Un-Roman Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers

By Tatiana Ivleva Ancient World, Author Interviews

New and emerging ideas on the subject of sex, gender, and sexuality in the Roman provinces.

The Brothel of Pompeii

By Sarah Levin-Richardson Ancient World, Author Interviews

Pompeii’s brothel is the only verifiable brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity.

Queering Hippolytus: Asexuality and Ancient Greece

By Chris Mowat Ancient World

Using the Greek myth of Hippolytus to do a little modern myth-busting about asexuality.

Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome

By GVGK Tang Ancient World, Trans

Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.

Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer

By Cheryl Morgan Ancient World

In the cradle of human civilisation, individuals were living lives outside of the gender binary.

Egyptology, sexual science and modern gender identity

By Jennifer Grove Ancient World, LGBTQ

How does Egyptology figure into our contemporary debates about gender identity?

From Shame to Sin: Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity

By Katherine Harvey Ancient World, Author Interviews, Religion and Sexuality

With the new religion came new attitudes to sexual behaviour and morality