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Although Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, also known as Caligula, only ruled Rome for four years between 37 AD and 41 AD, his footprints are all over Western civilization.
Wedding ceremonies reportedly included dowry and the wearing of a wedding veil. Naturally, there were cases of using the power and dominant position of superiors over privates. Whatever the circumstances, a grief-stricken Hadrian had Antinous turned into a God.
His cult centred on a new city called Antinoopolis whose impressive ruins lasted into the 19th century until locals ground up the remaining buildings for cement production.
But with somebody of equivalent social rank, they needed to be sure that Catullus hadn’t been pressured into it. It was also important for a Roman to have sex with a man who was in some way socially inferior (younger, lower class, slave). The attack on Caesar stemmed from the fact that he was supposedly the passive party during intercourse.
Sex between the soldiers disturbed the order and moral framework of camp life. He directed much of his attention to ambitious construction projects and luxurious dwellings for himself, and he initiated the construction of two aqueducts in Rome: the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus. As a young man, the future dictator of Rome spent time on military campaigns in Asia Minor (modern Turkey).
Performance is at 8 p.m. The emperor was to say then: “I am glad to be called the mistress, wife, queen of Hierocles.”
Greco-Roman phallus-shaped amulets – the so-called fascinus.
Generally, any coercion or rape was severely punished under Roman law.
In turn, sex with a slave of another citizen was considered a form of theft or illegal appropriation of property.
Seneca the Elder cites a hypothetical case of a teenager (adulescens) being raped by his 10 peers. There are few surviving sources about the reign of Caligula, though he is described as a noble and moderate emperor during the first six months of his rule.
Gay sex for pagan Romans was a fact of life. But Augustus may have been over-compensating for the swirl of LGBT related rumours and accusations that dogged his youth.
Augustus was known as Octavian before becoming emperor. Sadly the Praetorian Guard turned on the young emperor and assassinated him.
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Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August 12 – 24 January 41), better known by his nickname Caligula, was Roman emperor from AD 37 until his assassination in AD 41.
Antinous born a slave, freed, and lived as the lover of Hadrian. According to the Romans, the necessary attribute for sexual intercourse was the phallus, which lesbians had to replace with accessories in the form of today’s dildos. No sources say whether Sporus reciprocated Nero’s feelings. Emperor Vitellius always prepared an exclusive menu for his young lovers, aimed at stimulating the imagination and potency: wild boar liver, pheasant brain, flamingo tongues and dandelion moray.
The “active” person most often exposed himself to flogging and expulsion from the legions, while the “passive” person was sentenced to death – according to Polybius by beating (fustuarium).
Emperor Octavian Augustus (27 BCE – 14 CE) introduced a legionary marriage ban – a law that was in force for almost two centuries.