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I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the world-renowned Classics scholar and professor at the University of Cambridge, Caroline Vout! \n\nToday we are discussing all sorts of figures in Classics, from Venus to Hermaphroditus. \n\nBorn in Durham, Vout studied for a BA at Newnham College Cambridge, completed her MA at the Courtauld, and PhD back in Cambridge, where she spent a very formative year as a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome. Since 2006, she has been based in Cambridge where she is a Fellow at Christ\u2019s College. \n\nThe author of seven formative books that have expanded my mind on the Ancient world, our thinking around gendered bodies, imperfect bodies, and the perception of women through these vessels, from Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present to the more recently published \u201cExposed: The Greek and Roman Body\u201d, Vout has been instrumental in pushing forwarding Classical research. Next year, she will curate a major exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum \n\nBut the reason why we are speaking with Carrie Vout today is because of how her research challenges the ideal forms of the Greek and Roman body. Whereas a body cast in marble or bronze sitting atop a pedestal might be the template that we have \u2013 and one that European painters have so often perpetuated through idealised portrayals of men and women \u2013 Vout argues this is a lie, and that ancient bodies were in fact anxious, ailing, imperfect, diverse, and in turn, much more like us than we might at first glean.\n\nCARRIE'S BOOKS: \nhttps://www.waterstones.com/book/exposed/caroline-vout/9781788162906\n\nhttps://www.waterstones.com/book/classical-art/caroline-vout/9780691177038\n\nhttps://www.waterstones.com/book/sex-on-show/caroline-vout/9780714122786\n\n--\n\nTHIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION:\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/famm.mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037\n\nENJOY!!!\n\nFollow us:\nKaty Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel\nSound editing by Nada Smiljanic\nMusic by Ben Wetherfield\n\nhttps://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/