Welcome to the ninth episode of Speaking to the Dead. Where Doug Rooney and Will Stafford read historic texts and put them in conversation with the modern-day. The only rule: the author must be dead!

In this episode, Will makes the dubious choice of turning to the ancient Roman stoic Gaius Musonius Rufus for wedding advice.  Learn about the truly shocking extent of patriarchy in Rome and how Rufus offers for his time a radical view of harmony in marriage.