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Rome - BBc2

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cod · 02/11/2005 21:50

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katzguk · 03/11/2005 20:48

re bisexuality - DH's says that a later emperor is commented on being solely heterosexual, showing that it was unusual to not swing both ways. in sex romans was divided into givers and takers not homosexuality or heterosexuality.

monkeytrousers · 04/11/2005 08:18

Okay, I accept there may have been a few shaven havens but definitely no landing strips.

Marina · 04/11/2005 09:14

Big source, as used by Robert Graves for I Claudius etc, was Suetonius The Twelve Caesars. He specialised in salacious gossip and it is a really cracking read in Graves' own translation (Penguin Classics). There is loads of stuff in there about Julius Caesar's notorious bisexuality, Tiberius' paedophile tendencies etc, as Katzguk says, it was quite unusual for patrician men to be what we would think of as straight nowaways. Maybe because polite Roman society aspired to Greek standards of culture and learning, and therefore adopted Grecian mores about homosexual relations.
I did find Rome a bit but I suppose it is good to see some good old class civ on the telly...

monkeytrousers · 05/11/2005 06:47

Caligula! You made it!

monkeytrousers · 05/11/2005 16:24

Does that blow your cover?

(What was that fabulous joke you made some weeks ago - a play on words? It's making me giggle even though I can't remember it)

gingerbear · 10/11/2005 15:06

Watched the 2nd episode last night.
It was rubbish
Don't think I will carry on for another 9 episodes.

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