Welcome to season 4, episode 4!

Ever wonder what used to happen at Ancient Roman weddings? Well, wonder no longer...we´re here to enlighten you! Some of the things we´ll talk about will be very familiar - flowers, veils, priests, wine, even the odd rude joke. Some will be not so familiar... And here we´re in the realms of sacrificial sheep, omens-a-plenty and excessive walnut throwing.

We reveal all, with the help of these very illustrious wedding guests:

Seneca the Younger (maybe), "Octavia", Act IV from lines 693

Plutarch, "Roman Questions", 29

Gaius, "Institutiones", section 112

Catullus, extracts from "Poems", 61

Music credit goes to our resident composers: Phil Russell & Alice Morgan. You can find Alice on Instagram - missalicekeys.

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