Sexo Y Poder En Roma by Paul Veyne
An incisive exploration of how Roman sexual practices were governed by status, hierarchy, and dominance rather than modern ideas of personal identity. It highlights the central divide between active and passive roles, granting male citizens broad license with slaves and prostitutes while condemning freeborn male passivity and tightly policing female chastity. Drawing on legal sources, literature, and epigraphy, it examines marriage, adultery, prostitution, pederasty, and obscenity as mechanisms that reinforced civic order and social ranking, including the impact of Augustan moral legislation. The result is a portrait of a world where sex functioned as a public language of power more than a private sphere of intimacy.
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