Archeology of the Journey Podcast

Love Language of the Ancients Part II: Erotic Love Spells, Magic and Ritual with Author and Scholar Radcliffe Edmonds


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In part II of our exploration of the love language of the ancients we go from the descriptive to the prescriptive with our guest is Radcliffe Edmonds, Paul Shorey Professor of Greek and Chair of the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College and the author of Bringing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World. His expertise on magic, religion and the occult in the ancient world leads us through the duality of love and war and the tantilizing erotic spells of the Greco-Roman word.  We attempt to answer the age-old question: Is all fair in love and war?

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