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REPRENTATNS OF THE CAS ROMAN ART: EVINCE OF "GAY" SUBCULTURE?

Rape and regulatnHomosexualy the legnsLbian loveThe time of ChristianyDurg the time of the Republic, Roman cizens had the right (libertas) to protect their bodi om physil ercn, cludg both rporal punishment and sexual vlence. Roman cup showg a homosexual sex was socially acceptable for a ee-born Roman to have sex wh a woman or a man assumg a domant role. Generally speakg, civilian life, homosexualy was rather rare and treated reluctantly (as evinced by referenc source texts, which noted outrageo, characteristic and equent thgs), and such relatns were tolerated, as I mentned if the Roman cizen was an active party ( otherwise, Roman blood was ntamated.

Homosexualy among men was tolerated and accepted but was fely not the if any high-rankg ee-born Roman allowed himself to be passive durg terurse, he risked mockery. However, Caligula, wh the nsistent characteristic of the mentally ill, although he himself is strongly bisexual, orred all homosexuals to be sent to hard labour Sardia one day.

Roman dictator Luci Sulla was not ee om homosexualy, too, he always took wh him, for every war and expedn, a host of his young lover. Dpe the fact that the Romans viewed marriage as a heterosexual relatnship for procreatn, the early Empire, some homosexual upl managed to get married the pany of iends.

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