Power and Eroticism in Imperial RomeThe relationships between Roman emperors and their objects of desire, male and female, are well attested. The salacious nature of this evidence means that it is often omitted from mainstream historical inquiry. Yet that is to underestimate the importance of 'gossip' and the act of thinking about an emperor's private life. In this book Dr Vout takes the reader from Rome, and Martial's and Statius' poems about Domitian's favourite eunuch, to Antioch and dialogues in praise of Lucius Verus' mistress, to the widespread visual commemoration and cult of Hadrian's young male lover, Antinous. She explores not the relationships themselves but rather the implications of their description. Such description provides a template with which to examine the relationship between emperor and subject, gods and mortals, East and West, centre and periphery. It thus contributes to the fields of imperial representation, court society and the imperial cult. |
Contents
Section 1 | 27 |
Section 2 | 31 |
Section 3 | 33 |
Section 4 | 38 |
Section 5 | 52 |
Section 6 | 58 |
Section 7 | 64 |
Section 8 | 69 |
Section 14 | 82 |
Section 15 | 83 |
Section 16 | 90 |
Section 17 | 97 |
Section 18 | 98 |
Section 19 | 101 |
Section 20 | 113 |
Section 21 | 167 |
Section 9 | 73 |
Section 10 | 77 |
Section 11 | 79 |
Section 12 | 80 |
Section 13 | 81 |
Section 22 | 175 |
Section 23 | 200 |
Section 24 | 217 |
Section 25 | 218 |
Section 26 | 226 |
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