This episode has been released today! Listen to me with host @k8lister.bsky.social on the history of love letters and erotic letters, primarily in antiquity but looking at modern developments too. The episode is titled "The Origins of Sexting": listener discretion is advised! - ThreadSky

owenhodkinson.bsky.social • 37 days ago

This episode has been released today! Listen to me with host @k8lister.bsky.social on the history of love letters and erotic letters, primarily in antiquity but looking at modern developments too.

The episode is titled "The Origins of Sexting": listener discretion is advised!

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becsf.bsky.social•36 days ago

Really enjoyable listen; some aspects were ‘enlightening’ and it added to the usual frustration of hearing of how the judgments/views of intervening periods have affected what historians can view and evaluate.

owenhodkinson.bsky.social•36 days ago

Thank you!
Yes, there's so much of that kind of thing...

yourinnermonologue.bsky.social•36 days ago

Is the Ovid letter the same one from Cattulus poem, a girl he was in love with but he found she was a lesbian
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_5?variant=zh-cn

owenhodkinson.bsky.social•36 days ago

The Ovid letters I mentioned were these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroides, for a translation e.g. https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Heroideshome.php. I talked about the writers' tears (Heroides 3 and 15) or blood (11) falling on the page of the letter in specific examples, and the letter from Sappho is 15.

owenhodkinson.bsky.social•36 days ago

I might have mentioned Catullus in connection with Sappho, as he translated in his poem 51 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_51 a poem of Sappho (31 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_31)

yourinnermonologue.bsky.social•36 days ago

Yes thank you. It was ages ago I was studying ancient history and hat poem from Catullus stuck with me bc Weezer's song Pink Triangle was really popular at the same time and you knew it was about the same thing! That just blew my mind.

owenhodkinson.bsky.social•36 days ago

Interesting. I'd not come across that song - afraid the only song of theirs I could name is Buddy Holly.