ancient greece

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Plutarch’s Life of Pericles (Bernadotte Perrin translation) Plato’s Menexenus (Benjamin Jowett translation) [...Read More...]

Last week, we told you about the lives of five elite courtesans in Classical Athens. But we left someone out–perhaps the most elite hetaera of them all. Long-term [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World, Essays elited by Christopher A. Faraone & Laura K. McClure [...Read More...]

In our last few episodes on sex workers in ancient Greece, we tried to paint a picture of a group of women, in some cases, with more freedom and independence than most in the [...Read More...]

The symposia–all-male drinking parties–were the playground and hunting ground of Athens’ elite courtesans. But they had their dangers, too. Join us as we [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World, Essays elited by Christopher A. Faraone & Laura K. McClure [...Read More...]

The conventional wisdom is that sex workers in ancient Greece were divided into two main categories: pornai who were enslaved in brothels, and hetaerae, who were elite [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World, Essays elited by Christopher A. Faraone & Laura K. McClure [...Read More...]

Here are the sources that helped us bring the Thracians to life. The Warriors of Thrace (Discover Bulgaria Website) Roman Expansion in Thrace (Balkancelts WordPress) The [...Read More...]

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