@Rasterman @Hoss “Cyber Santa” Delgado and part 2 of 2:
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Roman ruins reveal how emperors used winemaking in a lavish power play
Historians insist that Rome itself isn’t just “guy stuff,” as some men in videos called it.
“Ancient Rome was of course patriarchal and violent,” Lewis Webb, a historian of ancient Rome at Oxford University, wrote in an email. “But it was also a diverse place: there were numerous forms of masculinity, women could have agency and power, and there were multiple gender expressions and identities, as well as various sexualities.”
Historian Cornwell also points out that Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus, or Elagabalus, the Roman emperor from A.D. 218 to 222, is frequently presented in ancient sources as experimenting with cross-dressing.
“Even when you get to some of the emperors, they’re doing weird and wacky things by modern conceptions of what a man is,” Cornwell points out. There were also female gladiators. “The Romans do have a clear sense of what is masculine and feminine, but within that there is an awful lot of flexibility. Which sometimes we often forget about,” she said.
And she herself, of course, thinks about the Roman Empire quite a lot — on a daily basis, as it is her chosen field. Her partner recently told her he thinks about it “1.6 times a month.”
So what is a healthy amount?
“Goodness,” she said, laughing. “I’d say it really depends on what you’re thinking about.”
CORRECTION
A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the time period during which Roman emperor Elagabalus reigned. He was emperor from A.D. 218 to 222, not 218 to 222 B.C. This article has been corrected.
>there were multiple gender expressions and identities
Please eat a bullet, worthless columnist.
@Hoss “Cyber Santa” Delgado @☃️merry chrimist☃️ @Rasterman just expressing perversion and sick taste, nothing more. These faggots really never know what they're dealing with. I hope they all get eaten alive.
@Hoss “Cyber Santa” Delgado @Rasterman @☃️merry chrimist☃️ At least the people doing that knew they were evil, at least. That's usually the way. They're aware they're doing evil things. The most horrible sin of the sick American mind, is they think these things are secretly good. I hope they all get eaten by demons. I don't think I have to be uncertain about this outcome.
No one is perfect, but damn, I hope these people get justice.
The writer really skirts over the fact that Elagabalus was completely out of his fucking mind, everyone in the entire empire knew he was out of his fucking mind, and eventually the Praetorian guard stabbed him and his mother to death because everybody just fucking hated him.
@Hoss “Cyber Santa” Delgado @☃️merry chrimist☃️ @Rasterman Funny how all those historians "evidence" are from the last days of Rome ( around 200 to 300 AD ) when it was just a shell of its former self and decadence had already set in.
They always bring up Elagabalus, who was probably one of the most hated emperors of all time. He made Nero look like a level-headed prude.
Never heard of them.
When did the Roman’s do the homo thing? End of their civilization or throughout?
They got the homo thing from the Greeks.
"Greeks invented sex, the Romans found out you could also have it with women"
my feeling is christianity undid the romans, i mean if you are just turning the other cheek how can you maintain an empire?
All the longest empires in history have all been Christian, including the longer half of the Roman empire, which was governed from Constantinople until almost 1500 AD.
i heard the longest empire was islam or romans
i think we are about to be schooled on that by aliens tho
Can someone answer the Roman homo question please.
Post your real face and I’ll think about it.
It was the jews. The jews gayed up Rome. It wasn’t white dudes.
@ToxicFemininity @☃️merry chrimist☃️ @Cuddly Lovely Sassy Motherfucker :verified: - ht... @Moved @StephanGuy @Hoss “Cyber Santa” Delgado Homosexuality was known to exist but nothing to be proud of and a reason for ridicule. I've studied the republic more than the empire, but have yet to see any source where homosexuality is shown even in a neutral light, let alone positive.
As Rome decayed, you'd see more signs of decadence, like sexual perverts, wasteful spending or rights for women. :pepe_feelsweird:
fiat must of played a key role, its theft by deception, fraud, states go really off the rails when they do that but then also use the stolen money to do more damage ala the usa rite now in ukraine and many other places
Why do you pervert columnists have to make everything about gender and cross dressing?
You’re sick fucks.
It's the only thing they know how to do. Everything must be about trannies now, the most important class of people that human society has ever known.
@☃️merry chrimist☃️ @Hoss “Cyber Santa” Delgado >ctrl-A ctrl-C the article text before the paywall loads
That's hilarious. Gonna have to try it. The jewish moneymaking scheme where they charge you to read their lies... defeated by two basic commands. :bluedoggo:
>But why does there seem to be a gender divide in who is daydreaming about ancient Rome today?
Gee, I don't know, maybe because women are self-absorbed and can't think about anything that's not themselves? :pepedisappoint:
Their expert explanations are incredibly retarded; but then again, they asked women historians.
>there were multiple gender expressions and identities, as well as various sexualities.
They were also regarded as limp-wristed faggots and the object of ridicule.
The article inevitable takes the fascination about Rome to how many sexual deviants and perversions could there be. Journos can't help themselves.
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