Sex Workers

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What happened to people in ancient Rome who were freed from slavery? Turns out there were still invisible threads–economic pressures, imbalances of status, and debts [...Read More...]

How did sex workers in ancient Greece and Rome manage their periods? What were the most popular fashions for pubic hair? What underwear was everyone wearing? And how did sex [...Read More...]

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Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Venus and Aphrodite: History of a Goddess by Bettany Hughes Hesiod’s Theogony (Hugh G. Evelyn-White translation) [...Read More...]

If you know anything about Aphrodite, then you know she is the ancient Greek goddess primarily associated with love, beauty, sex, reproduction, and passion. She was also the [...Read More...]

The Lupanar, or “Wolf Den,” is the infamous brothel of Pompeii. Elodie Harper’s bestselling novel follows the lives of the sex workers who lived and worked [...Read More...]

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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...]