-guest-episode-on-roman-women.html
Peta Greenfield
Co-Host of the Partial Historians Podcast
Website: https://partialhistorians.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepartialhistorians/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/p_historians and https://twitter.com/peta_greenfield
TED-Ed Video: Who were the Vestal Virgins, and what was their job? - Peta Greenfield
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. So, The Hello and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece. |
| 0:45.0 | So we are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming for a special guest episode today. |
| 0:52.0 | This will be the second episode in a series of undetermined length, |
| 0:55.8 | where we compare and contrast certain aspects of Greece |
| 0:59.1 | with that of Rome. |
| 1:00.5 | The previous iteration featured a conversation with classicists and podcaster, |
| 1:05.0 | Avon MacMaster, to discuss Roman sexuality. Today we bring on another classicist. |
| 1:11.0 | Fellow podcaster and all-around friend of the show, Peter Greenfield, to discuss a few |
| 1:16.3 | aspects in regards to the role of women in the religious sphere of Rome. That is because in addition |
| 1:21.9 | to being co-host of the partial historians podcast. |
| 1:25.0 | PETA's doctoral dissertation was on the Vestal Virgins, a collective of six priestesses whose temples was located at the edge of the Roman forum, and her research |
| 1:34.8 | interests include the intersection between religion and politics in Rome, and the role of women |
| 1:40.1 | in the late republic and Augustine period. |
| 1:43.0 | So she is the perfect person to bring on to the show for this topic. |
| 1:46.8 | And unsurprisingly, we had an excellent, informative and absolutely hilarious conversation. For those who are fans of our podcast, and you all should be, the hilarious conversation part should come to no surprise. |
| 2:00.0 | Well, today I'm joined with Peter Greenfield from the partial historians. |
| 2:04.0 | Peter, thank you for joining me. |
| 2:06.0 | Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 2:09.0 | So in the last several episodes, we've talked quite a bit about Greek religion and women's roles in both |
| 2:15.9 | the private and the public aspect of religion. So I brought Pido on today since she's an expert in ancient Rome to talk about the |
| 2:24.0 | about the roles that women played in various aspects in religion and ancient |
| 2:27.8 | Rome. |
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