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Originally Posted by HarryT
Oh, no, the homosexuality thing was, as you say, simply a matter of Victorian social taboos. Entirely normal, as you rightly point out, in both Greek and Roman society.
Martial was essentially what we'd call today a "gossip columnists", who wrote witty and exceedingly insulting epigrams (short poems) about the leading lights in the high society of late 1st-century Rome. Here's a translation of the rude ones, which I can't possibly post here  :
https://www.well.com/~aquarius/martial.htm |
I wouldn't want those updated.