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All Roads Lead To Rome

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Kyle

The people of the Victorian era were a group that lived in an exciting time of social development, with psychology emerging and new schools of thoughts being born from Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Thomas Brown amongst others. However, the … Continue reading →

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Tibullus vs Theognis

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Lexi

This week’s readings brought up Tibullus’ love poems which have a lot of similarities and differences with Theognis’ verses, that ultimately show how same sex desires were portrayed in Rome and Greece. Some of the similarities that can be seen … Continue reading →

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Same-sex desire and social class: assertions of power in the Renaissance

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Abby L

In the Roman Empire, sexuality was not labeled as homosexual or heterosexual. Instead, the Romans regarded sex as more of a display of gender roles. There was the penetrator and the penetrated, and often the penetrator used sex as an … Continue reading →

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