Sex in Ancient Rome
The Ancients
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Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome - Medical Texts
One of our keen literary sources, shall we say, for understanding sex and sexuality in ancient rome can be medical texts discussing the subject. The medical texts are quite interesting, because if you look at the kind of hipocratic ones, which are osee greek, they have real case studies. So aside from reading biographies and histories, these are ordinary people in ordinary situations. And seranus writes a whole treatise on genicology, which has sn't great lines but he's very interesting for that kind of thing.
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