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A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
The Marriage(?) of Berenike and Mesopotamia
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 223 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- References to women’s same-sex desire in 2-5th c Egypt
- The 2nd c Greek novel Babyloniaka and it’s possible presentation of marriage between two women.
- The full discussion of Iamblichos’ Babyloniaka can be found in this blog entry which has links to the source materials I used.
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Babyloniaka (Iamblichos)
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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