The Truth About the Roman Orgy (And More!)
The Ancients
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The Importance of Stories of Sexual Excess in Antiquity
These stories, they field erotic discourse in antiquity and then also down through the ages too. Figures like tiberius on the isle of capri, nero heliagabolus all become particularly associated with ideas of sexual liberation. They get picked up because the descriptions of what is happening are often quite complicated and hard to work out. So you find in stories of prostitutes collected in dictionaries and grammars, as well as some moral sermons and ponographic writings.
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