• Ancient Greek Sexual Health: Wandering Wombs & Headless Beetles

  • Apr 23 2024
  • Length: 44 mins
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Ancient Greek Sexual Health: Wandering Wombs & Headless Beetles

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  • If there’s one thing you’ll find out from this episode, it’s that the Ancient Greeks were better at philosophy than gynaecology.


    Struggling to conceive? You might be given a stuffed dead puppy to provoke fertility.


    Helping Kate make sense of Ancient Greek gynaecology today is Helen King, author of Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece.


    What questions will a visit to an Ancient Greek doctor be like? How would you stop your womb from wandering? And how would your body temperature help define your gender?


    This episode was edited by Tom Delargy. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.


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