![]() ![]() It has often been suggested – probably rightly – that they were lovers. In 80 BCE a young Gaius Julius Caesar arrived at the court of Nicomedes IV, king of Bithynia (North-West Asia Minor), Caesar was sent there on the orders of praetor Marcus Minucius Termus from Asia to get the Bithynian fleet to help with the siege of the city of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. It is worth presenting a controversial excerpt from Caesar’s life. Generally speaking, in civilian life, homosexuality was rather rare and treated reluctantly (as evidenced by references in source texts, which noted outrageous, characteristic and infrequent things), and such relations were tolerated, as I mentioned if the Roman citizen was an active party (in otherwise, Roman blood was contaminated. This is evidenced by the sources that mention a greater number of executions and corporal punishment imposed on free citizens of Rome. For example, it was immoral to have sex with another citizen’s free-born wife, his daughter by marriage, his underage son, or the man himself.ĭuring imperial times, the fear of losing political freedom and submitting to power to the emperor led to an increase in the frequency of free-born men assuming a passive position during sex. It did not matter with which gender the Roman indulged in until he did not exceed certain social norms. Outside of marriage, a man could have sex with slaves (or slaves), prostitutes (who were usually slaves) and the so-called infames (the restricted man). Both women and young men were perceived as natural objects of desire. It was socially acceptable for a free-born Roman to have sex with a woman or a man assuming a dominant role. Roman cup showing a homosexual sex scene. Rome’s contacts with Africa and Far East. ![]()
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