New and emerging ideas on the subject of sex, gender, and sexuality in the Roman provinces.
Tag: ancient sexuality
Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome
Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.
Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer
In the cradle of human civilisation, individuals were living lives outside of the gender binary.
Egyptology, sexual science and modern gender identity
How does Egyptology figure into our contemporary debates about gender identity?
From Shame to Sin: Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity
With the new religion came new attitudes to sexual behaviour and morality
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