Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact. My name is Eli.

I'm Alice. I'm Irene.

We are a history podcast coming out on the first and 15th of every month,

talking about people, places and things from queer history.

Today we're talking about the Warren Cup. It's a cup and it's gay.

It's a silver Roman cup that depicts male-male sex scenes.

Music It's a silver Roman cup that depicts male-male sex scenes. So content warnings for this episode, the only big one is that we discuss Greco-Roman sexual

mares, which involves adults having sex with

minors and also with slaves at times, so there's obvious serious consent issues there.

We also generally discuss sex in explicit detail. Apart from that, there's some periodical

homophobia and misogyny for way back when the Romans and also for the last couple hundred years.

If that sounds like something you'd rather not listen to, we've got plenty of other episodes

that have different uncomfortable material. So, feel free to go and listen to a different one

instead. So the Warren Cup is literally just a silver cup from the first century C.E.

So from the early Roman Empire.

We're going to talk about the original context of the cup.

We're going to talk about what I depicts and when it was created and what it would have been used for and how it survived to us and a bunch of stuff like that.

But we're also going to talk about its modern history.

So we're going to talk about its first modern collector

and how it ended up in museums

and how museums have dealt with queer artifacts

over the last couple of centuries.

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