The image of the debauched Roman orgy—a haze of wine, group sex, and decadence—is one of history’s most enduring clichés. But according to historian Emma Southern, it is almost entirely a myth, a…
Emma Southern — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Emma Southern has appeared on 3 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society, The Ancients. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Emma said
“The Christians at every point of Christian history talk about [sex] as much as the Romans did. Easily, because if not more, because they're trying to stop it.”
— Emma Southern
“They're never complaining that they've got to go to too many orgies, and they're always complaining that they've got to go to too many paperwork meetings.”
— Emma Southern
Episode appearances
3 In 319 CE, the Emperor Constantine issued a law so specific it reads like a catalogue of horrors: you could no longer poison your enslaved workers, hang them, crucify them, throw them off…
How Slavery Built the Roman Empire In the British Museum sits a small statuette rarely displayed: an African child, curled into a fetal position, a wooden tag around his neck, tears on his face.…
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