The Truth About the Roman Orgy (And More!)
The Ancients
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Mythology and the Roman Empire
The stories of the roman emperors are seen as an example of ancient Rome being this hub of sexual fantasy, of sexual excess. But alister argues that they're actually a series of exclusions about why women are pushed out of the public sphere. And one gets at perhaps no more strongly than ifat the stories of roman empresss, because these stories are prod precisely to besmirch emperors," he says.
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