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Non-Standard Roman Male Sexuality
http://ancienthistory.about.com/
library/weekly/aa011500a.htm
Fairly academic article on the different ways that maleness
was interpreted in ancient Rome.
Feminae Romanae: The women of ancient Rome
http://web.mac.com/heraklia/Dominae/
From the empress to her freedwoman, the good wife to the prostitute,
the midwife to the scholar, this extremely well-designed site presents
an introduction to the history of the women of ancient Rome.
Household Sex
www.roman-empire.net/society
/soc-household.html
Sex was plentiful in Roman times, but rarely between husband and wife.
Weddings, marriages and divorce
www.pbs.org/empires/romans
/empire/weddings.html
Describes how marriages in ancient Rome were arrangements between families but, despite this, were surprisingly modern.
The Story of Antinous and Hadrian
www.chariotswheels.com/html
/gay/antinous.htm
The classic love affair between the emperor Hadrian and his young
male lover who was deified as a Roman god on his death, at Hadrian's insistence.
Books
From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins: Sex and category in Roman religion
by Ariadne Staples (Routledge, 1997) £50
By chronicling the role of women in Roman society, from humble priestesses
to aristocrats such as Agrippina and Livia, this book argues that the
ritual roles played out by women were vital in defining them sexually
and politically.
A History of Orgies by Burgo Partridge (Prion, June 2002) £10
Explores the social phenomenon of the orgy starting with the Greeks, whose
celebration of Bacchus was continued, in kind, by the Romans who imported
brutalities into their orgiastic celebrations.
Roman Sexualities edited by Judith P Hallet and Marilyn B Skinner
(Princeton University Press, 1998) £15.95
A collection of essays that examines the hierarchy of power reflected
in most Roman sexual relations, where noblemen acted as the penetrators,
and women, boys and slaves the penetrated.
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