Pip Rasmussen

It's called Two Women Sitting in the Shade of a Sycamore Tree.

And it's basically from 1279 to 1213 BC.

And it describes a romantic scene on the Nile River.

which is kind of homoerotic or has queer undertones.

Yeah.

It's basically describing like true women who have a sacred and emotional love and bond.

Yeah.

And the same is found in ancient Greece as well.

So let's talk about ancient Greece.

So I think when we think about ancient Greece, we think about like gods and mythology and we think about passion and tragedy.

And I think that's a lot of where we'll talk about it, but a lot of the ideas of romantic love actually stemmed from, which is so fascinating because something that we've spoken about before on The Hookup is the story around the symposium, which was something that Plato wrote.

And that idea that there was –

people were two people joined together so there was like I know these these humans that had four arms four legs yeah two faces one head yeah and at some point they got split in half and this is where the idea of you couldn't be a whole person until you found your other half actually stems from yeah so I think it's wild because that is an idea that we talk about so often now

In today's Western society, right, like I found my other half, like I can't believe I'm marrying my other half.

And it's so wild to think that it came from this story in ancient Greece.

Pip, I cannot believe that this existed in ancient times.

Can you please tell everyone about some of the chapters on this like a guide to love?

Because honestly, it's not far from what we probably get

Back then.

How to keep her interested.