Skazka has officially one canned cocktail too many and discusses salacious Roman gossip and its uses. At length. Episode commissioned by NoxElementalist. Topics include: rhetorical uses of bullshit; bygone effeminate gestures; throwing rocks at your enemy’s clitoris; how one vomits into a toga. Special guest star: the velvet-voiced allons_donc as the voice of Cicero. More reading: • The Garden Of Priapus: Sexuality & Aggression In Roman Humor, Amy Richlin • “Mark Antony’s Assault of Publius Clodius: Fact Or Ciceronian Fiction?”, Anthony Alexander • “Problematic Masculinity: Antony and the Political Sphere in Rome”, Rachael Kelly (Kelly’s scholarship on Antony as a figure of flawed masculinity, especially in HBO’s Rome, is really neat) • “Perusinae Glandes and the Changing Image of Augustus”, Judith Hallett If you’d like to commission a drunk ramble of your own, hit up my Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com/skazka. Cover image: Silver denarius depicting Marcus Antonius. (Obverse depicts Cleopatra.) Image licensed by Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. under CC BY-SA 2.5. Music: Majestic Hills by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4013-majestic-hills License: filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3845-ha…ountain-king License: filmmusic.io/standard-license