From Shame to Sin : : The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity / / Kyle Harper.
When Rome was at its height, an emperor’s male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four centuries later, a Roman emperor commanded th...
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