Hello.I am Priapus, a researcher of erotic literature.Today's theme is one of the greatest legacies that ancient Rome left to human life: "the baths (thermae)" and the daily life of sexuality that ...

Around 186 BCE, a former slave turned courtesan named Hispala Faecenia fell in love with a young upper-middle class Roman man named Publius Aebutius. Then she learned his mother and stepfather planned ...

In the latest news that will all but convince you the end is nigh, there’s a TikTok influencer out there trying to convince the interwebs that the ancient Roman civilization never existed, and is ...

Ancient Rome is very used to being looked at. We see versions of it everywhere: in films and TV series, in school syllabi, ...

If you’ve been on TikTok in the past week, you’ve surely come across the Roman Empire trend, where women ask their male partners how often they think about the ancient society, only for most (cis ...

Last year, the internet resounded with chatter about how much American and British men ponder the subject of ancient Rome. Women started asking their husbands and boyfriends, “Honey, how often do you ...

The voices that have endured from the Classical period describe what life was like in ancient Rome for their authors, who were literate and educated elites. But what about everyone else? One way to ...