Episode Details

Woman Plus Woman in Classical Rome The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 77 with Heather Rose Jones

A critical look at the evidence regarding sexual and romantic relationships between women in Classical Rome.

In this episode we talk about:

• The Roman “sexual system”
• How women break the pattern
• How Roman women had sex with each other
• Same-sex marriage in the Roman empire
• The causes and meaning of same-sex desire
• Imagining sex and love between women
• Women’s voices
• Martial’s epigrams on sexually aggressive women
• Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans
• Women’s relationships elsewhere in the empire: Celts and Egyptians

A list of sources and links can be found in the transcript

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)