The Greeks – and the Athenians in particular – were lionised by the Victorians for their art, their culture, and their military prowess. But the ancient Greeks also worried the Victorians because they seemed to permit sexual relationships between males. In this podcast, Shivaike Shah and his guest, Professor Daniel Orrells from the Department of Classics at King’s College London, explore the nineteenth-century debates about ‘Greek love’. Shivaike and Daniel talk about how Victorian men who were attracted to other males turned back to the ancient Greeks, and ask what we ought to make today of this example of Victorian philhellenism.

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