Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Like so many other aspects of daily life in the ancient world, love in ancient Rome was both strikingly familiar and deeply strange...
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:42 Cupid
1:20 Platonic love
2:04 Love in literature
2:45 Ovid's Art of Love
3:35 FOREO
4:40 Ovid's love advice
5:48 Sulpicia and Petronius
6:35 Severus and Successus
7:17 Roman marriage
8:03 Marriages, arranged and otherwise
9:22 Love in the army
9:43 Prostitution