The great erotic ideal for Roman men in this period is less girls than boys who look like girls. So the quintessence of the party are called delicati, so they would wear makeup and have their hair done in feminine styles. And yet that all sounds very kind of physical and sexual. And yet there are love stories in this period.
At its peak, the Roman Empire was perhaps the greatest civilisation in history. But like so many cultures before and after it, it declined and finally ended.
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