In bed with the Romans / Paul Chrystal.

Our popular impression of the Roman Empire is of a seamy, salacious world in which intrigue and sexual licence were ubiquitous at the highest levels of state. Here we explore that familiar elite world as well as the role sex played in broader Roman society from the late Republic to the third century...

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Main Author: Chrystal, Paul (Author)
Language:English
Published: Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2015.
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Physical Description:285 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
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