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Sexuality in ancient Rome. Satyr and nymph, mythological symbols of sexuality on a mosaic from a bedroom in Pompeii. Sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome are indicated by art, literature, and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such as erotic artifacts and architecture.
Homosexuality in ancient Rome often differs markedly from the contemporary West. Latin lacks words that would precisely translate "homosexual" and "heterosexual". The primary dichotomy of ancient Roman sexuality was active / dominant / masculine and passive / submissive / feminine.
Jun 25, 2021 · Among the most famous committed same-sex relationships in Rome was that between the Roman emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 CE) and his young lover Antinous (l. c. 110-130 CE), but there are many others recorded and, no doubt, many more among people no historian ever cared to write about.
Sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome are indicated by art, literature, and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such as erotic artifacts and architecture.
Feb 13, 2019 · Instead of today's gender orientation, ancient Roman (and Greek) sexuality can be dichotomized as passive and active. The socially preferred behavior of a male was active; the passive part aligned with the female.
However, Craig Williams’s Roman Homosexuality (1999; second, revised edition, 2010), marked an important turning point in the study of ancient sexuality, emphasizing significant divergences between ancient Greece and Rome by analysing a variety of respects in which Roman sexual ideas, ideals, and practices are culturally specific and distinct ...
Traditionally, scholars have approached Roman sexuality using cat-egories of sexual ethics drawn from contemporary, Western society. In this book Dr Langlands seeks to move away from these towards.
AS ITS TITLE, Roman Sexualities, indicates, this set of twelve essays by recognized and emerging authorities on ancient Rome is more focused, in both scope and objectives, than were earlier treatments of a comprehensive “Greco-Roman” sexual ideology.
This article explores the most recurrent themes to emerge from the recent scholarship on Roman sexuality. It discusses the sharp division, and clear double standard, between men and women as sexual subjects; the Roman sexual order; and Musonius's views about the ongoing conundrum concerning women, sexuality, and subjectivity.
It is common in the study of ancient sexuality to find statements of the follow ing two classes: First, historians draw a clear line between culture and biology. "Sex is about penises and vulvas (or things in between), and gender is about what we do with them; sex is about biology, gender is about culture...."4
