Contents:
- WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
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 REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
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. As a rult of this, men were ee to engage homosexual relatnships, so long as they were the active partner wh the perative power, and the submissive partner was nsired to be lower society than them.