{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69a075db4e00bcfd666b5fa8/6a6c2ac30d497875ebe32b6b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"How Gay Was Ancient Greece?","description":"<p>This week, we take it back a few millennia to the time of Ancient Greece, exploring the super gay myths and legends used to explain and sanctify the sexual behaviors of the Greeks themselves. But how did Greek myths define sexuality? How different were Greek ideas of sexual identity from our own? What do we get wrong when we project our contemporary labels onto people in antiquity? And can a couple of buddies get oiled up and wrestle naked and still be just friends?? Tangents include CATS: The Jellicle Ball, why Leos are obsessed with their birthdays, and the possibility of moving Busch Gardens Williamsburg to Williamsburg, Brooklyn.</p><p>SOURCES</p><ul><li><a href=\"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYZCpJmHAqI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYZCpJmHAqI</a></li><li>Clarke, W. M. (1978). Achilles and Patroclus in Love. Hermes, 106(3), 381–396. <a href=\"http://www.jstor.org/stable/4476069\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.jstor.org/stable/4476069</a></li><li>“Friday essay: the myth of the ancient Greek ‘gay utopia’” by Alastair Blanshard, The Conversation, December 14, 2017</li><li>Halperin, D. M. (1986). One Hundred Years of Homosexuality [Review of Die Griechische Knabenliebe, by H. Patzer]. Diacritics, 16(2), 34–45. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.2307/465069 \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://doi.org/10.2307/465069 </a></li><li>A Problem in Greek Ethics” by John Addington Symonds</li><li><em>Lovers’ Legends: Gay Greek Myths</em> by Andrew Calimach</li></ul>","author_name":"Jared Tetreau & Abe Merker"}