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Information supplied on the sexual deviations of various Emperors by ancient writers , especially biographers such as Suetonius , is usually conveniently dismissed as nothing more substantial than denigratory gossip .
Information supplied on the sexual deviations of various Emperors by ancient writers , especially biographers such as Suetonius , is usually conveniently dismissed as nothing more substantial than denigratory gossip .
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As we have abundantly shown , in the Greco - Roman world of the second century such a relationship and such terms had come to have definite sexual implications , as did the word eros for love . Among the contemporary pagan writers ...
As we have abundantly shown , in the Greco - Roman world of the second century such a relationship and such terms had come to have definite sexual implications , as did the word eros for love . Among the contemporary pagan writers ...
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Why should he then have withheld himself from sexual expression of his burning feelings for someone whose physical beauty alone , when transmitted to posterity even through the medium of frigid marble , has so often been experienced as ...
Why should he then have withheld himself from sexual expression of his burning feelings for someone whose physical beauty alone , when transmitted to posterity even through the medium of frigid marble , has so often been experienced as ...
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Scandal of the centuries | 1 |
Antinous the young Greek c 11023 | 15 |
Hadrian the Roman Emperor 76123 | 33 |
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