Contents:
- WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- HOW ROMAN EMPEROR HADRIAN’S GAY LOVER BEME A GOD
WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
Historil Views of Homosexualy: Roman EmpireThomas K. Fragment of an Attic cup showg homosexual terurse, 550-525BCE Collectn the Louvre Mm. 1978 saw the publitn of Kenh Dover’s book, Greek Homosexualy.
Homosexualy had been crimalised Bra jt a earlier. The photographs for Dover’s book had to be livered to the prter by hand, bee the post might have been tercepted unr Sectn 11 of the Post Office Act (1953), which banned sendg “cent or obscene prts” by Homosexualy is not a prehensive acunt of same-sex relatnships the Greek world. Hadrian may well have been gay ( the morn sense of beg only attracted to other men).
HOW ROMAN EMPEROR HADRIAN’S GAY LOVER BEME A GOD
The ia of ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ did not yet exist - what mattered was to be sexually domant we know om documents that the Londium of Hadrian’s time was a slave-owng society, sharg the same valu as cizens throughout the Roman empire, we n be sure that same-sex relatnships were normal. In honour of LGBTQIA+ history month, Ancient History alumni Ollie Burns tak a closer look at the social, polil, and cultural implitns of homosexualy ancient Rome. Trigger Warng: sexual vlence, homophobia, paedophilia, nudy.
The prentatn and perceptn of homosexualy the Roman world was vastly different than how is today, and giv an example of how homosexualy has been libly lked wh munitns of power and thory antiquy. The Lat language has no word for eher heterosexual or homosexual, and stead partners a sexual relatnship would be prented as eher active, synonymo wh masculy, or passive and therefore, feme, regardls of the genr of the dividuals volved.
Freeborn male Romans had the civil liberty to do as they pleased when me to sexual activy, and as such, the ncept of a Roman man engagg homosexual sex was no way ntroversial or taboo to the Romans, as long as fell wh certa parameters.